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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
It is interesting to compare the social ideas in this book to those in Huckleberry Finn. They are very similar. In HD Twain bitterly satirises the irrationality of society and the church. We see the same here.
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty toward their king and Church and nobility; as if they had any more occasion to love and honor king and Church and noble than a slave has to love and honor the lash, or a dog has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, any kind of royalty, howsoever modified, any kind of aristocracy, howsoever pruned, is rightly an insult;”
The primary difference is that Twain's opinions in CYIKAC are often presented in an expository way whereas in HF Twain make use of powerful dramatic irony through the actions and speeches of the characters.
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I agree they are different in how Twain expresses similar problems in both books.
I'm only at chap. 14, but as I've read so far, in CYIKAC, I can't help thinking of Mel Brooks in the movie ( History of the World ? ) or something like that, I'll have to look up the correct name if it's wrong. The satire & humor in this book reminds me of that movie. Lol.
Twain also tries to fix the problems he sees, with ingenuity, and not war. Something he lived through during his lifetime with the civil war. I can't help but think that he wanted re write history on some level. Even with only a legend like King Arthur and Camelot.