EN 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Paranoid Schizophrenia, Gothic Fiction, Bubonic Plague
5 Sep 2016
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Rip manages to escape from women, but misses the birth of america. Time and history: peeling back layers of american history, suggests rip fell asleep before the start of the american war of. Allegorical: employs the conceit of the america-england relationship as a bad marriage, dame can allegorically represents england"s tyranny. Or spirit of industry, puritan values etc. Set up of comparisons between the new york dutch and the industrious and highly politicized new england yankees. The tyranny of the majority in america: poe. Temperance tale (literary warnings against the evils of alcohol consumption) Didactic literature: need for humility in americans. Arrogant, nosy, pushy in the post-revolutionaries of his age: initiation into understanding, aristocracies, hierarchies, patriotism. Monarchal tyranny: new englanders (whom irving disliked, archetypal americans, bustling vs. Historical irony in tyranny of majority opinions: social conformity in america. Freedom to lynching. : wakes up to an eagle, red cap: symbol of american revolution.
