The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving is a writer who authored many short stories and essays in the early nineteenth century. He is the writer of many classical short stories, such as “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and “The Devil and Tom Walker,” which are many people’s favorite short stories. However, in many of these stories the portrayal of certain male characters--and their relationships with female characters--have raised the question of whether or not Washington Irving had some questionable…

they are altered, resulting in massive changes leading to a different literary device as a product. Some literary devices have little effect on the plot and story if altered accordingly, such as universal broad themes. In the stories of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” there are many differences in literary devices in the adaptations into movies; such as the character portrayal, the overall theme, and how the eras of the films…

sought to create stories other than the dramatic, chivalrous, romantic stories that were dominating the world of literature. He wanted a book that would be amusing to read, and could have the reader laughing. From this desire, he created “The Legend of Sleepy…

Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish both represent the Romantic era, or Romanticism, an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, that emphasized emotions such as horror, terror, and awe. Common themes of Romanticism found in art or literature were folklore, emotion, horror, love, nature, individualism, the supernatural, or religion. I am hoping to compare and contrast the courtship strategies of Irving’s…

The main focus of all my research on Washington Irving, a Yankee living in New York, was to learn how the first American author pictured the world. Irving is widely considered the first American author not because he was the first author in North America, but because he is the first person in America to write stories “by heart”. What I mean by writing with heart was that Irving wrote with a passion, as he considered his work written for the reason of what he loved the most, humor. Irving wrote…

oddly addictive terror of the unknown. Watch your deepest fears on screen, and let your imagination run wild with these Netflix scary movies. “Sleepy Hollow” (1999) Scare scale: 6/10 This is a movie that’s based on Irving’s’ tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, in which Ichabod, played by Johnny Depp, is a NY detective who is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate multiple murders of people who are found headless in the woods. The local myth is that a ghost of a Hessian trooper who…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow story is very similar to the performance of it. The play and short story are indeed almost exactly the same, but there are still some differences. Both they performance and actual story itself are great representations of the author's purpose, but the play is not as descriptive as the story. Although, the play gives a great visual of the story. Whether you're looking to see which version of the story is better, they are both very similar, but still have great…

(341). Throughout the United States, the story of the Headless Horseman, a verbal story described in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” is well-known in American folklore. It is a scary story that many children tell around the campfire in an attempt to scare one another, saying that if someone is not careful, the Headless Horseman will come for them. However, many Americans do not realize that this legend originated from a story that appears in Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey…

very cheap man and will do anything to get some free food. The families like having him at the dinner table because he tells great stories. Ichabod loves stories of ghosts and magic so that is where most of his own stories come from (“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”). He has heard some tales about a man who rides through town at night without a…

not nearly as entrenched in nature as the inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are; Brom, for example, is often compared to animals throughout the story, which portrays him in a much more favorable light than Ichabod is presented in. The reader can assume that the town of Sleepy Hollow represents America as it once was, a land where Dutch farmers could live richly off of the land but also a daunting and enigmatic place. The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are honest, hardworking people, and it is Ichabod…