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“Rip Van Winkle” and the Emergence of an American Mythology. By Danise Bachman Rip van winkle in indeed a classic piece of American mythology. Washington Irving set this story in the past and filled it with exaggerated and sometimes, strange characters. It also features a mysterious and magical occurrence that put the main character to sleep for twenty years!
Irving’s Character Alikeness Biographical and short story writer, Washington Irving is known for his works “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” However, he does have additional short stories. Between 1819 and 1820, Washington Irving published The Sketch Book, which was made up of approximately 30 short stories. Within those works were characters such as John Bull, Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, and several other unnamed characters. Now, the nameless characters in Washington Irving’s tales had just as deep impacts in their stories as named characters; from those deep impacts came about noticeable character resemblances between those characters.
To point out that, Rip Van Wrinkle crosses the Katshill Mountain, so as to escape from his tyrannical wife, but automatically he moved twenty years forwards. When he left the village, it was the pre- revolutionary period, and at that time he has to face the constant disputation with his wife. But when he awakes from his sleep, he moved to the post- revolutionary period, and consequently his wife died. However, he does not realize that it has passed twenty years but only one night. The character does not live the events of the revolution, and he moved towards to the result; however the revolution for Rip is, in fact, the restoration of his lost patriarchal authority after the convenient death of his wife.
In Rip's case, the narrator describes it as being "an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour" (31). In the end, it is this flaw and Rip's marital situation— with Dame Van Winkle always criticizing him for his lack of responsibility— that lead the protagonist up the mountains where his dream begins. Rip's dream, however, initially is more similar to a nightmare than to a real dream. He is described as scared of the strange men he finds up in the mountains, he obeys them with "fear and trembling" (35) and it is not until he tastes the beverage that the men carried that the nightmare finally turns into a dream that ends when Rip falls into a deep sleep. It is this scene that portrays the historical value of the story.
In Rip Van Winkle this satirical nature of Irving clearly shines through. He mockingly compares the colonial life under the rule of the British against democratic life in a new and young United
The story rip van winkle an “American Dream” are very similar. Washington Irving talks about in his story how america is a place that is always trying to improve. Rip is a nice man that tries to help people when he can. He falls into a sleep for 20 years and wakes up to a new American. His wife and dog has died,his kids are grown and see him in the town.
Some people will take power naps, some will take two hour long naps, but it’s uncommon for someone to take a twenty-year nap! In the story “Rip Van Winkle,” written by Washington Irving, the protagonist goes off into the woods, and takes a rather long snooze. He comes back, and realizes how much the world changed in what feels like is overnight. Rip Van Winkle is truly an entertaining story, and one that shows how time really does go by fast. Rip Van Winkle was published in 1819, back in the days of early America.
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.
For Rip Van Winkle the only theme that mattered is personal. A king can be jettisoned and replaced by a president, congress, a constitution, and a different flag, but in the end all that matters to Rip is freedom within his four walls at home.
Rip Van Winkle was a wonderful but hopeless man. His dog would always follow him in any of his hunts, and Rip would always be concentrated onto whatever he was doing, as long as it didn’t involve his family or farm. Rip was not treated fairly verbally by his wife because of this. Rip’s dog, Wolf, felt his pain when he entered his house while his wife was there. Wolf could only barely make it out alive.
Washington Irving, as a traditional writer, used many forms of romanticism in Rip Van Winkle. A key element in romanticism is dreams and imagination. This is very important in this story because the enlightened era believed in solely facts, not of what the mind could create as a dream. Rip’s imagination gets the best of him as he runs wild up the Catskill Mountains, he meets the strange man, and follows him to take a drink. He fits into the romanticism era because he had recalled the previous events before he fell asleep.
Rip van Winkle Narrative: a Quest for Identity The illustration established the concept of full age, it is related with the moral maturity of a person required to be free and take own decisions without the influence of others. In this path, an individual cannot be completely free if their identity still attached to the laws and mandates of the society. However, United States after the revolutionary war had to face this freedom without the enough maturity to build their national identity. Through the narrative of Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving depicts the quest of the Americans for patriotic and cultural identity, because lost their identity as England`s subjects.
The story of Rip Van Winkle, by Irving, sets the position in the Kaatskill Mountains. It’s an American mythicism about a slow farmer who left on a hike and met a Dutchmen and settled up sleeping for twenty years. American religion is folk tales with some magical theme to it. After reading Rip Van Winkle, the reader may take aside that being lazy easy but it doesn’t get you wherever in life. The anecdote of Rip Van Winkle is set to place in a village in the Kaatskill Mountains.
The approach of Irving to the creation of national literary icons which will be accepted and read by every new generation could not be estimated. The activity of Irving in this direction almost always makes him different from the other authors. In “Rip Van Winkle” among the features which could be able to attract the attention of the reader we can point out the tone of the story. Indicating
