Fourth World Of Clowns

Arriving at Burgers Park just before 10:00 on Saturday the 16th of August 2014, there was an air of anticipation hanging around the park. Children were already playing in the park creating an atmosphere of innocence and hope. The crowd was gathering in the middle of the park. Everywhere were people dressed in bright clothing and clown makeup. Soon we followed everyone to the street where even more groups were gathering. School children in matching outfits excitedly huddling together in anticipation of the march, men wearing large paper maché heads and clowns everywhere. The smiling faces of the crowd was definitely hiding the seriousness of what the march was all about. The beginning of the march was delayed, but that didn't stop the children from performing they're choreographed line dances. A pickup truck with mounted speakers soon started playing loud music to fill the time. Everywhere

She also refers to Courlander's 1971 text, The fourth world of the Hopis, which states that the most serious people make the best clowns. Another analysis of the meaning of clowns was done by Morawetz (2001: 7-58). He first states that a clowns objective purpose is unprompted fun! He found that a clown is a mix between the childishness found in children and the cunning of mockery. This mix is there to translate that all the seriousness of adult life should be taken more lightly. He then delves deeper by looking closely into the subjective meaning. The meaning of clowns then changes to something much more sinister. Morawetz places the different clowns at two opposing poles of emotion. On the one side is mania and on the other depression. A manic clown being more outrageous and a hobo clown being sad or self-defeating. He thus identifies clowns as representing a sort of psychological disturbance in