Literature and carnival laughter

Abstract

Carnival laughter, an ancient practice in all human cultures, is of great importance in literary writing and oral speeches; In the head, we try to look at this problem through the Arab writer Al-Jahiz and the Russian critic Bakhtin, to see the significance of laughter at the level of individual and collective practice.

Although the attitude of world cultures differs from laughter, its psychological and ideological aims are almost identical. It is the tool of the downtrodden groups to condemn the manifestations of injustice that affect them, and it is the tool through which they express their condemnation of exclusion. It refers to the signs of change in the social status of people, and their lifestyles. As for the noble society, it is their tool to despise those below and keep them in eternal altruism, besides being a way to get rid of psychological pressures and negative thoughts that are entrenched in individual consciousness due to the frustrations of material reality. It is also an instrument of communication between selves; Laughter, like a frowning look, is a silent language for exchanging encrypted messages between individuals. Laughter, then, is a human language. We seek to explain its rhetorical manifestations and its ideological and psychological outcomes….