オキーフ アーサー    Arthur O'Keefe
   オキーフ アーサー
   所属
国際学部 国際学科
   職種
准教授
言語種別 日本語
発行・発表の年月 2017/11
形態種別 大学・研究所等紀要
標題 Delusion, Lucidity, and the Imposition of Will: Mark Twain's Hank Morgan as the Anti-Don Quixote
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 昭和女子大学 学苑
掲載区分国内
概要 Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) has been compared to Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605) in terms of the conflict between modern and traditional values encountered by the protagonists of both novels. While Connecticut Yankee protagonist Hank Morgan is commonly viewed as a sort of Quixote in reverse, the assertion here is that Hank Morgan and Don Quixote are directly analogous to one another in terms of each man’s intense desire to impose his will on his environment in a way he is convinced will be beneficial to it, and that success or failure in these attempts is determined by whether the protagonist’s mindset is characterized by delusion (DonQuixote) or lucidity (HankMorgan).