Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle, a short story by Washington Irving, displays elements of the American Romanticism, as the author depicts the natural landscape associated with fantasy. The supernatural is a very prevalent theme in Romantic literature, and so is the love for the natural landscape, in opposition to the modern life in the city. These elements help isolate Rip Van Winkle from society, in a way that when he returns from his fantastic 20-year sleep, he becomes “the local storyteller, demonstrating the…

also in love with Katrina and always scared off any man who would talk to her. Ichabod later disappeared, people believed he was taken by the headless horseman, and that left Brom to be able to marry Katrina. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Washington Irving kind of wrote the story in a very funny form, but also in the story there is not a good view of humanity. Indeed humanity does not have to be viewed as pink roses, because the truth is that individuals are not nice and they are all…

is a battle that requires brain, brawn, or simply charm to attain victory. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” a short story written by Washington Irving in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, examines not only the literal battlefield of warfare, but also the perceived battlefield of everyday life or the universal theme of battle. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Irving uses vivid war-like imagery, tone, and plot to relay to the reader the battles faced by his characters in various aspects of…

people with the same personalities, characteristics, and lifestyles. Even though, Tom and Rip went through different situations, they still can relate to each other. In the "The Devil and Tom Walker" and "Rip Van Winkle" we see that the author Washington…

Irving starts out by saying of Ichabod Crane that “he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man, than ghosts, goblins, and the…

stories that make us find it more appealing. Whether it be the unique characters or magical events. A lot of these characteristics we like about stories appear in American myths. All of the main characteristics of an American myth can be found in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” These characteristics include: being set in the past, having remarkable or strange characters, featuring incredible or magical events, and conveying a positive message about a nation its people. One major…

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…

A Life of Selfishness and Greed The author of “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Washington Irving, became a famed author of 19th century America. He was born in New York and became one of the first American fiction authors to gain international acclaim. Irving began his career writing satire essays, and he was specifically known for his works, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” In his work “The Devil and Tom Walker”, he tells the story of a man and woman whose greed was to such an…

From Washington Irving, comes a story of horror, action, mystery, and witchcraft. He tells Telling the story of a man named Ichabod Crane, a dDetective from Connecticut. From his home, Ichabod travels to Sleepy Hollow, New York. His purpose is to investigate multiple murders under mysterious circumstances. People say a headless soldier from the Revolutionary war is behind the murders. Ichabod goes through a lot of adventures to find out the answer to the mystery, the scientific way...…..at least…

awe of nature, imagination, fixation on/analysis of death, etc. Some great authors include Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and many more. Throughout this essay I will do an analysis on these stories: The Devil and Tom Walker, Thanatopsis, and section 33 from Song of Myself. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, is about a common man who lives in the woods far away from society. He had a wife who was just as miserly as he was. They had no values…