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I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Mark Twains Views on Technology. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.
I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Mark Twains Views on Technology. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. Although, Mark Twain gave enough importance to technology he did not regard technology as a master of humankind. According to Twain, technology is an instrument that is employed by people in order to make their lives better but also highlighted some negative aspects of technology. The novel, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, shows technology in a negative sense. Initially, the protagonist is facilitated because of technology to get a reputation but with the passage of time and with the advancement in technology, he fails to achieve his set objectives (Fishkin 1985).
Hank Morgan is the main character of the novel, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” and takes the support of technological development regarding others as inferior to him (De Voto 1942). Hank Morgan was benefitted early on because of the lack of knowledge of common people. The common people are shown in the novel as overly superstitious, as they knew nothing about technology. The common people are shown believing in Hank Morgan as a sorcerer. Mark Twain indicates that technology, productivity, and growth, all are linked to the input that is utilized for development (Callow and Reilly 1977). With more input, there will be less benefit. Hank Morgan was able to get more advantages with less input but when he tried to make the technology better, the benefits started decreasing. The ambitions that Morgan associates with technology development are not fulfilled at the end as Mitchell explains, “Hank Morgan wants to dominate the past with sure-fire knowledge from the future, but all he achieves is a record of events that have no historical consequence” (Mitchell 231).
Shelley Fisher Fishkin informs that Twain was introduced to newspaper work at the age of twelve (Fishkin 1985). .
