\Those who study history note how human beings conquer other nations and force their cultural beliefs upon them. The victors impose their ideals like religion onto the defeated, abolish their ways of thinking to be replaced by those of the conquerors. Human nature proves thus: humans wish to live in an environment which holds beliefs and mindsets similar to our own. If not, they begin to feel uncomfortable for fear of displacement. The two books Alice in
Wonderland and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court explore this desire to alter one’s surroundings. In Alice, Alice is thrust into a world of madness and confusion, which is the polar opposite of everything she knows from Victorian England. Similarly, in A Connecticut Yankee,
Hank Morgan finds Arthurian …show more content…
Hank compares the knights to foolish and dim-witted children. This opinion is what allows him the audacity to begin his process of remodeling his country. In Hank’s hometown of industrialized Connecticut, the country is filled with thinkers, innovaters, and inventors. However, he sees Camelot as a country filled with fools who cannot even function properly to rule a country. Therefore, Hank decides to change Camelot, and remake it in the image of his hometown. Hank uses his advanced technological knowledge to assert his power among the people, and uses it to model Camelot similarly to Nineteenth-Century America. One of Hank’s main obstacles in becoming the boss is Merlin. The people fear Merlin, and Hank notices this when speaking to Clarence about reasons he should not escape:
He hesitated, pulled one way by desire [...] he stole to the door and peeped out [...] crept close [...] and told me his fearful news in a whisper, and with all the cowering apprehension of one who was venturing upon awful ground and speaking of things whose very mention might be freighted with death” (27).
Being very observant, Hank picks up on Clarence’s behavior, he notices that the people
Wonderland and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court explore this desire to alter one’s surroundings. In Alice, Alice is thrust into a world of madness and confusion, which is the polar opposite of everything she knows from Victorian England. Similarly, in A Connecticut Yankee,
Hank Morgan finds Arthurian …show more content…
Hank compares the knights to foolish and dim-witted children. This opinion is what allows him the audacity to begin his process of remodeling his country. In Hank’s hometown of industrialized Connecticut, the country is filled with thinkers, innovaters, and inventors. However, he sees Camelot as a country filled with fools who cannot even function properly to rule a country. Therefore, Hank decides to change Camelot, and remake it in the image of his hometown. Hank uses his advanced technological knowledge to assert his power among the people, and uses it to model Camelot similarly to Nineteenth-Century America. One of Hank’s main obstacles in becoming the boss is Merlin. The people fear Merlin, and Hank notices this when speaking to Clarence about reasons he should not escape:
He hesitated, pulled one way by desire [...] he stole to the door and peeped out [...] crept close [...] and told me his fearful news in a whisper, and with all the cowering apprehension of one who was venturing upon awful ground and speaking of things whose very mention might be freighted with death” (27).
Being very observant, Hank picks up on Clarence’s behavior, he notices that the people