Category: Rip Van Winkle

Irving integrates these three characteristics very well. One, it’s set within the past during a remote time. Two, the story has remarkable and exaggerated characters.Lastly, this tale includes mysterious events and their consequences. Rip Van Winkle is a myth. A myth is a traditional story, one concerningthe early history of a culture. A national mythology…

American Mythology has been normalized with tails like Johnny apple seed and gorge Washington cutting down a cherry tree but this but this wasnt always the truth. Everything has a beginning and American Mythology has an origin one example being Rip Van Winkle by Benjamin Irving. This story has many elements synonymous with American mythology…

In the two works, Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving and Thanatopsis by William Bryant, nature and mankind are two of the principal subjects, alike many other works created during the romantic period. In both works, nature and mankind’s desire to be in communion with one another due to natures attracting aesthetics of romanticism; the…