As discussed in class, gothic stories are a combination of horror and romanticism. In the novel Sleepy Hollow, several elements of the Gothic genre are displayed. These elements include supernatural events that are similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The lack of class structure, history, and continuity in America is Tim Burton’s Sleepy is a different aspects of Irving’s original story that offers the European contrast, the film fundamentally relies on isolation, cultural differences, and ghost stories particularly with the text versus the film of Ichabod. Ichabod as depicted in Burton’s film, attempt to offer a more masculinity do so in a way that relies on some of the same valued merits. Sleepy Hollow is disconnected from other towns, however,
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These ghost stories are traditions, engrained cultures, histories, and feelings of continuity between past and present. Ichabod in the Tim Burton film was very educated and wore clothes that of pre-French revolutionary. While in Irving, Ichabod was described to be suffering from hunger. “To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field” (Irving 9). Irving described Ichabod as an unnourished …show more content…
In the text, Ichabod has no place to call home so he would do things around the town in exchange for food and place to sleep. “He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire” (Irving 10). These were only a few things that Ichabod did around the town for a warm/home cooked meal. In Burton film, Ichabod is well off on his own and is very educated. He was so good at being a detective in New York, the people and judge grew tired of his judicial inputs in the court. They decided to send him away to Sleepy Hollow to find who murdered the first three suspects: Van Garrett, his son, and the other
These ghost stories are traditions, engrained cultures, histories, and feelings of continuity between past and present. Ichabod in the Tim Burton film was very educated and wore clothes that of pre-French revolutionary. While in Irving, Ichabod was described to be suffering from hunger. “To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field” (Irving 9). Irving described Ichabod as an unnourished …show more content…
In the text, Ichabod has no place to call home so he would do things around the town in exchange for food and place to sleep. “He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms; helped to make hay; mended the fences; took the horses to water; drove the cows from pasture; and cut wood for the winter fire” (Irving 10). These were only a few things that Ichabod did around the town for a warm/home cooked meal. In Burton film, Ichabod is well off on his own and is very educated. He was so good at being a detective in New York, the people and judge grew tired of his judicial inputs in the court. They decided to send him away to Sleepy Hollow to find who murdered the first three suspects: Van Garrett, his son, and the other