Sleepy Hollow Research Paper

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Sleepy Hollow Hector Torres

Sleepy Hollow is a dark romantic film. Firstly, the setting, time period, and hour helps readers comprehend the dark romantic feel. Also, the symbolism throughout the film and the plot highly expresses the same feeling. Romantic literature is writing based upon exgarreration of humanity, or emotions. Dark romantics are based similarly, however their writing about the human psyche is described darkly, and upsetting. Storylines include murder, sadism, and so on. Sleepy Hollow's setting lets the audience understand the flow of the story. It is set in a cold gloomy area, deep in the woods during autuum, at night. The story is about a scientist that doesn't believe in religion. He investigates the murder of several

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