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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" was written at a time when Americans were trying to establish their own distinct culture and literature. Irving's story helped to establish the tradition of a distinct American...
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Rip Van Winkle
In Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle," the titular character falls into a deep sleep following his consumption of the proverbial strange brew, initially described by Irving's unseen...
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Rip Van Winkle
This is a bit of a tricky question, because the narrator emphasizes that everything has changed in the village. The question might be referring to one of two things -- the mountain scene, or the...
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" is a myth within a myth. A myth can be loosely described as a story with an element of the supernatural. Diedrich Knickerbocker is a fictional man who gathers stories from the...
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Rip Van Winkle
In this scene, Rip has made it to one of the highest and loneliest parts of the Catskills. It is close to evening and as Rip looks down into the mountain glen, he hears a voice calling his name....
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Rip Van Winkle
In the first part of the story, before Rip Van Winkle falls asleep, he neglects his farm. "In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle provides a window to the American Revolution from the vantage of a Dutch burger in the Catskill mountains. What changed in Rip's world was the sovereign authority to whom the locals...
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Rip Van Winkle
An example of a symbol in "Rip Van Winkle" would be the Union Hotel that replaces the Inn after the Revolutionary War. The Inn, with its sleepy owner and picture of King George III, symbolizes the...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle is a child at heart. He would rather play and help others than do his own work. As a consequence, his wife is always nagging him to get his own work done. His wife is so domineering...
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Rip Van Winkle
Wandering away from his nagging wife, Rip Van Winkle falls under a spell and sleeps for 20-odd years. As a result, when he returns to his village in the Catskills, he has no idea that the American...
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Rip Van Winkle
While Rip van Winkle is sleeping, the American Revolution occurs. This revolutionary war took place from 1765-1783, so when Rip awakens the war has been over for two years. This American War of...
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Rip Van Winkle
It's interesting to think about writing about "Rip Van Winkle" from these three critical perspectives. The historical perspective is important, as the story shows the social and political shift...
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Rip Van Winkle
The name "Kaatskill Mountains" is simply another name for the Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills. This large mountain range lies in the middle Hudson Valley region of New York State....
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip's "meekness of spirit" means that he is most definitely not a leader, alpha male. His character type is hardly ever seen in modern media examples. Hyper-masculinity is the name of the game in...
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Rip Van Winkle
Irving's depiction of Dame van Winkle serves to make Rip a more sympathetic character. A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with...
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Rip Van Winkle
At the beginning of Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" the narrator offers a description of the story's setting by detailing geographical features WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson...
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Rip Van Winkle
When Rip falls asleep, the colonies are firmly under British control, the situation seems unlikely to change, life is slow-moving, and Rip enjoys visiting the Inn, where he can hang out on a bench...
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Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving placed his stories in the New York that he knew well, especially the lush woods and hills along the Hudson River. Any film based upon his 1819 short story Rip Van Winkle, then,...
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Rip Van Winkle
Irving first establishes a deep connection between his sketch's eponymous protagonist and his dog, Wolf, in order to set the stage for his eventual apprehension: Rip’s sole domestic adherent was...
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Rip Van Winkle
One interesting fact about "Rip Van Winkle" is that it was written in England and despite its vivid and beautiful description of the Catskill mountains, Irving had never visited there. So when he...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle was a short story written by Washington Irving under a pen name. It was supposedly written when Irving was staying in England in the summer of 1818. He had earlier in the day been...
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" spans a 20-year period of massive change in America. While we don't get exact dates, when the story opens, Rip lives as a colonial, under the rule of Great Britain. He likes to go...
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Rip Van Winkle
The works of Iriving and Poe have influenced the American character through the dark side of Romanticism. Yes, Dark Romanticism is a thing. Now, before you go all blah on me, Romanticism is pretty...
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Rip Van Winkle
In an introduction of Dame Van Winkle, emphasis can be placed on how she tried to make her husband work and be productive when he was not. If Dame Van Winkle would introduce herself to a larger...
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Rip Van Winkle
Irving doesn't provide much physical description of Rip, focusing instead on his character, which is happy-go-lucky, beloved of children, and lazy. We know the young Rip is strong enough to carry...
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Rip Van Winkle
There are many differences in Rip Van Winkle's small town after he awakens from his 20 year nap! Since Rip falls asleep right before the Revolutionary War and wakes up in the years after, so much...
