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The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

Critical Analysis of 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving

In seven pages this short story by Washington Irving is critically analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' Analyzed

The narrator's reliability in each of these short stories is analyzed in a paper that consists of five pages. There are no other ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

Elements and Themes of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

homestead and did not have a job, but he was a good and kindly man, and in that there are admirable qualities of a husband. But, t...

American Experience and Change in Irving, Calisher, and Hawthorne

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Washington Irving’s Worldview

(Irving [1]). The author indicates that if he were left alone he would have been very happy doing nothing for his entire life. Thi...

Poe, Hawthorne, Irving and Romanticism Considering Romanticism in Literature By Examining Stories By Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Dismissing Women to Achieve Male Happiness in the Works of Hawthorne, Poe, and Irving

This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

American Romanticism and the Writings of Washington Irving

This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...

1825-1860 - A Rip Van Winkle Overview

slumber. They might respond to Van Winkles queries thusly. Slave: "While slavery obviously still exists throughout the southern U...

Shrewd and Hostile Women in 'Five Easy Pieces' and 'Rip Van Winkle'

counterparts instead. By transposing these characteristics from male to female, the male character is given the opportunity to el...

Gang Life Q and A

as Sullivan takes things a step further. He looks at males in three neighborhoods, thus enhancing the possibilities for an expanse...

Routing Information Protocol

seen described in Ford and Fulkerson (1962). For this reason they may also be referred to as Ford-Fulkerson algorithms, and their ...

Summary of John Irving's Cider House Rules

him when Wally brings his girl friend, Candy, to the orphanage to get an abortion. Wally, Homer, and Candy all become very close f...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Parallel Themes and Descriptiveness in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' by Washington Irving

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

The Behavior of Gangs

to find out what kept gangs together (26). These are the questions which most interested these researchers and one can say that in...

The Irving Stone Novel Lust for Life

assumption that a bourgeois young man could move into this environment, sprinkle a little Gospel around like holy water, and grow ...

Vincent van Gogh's The Night Cafe in Arles

pure. But, the red is introduced halfway up the walls and carries up to the ceiling, where the vivid green is present. The red and...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

The Idea of Marriage Expressed in Three Plays.

This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

In Favor of Same-Sex Marriage - With Qualifications

define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The same debate in mostly-liberal Vermont several years ago resulted in ...

Education and Women in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson" (Irving). Interestingly enough, this also brings into play women, for the na...

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and the Character of Dan Needham

In five pages the relationship between Dan Needham and his stepson Johnny is examined as presented in Irving's novel. Three sourc...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...