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Foolishness and Folly
If we pick up nothing else from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, we're sure to understand that Arthur and his noble knights are a gang of rampaging idiots. In fact, everyone in England except Hank himself is either a moron or taking advantage of morons. Their foolishness may be Twain's way of depantsing all those epic heroes of old, but it might also be a subtle jab at humanity in general, suggesting that we're no better today than they were back then. And against foolishness, there is no hope. Even Hank's great advances don't make permanent change when up against it.
The Arthurians are foolish because of the time they live in, and because they belong to the epic genre that Twain is trying to send up.
The Arthurians' foolishness is a reflection of all of us, regardless of the time in which we live.
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