『커네티컷 양키』: ‘강도귀족’으로서의 행크 모건을 중심으로
『A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court』: Hank Morgan as a ‘Robber Baron'
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The main focus of this paper is Twain’s criticism of the industrial capitalism in the late 1880's. The novel’s main character, Hank Morgan, acts as a typical American who symbolizes various social characteristics of his own time. Specifically, Hank in the Arthurian kingdom can be compared to 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age, who boldly seized and controlled the national economy after the Civil War through their ruthless profit-seeking speculation, corrupt business practices, and political influence. There are many parallels between Hank Morgan and the business tycoons of late nineteenth century America who are often called robber barons. Like these tycoons, he is a ‘self-made man’ who has risen from poverty to riches with little educational backgrounds. And he is very similar to them in the sense that he is wholly motivated by the ‘success ideology,’ and gets to take full charge of the society on his own. Hank’s attempts to reform the Arthurian England resulted in a catastrophic failure which was tantamount to total holocaust. The fact that Hank is doomed to failure reflects Twain’s loss of confidence in the direction of his contemporary American society. Hank, as a robber baron, acts as a kind of device for Twain to criticize the dominant problems facing the American society in the process of rapid and disorienting change. Twain's anxieties about the inhuman nature of industrial society and emerging plutocracy are clearly evident in the book.
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The main focus of this paper is Twain’s criticism of the industrial capitalism in the late 1880's. The novel’s main character, Hank Morgan, acts as a typical American who symbolizes various social characteristics of his own time. Specifically, Hank in the Arthurian kingdom can be compared to 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age, who boldly seized and controlled the national economy after the Civil War through their ruthless profit-seeking speculation, corrupt business practices, and political influence. There are many parallels between Hank Morgan and the business tycoons of late nineteenth century America who are often called robber barons. Like these tycoons, he is a ‘self-made man’ who has risen from poverty to riches with little educational backgrounds. And he is very similar to them in the sense that he is wholly motivated by the ‘success ideology,’ and gets to take full charge of the society on his own. Hank’s attempts to reform the Arthurian England resulted in a catastrophic failure which was tantamount to total holocaust. The fact that Hank is doomed to failure reflects Twain’s loss of confidence in the direction of his contemporary American society. Hank, as a robber baron, acts as a kind of device for Twain to criticize the dominant problems facing the American society in the process of rapid and disorienting change. Twain's anxieties about the inhuman nature of industrial society and emerging plutocracy are clearly evident in the book.
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