Rip van wrinkle is a story of an man who slept for 20 year and wakes up and find ever thing strange and unknown. He is man who wants tired of listing to his wife and wish she was gone. He was the person who was just an idol nether contributation nether degraadating the society. Washington irving has excellently used the example of Rip van wrinkle as an idol who was trying to escape from his responsibility and trying to do that he missed important historical struggle period of his country. He try to convey from the story that if you try to escape from your responsibility than you may miss time that is really worthy of remembering for. Rip van wrinkle was not responsible and he escape from the reality and land on his own imagination world where …show more content…
he sleeps for 20 year miss an important event in the history of United States. Washington irving also points out that, “He would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.” Moreover, he was always ready to help a neighbor with hard work and frequently ran errands and did odd jobs for housewives”. Reality is bitter truth that Rip van wrinkle wanted to escape from like his wife and he did really escape but it cost him a life time event.
The above naration shows that rip lack patience or perseverance so if he was there in the war it would have not made nay difference. He also a man who take the world easy and rather than working for food and money. He is not the hero of the story as he is preznt in not present in the revolution and wakes up after it had happened. Even though his wife was tough with him, he should have standed for himself. Rip doenot do family duty, he was also an failure as a farmer and he shuns responsibilities of all sorts. He is not a solider and so its not a coincidence that he was not presnt in the fight foe the frrrdom from the grat britian. If he could not do his family duty then how could he would have guts to take a gun over the war. Probably if he was ther than he would have escape to another coultry to avoid it. Slepping to 2o year means he somewhwt wanted to ecsape from the rrality and the responsibility that he didi not want to stand …show more content…
fro. “To escape his wife and the drudgery of his farm, Rip would sometimes head into the woods with Wolf and his gun. One day, high in the Catskill Mountains, he hunted squirrels, firing one shot after another” Based on his imagination and the want to escape from the reality he created his own world where he was put into sleep by the witches.
Imagiantion is such a strong delusination that hadmade rip van winkle to get blind folded by his want to esczpe so he slept all over 20 years that was important for the Americans freedom.Rip van wrinkle wakes up and find that the village he used is no more the same village that he used to live. Everything’s seems different and strange and he has now lost his family. Now he realise the importance of his family and missed his wife and home. He was on the same clothes old clothes that he was wearing before he went to sleep that shows that he still have the same old irresponsible
man. Washington Irving had excellently described about the village scene, when rip had come over from his sleep. He doenot recognize any pople around him. The family and the friends he knewonce were gone. He felt he was in strange world. When he walked down the village resort he found that the old resort was gone and the new large building was there. Instead of the tree there was a flag and the protrate of the king was replaced by the protrate of George washunton. The weired thing was when a group of people came and surrounded him due to his weired clothes. He was asked the question whose support is he? He was not able to answer it but after hesitation he replied that he is aloyal subject of the king. He nearly got in troublr due to that, he tried to escape the reality and he doesn’t know the real world that he has tolive lin after the 20 years of escape. He could be easily be a scapegoat if he still try to ecsape from the really rather than trying to face it. Its easy to pretend that we domnt have any responsibility but we ultimately have to face the truth. Those who were brve faced the war during the revolution and won it and enjoyed the glory of victory. As for rip van wrinkle he escaped in his imagination so he was not able enjoy the glory of the independence so everything he saw after he wakws up were just strange for him. He never would have thought his life would have been better rather than turning upside down due to his own stubbiness to escape form his relity an dhis dream.
During the War for American Independence, 78 men were commissioned as general officers into the Continental Army by the Continental Congress. Many of these generals commanded troops with differing levels of competence and success. George Washington is typically seen as most important general, however throughout the war a number of his subordinates were able to distinguish themselves amongst their peers. One such general was Nathanael Greene. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Greene would become Washington’s most important subordinate, as demonstrated by Edward Lengel’s assessment of Greene as “the youngest and most capable of Washington’s generals.” Washington and Greene developed a strong, positive and close relationship between themselves. Greene began his life in the military after having been raised a Quaker. With limited access to literature and knowledge in his younger years, Greene became an avid reader which equipped him with the knowledge necessary to excel as a general during the war. Through his devoted study of military operations, firsthand experience and natural abilities as a soldier, Greene became an excellent military commander. He would become known for his successful southern campaign, during which, he loosened British control of the South and helped lead the war to its climax at Yorktown. Throughout the war, he was involved in a number high profile battles where he built a reputation of being an elite strategist who also understood unconventional warfare, logistics, and the importance of military-civil affairs and had a natural political/social acumen. The thesis of this paper is that Greene’s proven reputation of being a soldier, strategist and statesman would cause him to become the second greates...
