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A 4 page paper which examines how and why Hank Morgan is considered to be a buffoon in Mark Twain's novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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sense in terms of its validity. It is the story of one man, Hank Morgan and his amazing adventures with King Arthur and Merlin and many other ancient people. It
is a tale he is apparently telling modern day, because he was put to sleep for 13 centuries. His story is wild, and filled with impossible realities and it is
because of this that he is often seen as a buffoon. The following paper examines this tale by Twain, discussing how and why Hank is a buffoon.
Hank Morgan Hank Morgan is clearly a man who lives in his imagination. In this one could well say that he was mentally handicapped or literally quite insane. But, at
the same time there is a humor to the story that makes it incredibly entertaining and turns Hank from a mentally challenged man to a simple buffoon. This is seen
in his manner, his language, as well as he presumptuous nature. One critic indicates that for Hank life is something of a stage where he will entertain, a presumptuous
attitude. "When Hank Morgan arrives at Camelot he is immediately stripped naked, and soon led out into a kind of Arthurian equivalent to the Coliseum -- or a lynching:
he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned to death...As the
moon moves across the face of the sun, he goes from dying up there to being in a position to knock em dead" (Railton). In this we see that
he is so presumptuous that he believes he can convince these people to let him go. He does not honestly see the danger he is in. And, the fact that
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