Today in class we evaluated the “RIP Van Wrinkle” short story and sought out the most dominant and non- dominant characteristics of Romanticism: (in order of what we said)
-Prefer youthful innocence to educated and sophisticated, → Kids love him, rejects his wife's nagging
-Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seeks unspoiled nature→ setting: village and mountains
-Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual→ leaves for the woods, freedom over money, ends up places by himself
-Values feeling over reason→ shooting squirrels, happy>money
- finds inspiration in myth, legend, and culture → Rip Van Winkle is regular, the dutch
-Contemplates nature’s beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development → nature description
- sees poetry as the highest expression of imagination
-looks backwards on wisdom of the past
We then describes his good fortune and bad fortune, we then discussed it throughout the class to get a better understanding of this situations of the story.
Individual choice to determine success
(sorry for being late!!)
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