clown masks

[FreddysFingers]

Also consider this: clowns do usually portray positive feelings when entertaining a crowd, but "clown" is a job like any other, and sometimes we need to bring certain feelings that are unlike us to our jobs. A clown, for instance, needs to act; but unlike just actors, clowns bring an entire false persona, usually centering around a single mood to themselves as opposed to simply playing a role. With that in mind one has to wonder what clowns are like off-stage; what real feelings they have been putting aside in favor of an entirely happy facade. What is the psychology of a joy-bringer offstage? How has the job itself affected them? For all we know the nice guy posing and posturing in front of us could be absolutely twisted when he takes off his makeup (if he even does when he goes offstage), and for all we know it could be the mentality of his job that twisted him.

Briggs, I have to say that was a great psychological analysis of the clown mythology. However, I do think that the thought of a clown being a twisted person inside is very ironic... back to which I was stating. I also think that some of this has to do with history itself, specifically Gacy. He was a clown that murdered kids on his off time.