The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving portrays many voices. This writing shows the romanticism, complex voice, and the idea of transcendentalism.
When one thinks of romanticism, they may think of someone who is romantic. In reality, romanticism is something very different. According to Webster, romanticism is defned as “a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection …show more content…
I believe that being selfish can torture a man’s soul, as well. Ichabod was very selfish. Ichabod wanted Katrina for the material things that he can potentially add to his “collection of things”. He imagined selling her farm so that he would get the money. Katrina was also selfish in her ways, as well. Katrina used Ichabod to insure Brom’s affection. Also, when Ichabod disappears a search party was released only because Ichabod had Hans Van Ripper missing saddle. If he had owed anyone money they would have looked harder for him. Again, this shows the selfishness of the …show more content…
This would describe the imagery of Washing Irving’s writing. It states “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang ovr the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was bewitched by a high German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.” The readers can tell right away that something is not right about Sleepy Hollow. Another example, “Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was, to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.” These kinds of things seem to be pretty natural to them, but in our world this would be considered
When one thinks of romanticism, they may think of someone who is romantic. In reality, romanticism is something very different. According to Webster, romanticism is defned as “a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection …show more content…
I believe that being selfish can torture a man’s soul, as well. Ichabod was very selfish. Ichabod wanted Katrina for the material things that he can potentially add to his “collection of things”. He imagined selling her farm so that he would get the money. Katrina was also selfish in her ways, as well. Katrina used Ichabod to insure Brom’s affection. Also, when Ichabod disappears a search party was released only because Ichabod had Hans Van Ripper missing saddle. If he had owed anyone money they would have looked harder for him. Again, this shows the selfishness of the …show more content…
This would describe the imagery of Washing Irving’s writing. It states “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang ovr the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Some say that the place was bewitched by a high German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.” The readers can tell right away that something is not right about Sleepy Hollow. Another example, “Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was, to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.” These kinds of things seem to be pretty natural to them, but in our world this would be considered