Comic in Time Travel Stories (Mark Twain's "Connecticut Yankee on King Arthur's Court" and Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers' Guide Through The Galaxy")

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Time travel stories are the stories in which people get lost in the dimension of time (and space). Time travel stories seem to have more with the fantasy writing, but they, in fact, may present us with a very realistic depiction of contemporary society and men. Authors of this kind of literature do that in not so obvious way, for the facts they want to exhibit lie hidden beneath the improbability of time travel, and …

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…starship. Arthur Dent travels the galaxy and time, sees new worlds and species, but still has difficulty escaping the routed patterns of behavior he is used to back home. Time travel stories present the readers with fantasy worlds and comic situations. This kind of a story setting and comic usually has a surface and a deeper level, which reveals facts about human nature, that are not so pleasant and obvious to us, ego- centered humans.