King Arthur's Court Reform

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After reading Twain's book, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” (CYKAC), it’s told very clearly by Twain that the political and social problems are things that will plague our country and world forever. These issues/reforms are things that are problematic all across the world today. In fact, many people suffer everyday from these reforms not being worked on, in part or whole. In such a case, even though many people strive and hope for social and political reforms, Twain’s opinion and satire show the hopelessness of ever getting these reforms. When looking at the topic, the counter-argument must not be overlooked, the argument being that there is hope for these reforms. This argument relies on the fact that there are people who care to make these reforms without any …show more content…
Wherein this story, Hank Morgan is, in addition to doing everything he can for self-gain, is also very ignorant on the issues in his world. Twain puts this fact in perfectly when he simply states “he is a perfect idiot”(Twain). This issue is incredibly prevalent in today’s society as there are many people in positions to make such important decisions, such as social and political reforms, who are absolutely ignorant of the actual issue. With this, there is also the ability these people in charge have to hide what their faults are to get people to believe they are a person who knows and cares, but is just the same ignorant person. There is no better way of putting it that how Twain used Hank for this purpose as he says “[Hank] is the boss of a machine shop; he can build a locomotive or a Colt’s revolver, he can put up a telegraph line, but he’s an ignorant, nevertheless”(Twain). This is yet again something that is prevalent in today’s society as many people in charge try to overpower the people saying what they want, by arguing to them about how much they’ve done to
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