>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court repeatedly digressing on the unfair reputational and estate distribution treatment of suicides

What the fuck, Mark

In A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain at least three times goes off on how unfair it was in medieval times that the estates of suicides were seized and their heirs dispossessed. This is something that at no point actually becomes relevant to the plot, and I’ve always wondered what the hell was going on there.

But who knows when that will happen and it is this:

In _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_, what is up with Twain’s obsession with the disposession of the heirs of medieval suicides? He just keeps coming back to the injustice of this in a way that has nothing at all to do with the plot, and I can’t help but think he was expecting his audience to make some connection that I’m not.