Twain basically satirizes the Gilded Age of late 19th century America in it.I read the Classic Comics version before the actual novel.The irony of course is that in the course of ‘modernizing’Arthurian Britian the Yankee
imparts some of the worse aspects of the Industrial Age on the people.Though the opening chapters are all
light and comical.The part where the Yankee goes on a Quest is specially funny.
