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Analysis Of Washington Irving's The Spectre Bridegroom

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Hugh S. Dawson also added some thoughts to the ideas of Young, Fetterley and Fiedler about Rip Van Winkle that Rip Van Winkle being Gothic story once more shows the advantage of marriage to avoid from wasting life in impenetrable forest [6, 14/08/2015]. Another bestseller work of Washington Irving is “The Spectre Bridegroom” that also included in “The Sketch Book by Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”. If Irving in “Rip Van Winkle” headed to mix the physical and metaphorical dream reflecting the sigh of freedom in colony, in this work he brought the new American breath to the old Europe. Unlike other works, Irving described the happened events in Germany. All these hinted at that Irving wanted to ruin the old fences around Europe that formulated for many years. He wanted to break the rules regarding the traditions that limited the free choices of people. As a result of his struggle he did achieve the goal. The achieved goal was described as a victory of love upon free choices of two free persons over the old traditions transformed from generation to generation. In another word American dream slowly capturing the sky on Europe refreshes the minds. As abovementioned all events in this story took place in Germany and indicated traditions were taken from the ancient German history. In this story Irving gave depiction of lifestyle of aristocracies. He used best examples of metaphor in this story like his rest works. We can say that “The Spectre Bridegroom” is full of metaphors. As an
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