“Carnivalization in The Journey to the West: Cultural Dialogism in Fictional Festivity”, is an essay written by college professor, Zuyan Zhou explaining how Monkey and the other characters and stories of The Journey to the West share many parallels with Western carnival in “season, duration, form and influence”(69). While analyzing the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Zhou comes to many conclusions regarding the idea that The Journey to the West, a well known Chinese novel, is a representation of carnivalistic style and energy. He claims that the story of Monkey’s journey is a representation of many aspects of the carnival celebration, he states that Monkey and Pigsy are characters created with the vision of the clown and fool from the carnival masqueraded dances. He…