Week 2 assignment

 In what ways does Goethe's portrayal of the Roman Carnival, in which members of different social classes and nationalities mix freely, challenge the apparent hegemony or dominance of Northern Europe?


Goethe's portrayal of the Roman Carnival, in which members of different social classes and nationalities mix freely, challenge the apparent hegemony or dominance of Northern Europe by thoroughly showing what is happening in Roman Carinival that can not be happening in Northern Europe: the abolition of social order. Goethe says that " the difference between the social orders seems to be abolished for the time being; everyone accosts everyone else, all good-naturedly accpt whatever happens to them, and the insolence humour"(Goethe 447). Compared to the Northern Europe where abolition of social order is not allow and might even lead to prosecution,  Roman Carnival makes people to take particular role and stick with that role whether or not if you are in high or low social order.