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A 5 page paper arguing that the purpose of this fable was to poke fun at British criticism of U.S. policy--but also with a minute postcript agreement with that assessment by Mark Twain. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: D0_Yankee.rtf
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privilege, with Hank Morgan using his Yankee know-how to slaughter the Knights of the Round Table" (Anspaugh 32(7)). She quotes from the book "Within ten short minutes after we
had opened fire, armed resistance was totally annihilated, the campaign was ended, we fifty four were masters of England! Twenty-five thousand men lay dead around us" (Anspaugh 32(7)).
In the character of Hank Morgan, Twain brings this about. Hank is a Connecticut Yankee working in a munitions factory near Hartford. When
he is hit on the head by a follow worker, he awakens in the early part of the sixth century, A.D. and is captured by Sir Kay of King Arthurs
Court and taken to Camelot. Hank, upon hearing of the knights exploits and trying to avoid being burned at the stake, remembers from history that there will be a
total eclipse of the sun on June 21st. "He threatens to blot out the sun if he is harmed. When the eclipse occurs, King Arthur promises the Yankee the
second place in the kingdom (next to himself) if the "magician" Hank will bring back the sun." (Twain 1963) Merlin vows revenge
on "the Boss," as everyone begins to call Hank, who begins reorganizing the kingdom. Hank explodes Merlins castle and is heralded as the kingdoms magician.
"With the help of a young man named Clarence, the Yankee begins to organize schools and factories to train workers for what he visualizes will
be a superior society - perhaps a society like that in the late nineteenth century, but with less materialism and more dedication to intellectual and spiritual progress." (Twain 1963)
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