The King of the Carnival could be a popular or even an unknown clown, like Pulcinella, Harlequin, Gargantua. The carefree, exuberant and obese figure of King Carnival is identified with sensuality, abundance, freedom of laughing and it competes against Lady-Lent, who is a grim, cold, bony figure and compresses all the religious restrictions of fast, simplicity and abstinence.