Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Occasional Series of Ideas for Papers on John Kennedy Toole, Part 5b

More Milton

Another theme that relates Milton to Confederacy is New Orleans Carnival. The first major Krewe of Carnival is the Krewe of Comus. It is named after a court masque that Milton wrote as a young man. In that masque, Comus uses magic to turn people into monsters who are half-human, half-beast. Those transformed people cannot see their beastliness, and see themselves as god-like.

Thesis: Compare Milton's Comus masque, New Orleans Carnival, and Ignatius in Confederacy.

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