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Rip's Character and Symbolism in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
Comparing Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and America's War of Independence
Rip Van Winkle, By Washington Irving
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Analysis Of The Book ' Rip Van Winkle '
Comparing Fall of the House of Usher, Young Goodman Brown, and Rip Van Winkle

Content: for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the disciplines of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation; and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching virtues of patience and long-suffering." In other words, Dame Van Winkle was the oppressive hand that laid the foundation for Rip Van Winkle to experience the pleasures of life once out of the house, as did the people of the colonies once they escaped the rule of the crown. Rip Van Winkle knew how to make the most out of his freedom and this aura about him led other people to follow
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Comparing Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and America's War of Independence
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Parallels in Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and America's War of Independence    The story of Rip Van Winkle is well known throughout American culture. As one of America's most popular short stories, few school children have not heard of Rip Van Winkle's twenty-year slumber or imagined his long, gray beard. In the telling and re-telling of this mysterious tale, the original context of the story itself has, for the most part, been forgotten. Few Americans are aware of how the story originated
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Rip Van Winkle, By Washington Irving
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of the short story “Rip Van Winkle” in 1819, Washington Irving presented the people with a tale filled to the brim with subtle ways of criticizing a nation born again. Now considered to be one of our country’s first and greatest folktales, “Rip Van Winkle” is also so much more. Indeed, the entirety of this narrative can be seen as a commentary and reflection on the establishment of an identity by the American people before and after the Revolutionary War.