RipVanWinkle美国文学学习课程

1、Plot Rip Van Winkle is an ambitionless and lazy farmer. He tired of his wifes non-stop nagging at home. He seeks refuge in the mountains where he meets several mountain spirits and tastes the liquor left by them out of curiosity. Because of the magic power of the drink, he falls into a twenty-year s

2、leep. When he wakes up, everything has undergone a tremendous change.第1页/共11页第一页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。Theme of Rip Van Winkle Irving seized on the venerable theme of the henpecked husband who turns the tables on his tyrannical wife, a feat Rip achieves by simply outlasting her. Irving believe that the re

3、volution upset the natural order and he never accepts the modern democratic America. He contradicted between work and desire for leisure.After he retured,he loss his identity第2页/共11页第二页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。Theme of Rip Van Winkle Rip merely desires a leisurely, casual, convivial life, but his wife calls

4、 him home from the congenial atmosphere of the inn and lectures him in bed at night. Irving never, however, permits Dame Van Winkles point of view to obtrude; she does not speak in the story, and Irving elicits no sympathy for her. She is the enemy partly because she embodies a whole culture that is

5、 at odds with Rips values: that of the tidy, thrifty, ambitious Dutch. While loving freedom, Rip placidly endured the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle and King George and has escaped playing any role in the forging of American liberty. He has avoided the tribulations of family life by losing all title as

6、husband and becoming dependent on his daughter, while he has sloughed off his responsibilities as patriot by choosing “overnight”status as a senior citizen.第3页/共11页第三页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。The Significance of American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War was of great historical importance and

7、 influence. A new republic and democratic country emerged and marked a new beginning of American history. The victory of the American people also encouraged those in the colonies ruled by the Spanish and promoted the national liberation struggle of other colonies in the world. 第4页/共11页第四页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。Chinese stories 贾奉雉 桃花源记 南柯记 烂柯人的故事 刘阮天台的故事第5页/共11页第五页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。第6页/共11页第六页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。第7页/共11页第七页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。第8页/共11页第八页，编辑于星期六：十八点 五十六分。