Rip Van Winkle Building America Quotes

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Jasmine Rubalcava
Villate and Howard
Building America
January 22, 2018

Romanticism Imagination can be seen in Rip Van Winkle’s perspective of his wife. Rip Van Winkle sees her as a scary person, a villain, if you will. In the book, it says, “…for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.” The “shrewd” is Dame Van Winkle and how the author or protagonist sees her. The quote implies that her behavior is the reason why Rip Van Winkle is so obedient to her. A different quote in the book goes deeper into her angry behavior, “Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence.” Another quote explains what the other women in the village think of her, “…took his part in all …show more content…

Instead of doing his own work, he spends his time helping others expecting nothing back. Love of nature is expressed when Rip Van Winkle wakes from his long slumber. The quote goes to explain the details of the environment in which Rip Van Winkle woke up in, “…it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze.” When Rip Van Winkle returns to his village, it is completely different. The quote, “…and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking?” Because it is in the future, everyone currently living there find him to be strange and different. He eventually learns what happened to the people that used to live there, and everyone presently there learns he is Rip Van

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