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Rip Van Winkle
The message or moral presented in "Rip Van Winkle" is that if you don't work while you are young and don't make something of yourself, you will wake up one day and find that you have grown old, you...
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Rip Van Winkle
At the beginning of his sketch "Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving's narrator lets the reader know that Rip is a rather lazy person who is not interested in working hard. Furthermore, we see that...
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Rip Van Winkle
The setting of the story is New York near the Catskill Mountains. The beginning and end of the story take place in a village "at the foot of these fairy mountains" ("Rip Van Winkle"). It is a...
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip Van Winkle" indicates that its protagonist was asleep during the American Revolution mainly through implication, as it is never directly stated, and the reader must infer from details of the...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip witnesses this melancholy party after he passes into the amphitheater, a liminal space far different from his everyday world. The melancholy party consists of people in old-fashioned Dutch...
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Rip Van Winkle
The story of "Rip Van Winkle" is told by a fictional man named Diedrich Knickerbocker. It takes place in the 1700s. New York was once a Dutch colony called New Holland. Even after New Holland...
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Rip Van Winkle
Before the text proper of Irving's sketch "Rip Van Winkle," the narrator offers an exposition on the nature of historiography. The narrator frames the story of Rip by claiming that, The following...
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Rip Van Winkle
The narrator says twice in the opening that Rip is good natured and that this earns him "universal popularity." He is easy going, he lives in the moment, and he likes people. He is always ready to...
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Rip Van Winkle
Before he falls asleep, Rip follows a strange man dressed in "antique" Dutch clothing and carrying a keg of stout through a dry mountain ravine where a torrent must once have flowed, and up a...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle sleeps for twenty years in imitation of the old German legend of "Peter Klaus," upon which it is based; also, his somnolence for these two decades allows him to sleep through the...
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Rip Van Winkle
One similarity between "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the setting; each takes place in an American Dutch enclave in upstate New York. Both utilize the peaceful, pastoral...
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Rip Van Winkle
Both stories take place in New York state. Diedrich Knickerbocker notes that "Rip Van Winkle" has to do with Dutch history. Francis Weed, the narrator in "The Country Husband," returns to the...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle was a kind and gentle soul well liked within his community; however, his major weakness was a lack of industry. Rip Van Winkle was not lazy; after all he was perfectly happy to walk...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains for twenty years. Before he left his village home near the Hudson River, Rip was an English colonist. He lived in the English colony of New...
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Rip Van Winkle
The narrator describes how Dame Van Winkle would respond to one of Rip's shrugs. This provokes a "fresh volley" from his wife. "Volley" can mean to kick or hit a ball (as in tennis or volleyball)...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle is a carefree man. He will play any sport or game with the children of the village. He will fish for hours on end, even without the faintest hope of catching anything. He will do...
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Rip Van Winkle
According to the narrator, Rip Van Winkle would have been happy without a family because he was the sort of happy-go-lucky individual who made the best of everything in life. However, even someone...
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Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle leaves his farm so often and for so long for two reasons: the first, we are told, is that he doesn't like to work, at least not for himself. Further, the farm hasn't responded well...
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Rip Van Winkle
In one sense, "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is obviously pure fiction, and not meant to be understood as a real history. However, such framing devices are common elements of fiction of the...
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Rip Van Winkle
The story of "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving is about social change. In the beginning of the story, Rip and the town in which he lives are emblems of peace and stability. Rip's life is...
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Rip Van Winkle
"Rip van Winkle" is a fantasy that relates to age-old folk tales, specifically a German tale about "Peter Klaus," which includes strange, supernatural beings, a perilous journey, and enchanted...
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Rip Van Winkle
1. As a writer in the Romantic period, Washington Irving describes the Catskill Mountains as both beautiful, majestic, and mysterious. Van Winkle's colonial village is either the real village of...
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Rip Van Winkle
Shortly after Rip Van Winkle returns to his village after sleeping for twenty years in the Kaatskill Mountains, the villagers gather to listen to Rip explain his story. However, the community...
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Rip Van Winkle
This is a classic story of wish-fulfillment as Rip's life is transformed for the better without any effort on his part. His twenty-year magic sleep has, overall, a most agreeable effect: he returns...
