In 1889 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under the pen name Mark Twain, wrote a satiric novel entitled A Connecticut Yankee in office Arthurs Court. Painted in this novel is a fictional, much times comical, look at sixth century Arthurian culture. Twain gives an exaggerated description of the church to not scarcely satirize previous Arthurian works, but to give a social commentary of 19th century American Protestantism.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, (CYKACÂ), is a write up of a man, Hank Morgan, who is from the 19th century and lives in Connecticut. He bumped his gaffer one day and woke up to find himself in King Arthurs Court. After realizing where he was, he then realized that he was going to be put to death for reasons as miserable as he found the lot to be. Once he finagled his way out of death by establishing himself as a powerful magician, he saw and seized the opportunity to gain power. He even went as far-off as to set up an underground man factory and recreated the same industry that was universal from his 19th century world.
Hank had established himself in power, equal to the king. The perform though maintained a supreme power that far outweighed not only Hanks power, but the kings as well.
Therein lie the basis for Twains depiction of a nobility and Church that rule and demeaned a nation of ignorant, naïve, and mindless class of people that Hank refers to as nothing but rabbits (53).
He sees the Church as an oppressor of the people, which does not allow them to know their own spirit or have their own pride. He sees the Church as slyness and resourceful, who knows more than one way to skin a guy wire ? or a nation (56). To him, the...
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