The Alienation and Failure of ‘Yankee’ Revealed in the Time-space of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Abstract

This essay examines the reversibility and exchangeability of time-space shown in the novel, focusing on Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and examines the alienation and failure of conflicting characters. In addition, in the heterogeneous culture and world reproduced in the novel, the world that Hank, the protagonist and time traveler, seeks to build allows readers to understand the historical issues, not just a story, and raises paradoxical and fanciful reversibility for historical anachronistic issues. Thus, readers’ understanding of other ideas unknown in historical times or in the world of representation gives them new insights into the real world. And it can be seen that the emotional alienation expressed in the novel is the author’s wish to inspire a critical perspective on conflicting cultural experiences, education and customs, and to offer hope for the future.