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Mark Twain (November 30th, 1835 – April 21, 1910) |
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"The pilgrims were human
beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long
and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and
they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they
didn't do as horses or cats or angle-worms would probably have done — turn
back and get at something profitable — no, anxious as they had before been
to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as forty times as anxious
now to see the place where it had used to be. There is no accounting for
human beings.” (A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court)  A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court was first published in 1889 and follows a 19th century Connecticut man, Hank Morgan who mysteriously wakes up to find that he has been transported back in time to England in the early 6th century. King Arthur is in power and he is at first bemused by the strangely dressed visitor, but Hank manages to use his knowledge to make the King belief he has great power. The majority of the novel works as a satire on the chivalry and romanticized ideas of the middle ages portraying the medieval people as very gullible. The novel is seen as transitional work for Twain as it starts with much of the humour of his earlier novels but ends with a much darker mood more in keeping with his later work. |
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Revised: November 17, 2009 . |
