Sleepy Hollow

Irving’s Romanticism Washington Irving, the first American writer achieves fame in Romantic literature, through legendary stories such as “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving captivates his readers with his ability to twist minds by teaching valuable lessons through Romantic fiction. His spooky story about a “Headless Horseman” and the characters in the story demonstrations the movement of Romanticism. Romanticism is when a treatment of a subject is emotional…

So, there was added an episode with the cow in the forest, with the spoons in Van Tassel’s home, or Katrina’s story on the porch before Ichabod left. In return, it wasn’t shown how Ichabod Crane helped inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow: “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” (Baym 968). In the story Irving doesn’t tell us what was the…

Theatrical performances of stories are usually very different and more dramatic than the original story because of many elements of the theatre production. This statement is no different for the theatre production of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The lighting, sets, and sound effects really give a scarier mood to the story. The dark and ominous lighting really set the mood during the scene of the performance when the Headless Horseman was chasing Ichabod. The dark and scary lighting and then…

The idea of persona being important in order to maintain a “good” class status is fluente in “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The protagonist Ichabod desires the heart of Katrina Van Tassel, but must have the approval of her father, as well as beat the competition. The competition was with Brom Van Brunt who although was not as educated as Ichabod, had a more preferable…

In Washington Irving 's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Edgar Allan Poe 's "The Cask of Amontillado," Brom Bones and Montresor take self-preservation to a far extreme. This idea of protecting one 's self and preserving one 's ability to achieve a certain status at any cost becomes a dark, greedy American ideal. At the beginning of both stories, Brom 's desire to destroy any suitor 's hopes of winning Katrina and Montresor 's joking tone leaving Fortunato unknowing of his fate reduce any chance…

In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, was Written in 1820. It was a great book that caught the attention of many people for its thriller theme. When in 1949, Walt Disney decided to make a replica of the book calling it “The Adventures of Ichabod Crane and Mr. Toad”. Both stories are similar in certain ways but the movie just doesn't show Irvings Dark Romanticism side. Besides you can differ the movies plot and the books plot very easily. Both stories have the same characters and…

Irving’s use of Masculinity and Femininity Washington Irving 's famous short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has many aspects masculinity and femininity. Femininity tends to dominate the short story a lot more than masculinity does, with the protagonist being very feminine. The two main male characters in the story are Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. These two characters couldn’t be more opposite of each other than they are throughout the story, especially in aspects of masculinity. While Brom…

Magical ale, haunted crews, headless goblins, and witchcraft, all elements of these two short stories by Washington Irving, used to draw the reader’s attention. Both “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” share characteristics of Irving’s love for the areas he visited as a young man, his sense of humor, and a knack for alternative plot development. These pieces more specifically share descriptive settings placed in the same region, as well as Irving’s sarcasm toward gossiping wives…

In the Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving there are two main characters. Their names are Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. They didn’t like each other not one bit. Ichabod crane is the protagonist of the story because everything focuses on him. On the other hand, Brom Bones is the antagonist because he is always interfering. There are some similarities and differences between Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. Ichabod was an instructor to the children of vicinity. He also looked different. He…

similar. “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving share many aspects of romanticism; these include the importance of nature, supernatural events, and a sense of individualism. Although these similarities are present the stories are very different. These differences are mostly due to the style the stories were written in; “The Black Cat” is a gothic romantic story while “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a traditional romantic story. Though…