# Final P.S. by M. T. explained — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

> Chapter companion for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain.

## What happens

The narrator finds the stranger in a delirious state, speaking to Sandy and recalling his dreams of Camelot, the revolution, and the Battle of the Sand-Belt. The stranger dies after a final outburst about the king and battlements.

## Themes in this chapter

### Time and Mortality

Hank's delirium blurs past, present, and future, and his death underscores the theme of mortality.

### The Heroic Ideal vs. Reality

Hank's final 'effect' and his dreams of battle contrast with his lonely death in a modern room.

## Character check-ins

### Hank Morgan

The stranger, dying and delirious, speaks to Sandy and recalls his dreams of Camelot.

### Sandy

Hank calls out to Sandy in his delirium, believing she is present.

### Clarence

Mentioned in Hank's dream of fighting the chivalry of England.

### King Arthur

Mentioned in Hank's dream as dead, and in his final words as the king.

## Key lines

> I seemed to be a creature out of a remote unborn age, centuries hence, and even that was as real as the rest! Yes, I seemed to have flown back out of that age into this of ours, and then forward to it again, and was set down, a stranger and forlorn in that strange England, with an abyss of thirteen centuries yawning between me and you!

Hank describes feeling like a time traveler from a future century, stranded in medieval England with a gap of 1,300 years separating him from his loved ones.

_Hank's delirium reveals his disorientation and longing for Sandy._

> A bugle?… It is the king! The drawbridge, there! Man the battlements!—turn out the—

Hank's final words imagine a call to arms, as if he is back in Camelot defending the castle.

_Hank dies while enacting a last heroic fantasy._

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