Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modern democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malorys Morte d Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgans three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. The American public, although enjoying Twains humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United States doctrine of progress.
17. According to the passage, which of the following is a true statement about the reception of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court by the American public?
The public had too strong a belief in the doctrine of progress to accept the cynicism demonstrated at the conclusion of Twains novel.
Twains novel received little public recognition until the work was adapted for motion pictures and plays.
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