The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

of the time, you can’t have a scene where you go upstairs or downstairs, due to the stage. You can’t show that it’s raining outside or that they were at a party and made a grand entrance into a gorgeous ballroom. For instance, in the story Legend of Sleepy Hollow, part of it takes place in the woods. Because of the stage, the cast couldn’t portray the woodsy feel, intensifying the suspense. In the book, they described the woods in great detail, that added more suspense to the story for me.…

year old boy. In the Necklace, I imagined that the wife had grey hair, circles around the eyes, and callused hands. In the performance they didn’t make this detail as important, and the couple were presented as sad and poor. In the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, you never find out what happens to the Ichabod Crane. You are left to imagine whatever you my like. I personally thought that he did end up fleeing the town, and this time the director’s of the play thought the same thing. I would…

The difference between a play and a story? Well, a play is something you watch and a story is something you read. The only thing is, what if they’re the same too? Setting is different, suspense is different, but maybe emotion is the same. The Monkey’s Paw was a great story, yes, but I pictured the setting a lot differently. In the story, it was dark when he went to find the paw. I imagined him bumping into things, lead by his candlelight. In the play, all he did was walk down stairs. Along with…

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax: A Legend Reborn On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts with the following investigation of their murder placing Lizzie Borden as the prime suspect. “There have been more than a dozen retellings in popular culture of the Lizzie Borden trial” (Borden). What makes the biopic Lizzie Borden Took an Axe stand out from the rest? For starters, the story itself is appealing in the mystery surrounding the murders of…

While many relate Dark Romanticism with Gothic Literature, they may seem alike but are surprisingly different. Including the origin, the style, and the scenic backgrounds. They both hold dark and mystic themes, but have completely different ways of carrying it out. Dark Romantics is in definition the literary feature of Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism was idealized in the 19th century, and lead to the creation of other types of writing genres still used today. This philosophical movement,…

He lived most famous for writing “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rip Van Winkle”, and “The Devil and Tom Walker.” “The Devil and Tom Walker” tells us of a man who took a shortcut home by going through a forest, but got confronted by the devil. The devil offered him a large sum of money to work as a banker…

characters, and setting were essentially the same, and didn’t differ from the book. For example, in The Raven, the setting, characters, and main story structure hardly strayed from the book, as well as in the plays The Tell Tale Heart and The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, and basically all of…

Revolutions all across the globe had constituted to an era, which brought forth to some of the most influential artists and writers of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. In particular, the revolutions pertaining to America such as the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, gave many artists new subjects to consider such as contradicting political views, economic actualization and strong cultural and social diversity. When these feelings were brought forth into works of art, the…

The Early American Fiction Writers Washington Irvin, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe Contributed Significantly to the American Literary Canon with their Unique Styles of Writing and their Varied Literary Themes and Forms Referred to as the Romantic Era in both America and Europe, the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century gave rise to phenomenon writers that made massive contributions to the American literary canon. At the time, these new forms of literature were…

generated in both Europe and America. Romanticism was displayed in literature, philosophy, art, and even politics and economics. American intellectuals committed themselves to the liberation of human spirt. Washington Irving 's, tale called Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Doc 4) opens with a evocative description that gives off the rich and graceful region of the Hudson River Valley in the early 1800s. They had a growth of compulsory state funding education schools called common schools. Education…