Protagonist Rip Van Winkle possesses mystical and entertaining characteristics that captivate the reader. Rip Van Winkle regards all of his neighbors with kindness continuously. He shows the depth of American values such as kindness and the love of the neighbor. Van Winkle’s great kindness is illustrated by his helping of others. On page 62, the narrator states “He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was moreover a kind neighbor, and an obedient, henpecked husband,” confirming that Van Winkle is a kind person and a loving
A common idea throughout the United States is that a person is to work their hardest, notably, with some type of aspiration within their mind that they would like to achieve. With that being the case, even a virtually inescapable predicament is not considered to be a justification for the inability of achieving a personal goal or subjective goal that was passed to themselves from another person. Subsequently, within the short story “Rip Van Winkle,” the titular character has an absence of ambition within his life. Rather to hard work, he spends his days casually lazing about in the forest with his dog Wolf. As well as these actions resulting in frequent derision from his wife. Hence that Rip Van Winkle is antithetical to popular
In RIP Van Winkle, Dam Van Winkle is abusive, nagging, and sarcastic. In Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving states that “but what courage can with stand the ever-during and all besetting terrors of a woman’s tongue.” He seems to imply that he did not like women who gave their opinions and spoke their mind. It seems that Rip is going into the woods to escape his wife.
First off in the story of Rip Van Winkle, a man sick of his wife wanders off into the woods only to disappear for twenty years.
When I was younger the world was such an innocent, delightful place. People were kind, and always willing to help. As I have grown I have found that my views of the world and the people in it have changed; I don 't find it to be as innocent or delightful. I have slowly become to notice the wicked around me. Nathaniel Hawthorne 's "Young Goodman Brown" and Washington Irving 's "Rip Van Winkle" both convey changes in their views of the people and world around them.
Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle with the American people in mind. At this time society was changing drastically. America was attempting to go through a struggle with forming their own identity. America was wanting to have an identity that would set them free from English culture and rule. Irving uses his main character, Rip Van Winkle, to symbolize America. Rip goes through the same struggles that America was going through at this time before and after the Revolution. Irving uses such great symbolism in this story to describe the changes that American society went through. This story covers a wide variety of time periods including: America before English rule, early American colonies under English rule, and America after the Revolutionary War.
In “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving he writes about a simple man, Rip Van Winkle, who does just enough to get by in life. He lives in a village by the catskill mountains, and is loved by everyone in the village. He is an easy going man, who spends most of his days at the village inn talking with his neighbors, fishing all day, and wandering the mountains with his dog to refuge from his wife the thorn on his side. On one of his trips to the mountains Rip Van Winkle stumbles upon a group of men who offer him a drink, and that drink changes everything for Van Winkle. He later wakes up, twenty years later, and returns to his village were he notices nothing is the same from when he left. He learns that King George III is no longer in charge,
Irving, Washington. “Rip Van Winkle.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Nina Bayn. New York: Norton & Company, 1999.
In Rip Van Winkle, Irving shows his doubts in the American Identity and the American dream. After the Revolutionary war, America was trying to develop its own course. They were free to govern their own course of development; however, some of them had an air of uncertainties on their own identity in this new country. Irving was born among this generation in the newly created United States of America, and also felt uncertainty about the American identity. Irving might be the writer that is the least positive about being an American. The main reason for this uncertainty is the new born American has no history and tradition while the Europe has a great one accumulated for thousands of years. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, Irving borrows an old European tale to make it take place in America. This tale related to the Dutch colonists haunts the kaatskill mountains. In order to highlight the American identity, Irving praises the “majestic” mountains which Europe lacks. He describes the mountains that “their summits…will glow and light up like a crown of glory” Nevertheless, the use of these ancient explorers into Rip Van Winkle only to show that although American has formed its own identity, no one can cut its connection with Europe. No wonder when America was still under tyranny of the British rule, some people still cannot cut the blood relationship with Europe. Therefore, the American identity is blurred by their relationship with Europe since then.
"Rip Van Winkle" has been a well-known story told throughout time. There is not a doubt that as a child, many of you heard the words of Washington Irving's famous tale of the man who slept for twenty years. Nor can one forget the "elves" that Rip Van Winkle spent the night with in the amphitheater. Like many stories, Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" has been told so many times throughout American history that it has lost its original purpose. The story is now remembered for its fairy tale like quality and its appeal to the children and the young at heart. However, when given the chance to delve into the depths of what Irving was trying to portray, one may see the symbolism that played a hand in Irving's development of Rip's character throughout the tale.
Arthur is now referred to as Lord Godalming. Mina reads Jonathan's journal and is horribly upset by it. Van Helsing comes over to further explain how Lucy died. Mina decides that Van Helsing needs to read Jonathan's journal and gives it to him. Having read Jonathan's journal, Van Helsing remembers the things he did when he was in Transylvania and confirms the events entailed in John’s journal. Jonathan decides to journal again, and the story shifts back to his perspective. Renfield has returned to his pastime of eating flies. Van Helsing visits Seward, and they talk of the Bloofer Lady and the events surrounding her. After noticing a correlation between the bites found on the children and the bites on Lucy’s neck, they conclude that Lucy is
Washington Irving's, "Rip Van Winkle" presented a tale of a "dreamer." Rip Van Winkle was a family man
Rip Van Winkle tells the story of a man who, on a trek into the Kaatskill mountains, mysteriously sleeps away twenty years of his life during the Revolutionary War. When he returns home, he finds that things have dramatically changed; King George no longer has control over the colonies, and many of his friends have either died or left town. At this point, the story reaches its climax, where Van Winkle realizes that his life may be forever changed.
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