parody:
His crude and clownish behavior is in part dictated by his function as mocker of Old World culture, but the extravagance of his buffoonery suggests that Twain, like Swift, viewed his protagonist with some irony. The Yankee is full of missionary zeal, yet he has only contempt for the people he intends to salvage (Holmes 463).
The democratic American also establishes a dictatorship based on the inventions he brings to this era in British history. He is also constantly congratulating himself for being more intelligent than the British and for having a superior mind, and yet in the end he is the victim of his own naivetT and ends up being the one fooled.
Gerald Allen believes that Twain set out to write one sort of book and ended up writing another, and this would explain the inconsistencies in Morgan's cha
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