“ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” follows the life of Henry Morgan, a gun maker, whom after a blow to the head, is transported to the 16th century. He is captured and sentenced to death. However, he has quick thinking, and uses “magic “to become second -in -command of the land. Morgan (now called The Boss) then attempts to improve the lives of the people with the technological enhancements of his time. Consequently, he ends up doing more harm than good. Morgan’s meddling illustrates that by disrupting the traditions of a land with modern technology disastrous unforeseen outcomes can result. In chapters twenty- two and twenty- three, “ The Boss” uses his magic to reinvigorate a dry well in a holy desert. He is then baffled when, even after they did not have water for twenty plus years they refused to bathe because of the superstition that the water was cursed by divine right.…show more content… Ironically, he becomes what he supposedly hates: a magician, someone much larger than life.
“ If everybody about here was so honestly and sincerely afraid of Merlin's pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to take advantage of such a state of things.”(Chapter 5)
The Boss, Morgan’s title of near- absolute power, abuses his position of authority in an effort to “ guide” those less advanced than him. His future knowledge enabled him to take advantage of an entire generation, enslaving them to his personal musings. In conclusion, Henry Morgan used the twisted, yet immature mantra of tradition as a platform for his personal ideals of a technological fairyland. His meddling with the natural progression of tradition to technology doomed a society. No mortal has the authority to impose his brave, new, world on any other
