According to researchers at Art history, Romanticism last about 40 years. It began in the early 1800’s until somewhere around the 1840’s. During the Romanticism, people wanted something different. People wanted a strong emotion, they wanted imagination. The romanticist didn’t want to continue to write the same basic things. They wanted to express themselves not thinking about what society considered correct. The two novels that I will be comparing are "Young Goodman Brown" along with "Rip Van Winkle.” These two novels both include a husband and their wives. In "Rip Van Winkle,” Rip Van Winkle took a hike in the mountains to get away from his wife, Dame Van Winkle because all she did was nag him. In "Young Goodman Brown," Goodman also leaves
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Nature is also a characteristic of American Romanticism. “He rubbed his eyes - it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze” (Irving 16). “The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church-bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn.” (Hawthorne 11). The two husbands both takes a break from their wives by going into the woods. While they were both on their journey they found people in the woods. Winkle found men dressed in Dutch clothing. Goodman found a man who represented the devil. I believe that both of these novels demonstrates American Romanticism in an amazing way. “Rip Van Winkle,” in my opinion represents American Romanticism the best. It had more emotions than “Young Goodman Brown.” The novels about Winkle involved more interest in men. A lot of men get married and leave their wife because they are nagging them, similar to Winkle. Then a few years later, the couple is back together. Both novels were good, but “Rip Van Winkle showed Romanticism
Nature is also a characteristic of American Romanticism. “He rubbed his eyes - it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze” (Irving 16). “The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church-bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn.” (Hawthorne 11). The two husbands both takes a break from their wives by going into the woods. While they were both on their journey they found people in the woods. Winkle found men dressed in Dutch clothing. Goodman found a man who represented the devil. I believe that both of these novels demonstrates American Romanticism in an amazing way. “Rip Van Winkle,” in my opinion represents American Romanticism the best. It had more emotions than “Young Goodman Brown.” The novels about Winkle involved more interest in men. A lot of men get married and leave their wife because they are nagging them, similar to Winkle. Then a few years later, the couple is back together. Both novels were good, but “Rip Van Winkle showed Romanticism