Oddly enough, Twain's simple, homespun character seems to believe what people say about his genius, eventually, as people treat him with awe. He uses his power to create industry and to mimic the life he knew in America. He says he: "was pretty well satisfied with what I had already accomplished. In various quiet nooks and corners I had the beginnings of all sorts of industries under way -- nuclei of future vast factories, the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization" (Chapter 10). Twain satirizes both the medieval peoples' ignorance, but also the Yankee inability to conceive of a better or different world than American industrial, mechanized life.

The lessons of the satire are...

but, as so many of the traditions and beliefs of the Yankee are also outdated, like the faith in industrial progress, the book also warns the reader, however unintentionally, how quickly history changes and how what we consider normal and correct today may not be seen as such even a hundred years in the future, much less hundreds of years ahead in time.
Works Cited

Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Complete E-Text available at Literature.org. 1 May 2007. http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/connecticut