story begins with “once upon a time‚” and ends with “happily ever after.” In Washington Irving’s‚ “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‚” set in post-American Revolutionary war New York‚ the conventions of present-day fairy tales are broken. With deep roots in historical European folklore‚ the story is a gothic tale of romance‚ fantasy and ironic humor‚ offering no definitive end. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‚” Washington Irving uses an unreliable narrator‚ an extremely complex style of writing‚ and a dream-like
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Malone‚ Mariaun The tone and theme affect the mood in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by telling what the main idea of the story will be about. The tone is a mixture of funny‚ playful‚ and horror. The headless horseman is known by bad things but he is used to do funny things. The theme of the story is love and community. Mood‚ tone‚ and theme all have something in common because it puts together the book. The mood is boring‚ foreshadowing‚ suspenseful‚ and scary. The author described things scary
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movies: Sleepy Hollow‚ The Crucible‚ and Harry Potter. First‚ Sleepy Hollow‚ starring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane‚ is a movie adaptation of Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In the short story‚ Irving was able to masterfully paint a picture of a ghost town with a vivid description of the setting of his story. The feel of witchcraft was pervasive in the mood and setting of the story and the people treated witchcraft as a component of the place of Sleepy Hollow itself
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thoroughly. The aim of this essay is to explore descriptions of landscape in one of his short stories found in this collection‚ “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”‚ thus proving how landscape is important to create atmosphere‚ transmit emotions‚ and reflect the characters’ personalities.
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WOMEN IN ARTHURIAN LEGENDRY. Throughout literature women have been depicted in many different ways. This may have been influenced by certain stereotypes or an author’s personal experience. In Arthurian legends such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ the female character queen Guinevere is not portrayed as an individual but as a social construct of what a woman should be. Queen Guinevere however plays a passive woman. At the time of the middle ages‚ women were considered to be of lesser quality
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inform the reader of a point that the writer is trying to make. In this case‚ some of Washington Irving’s works such as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Devil and Tom Walker‚” Irving tries to convey a few points that are issues in the United States (and in the world) at the time in which these stories were written. Washington Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the early 1820’s. Both short stories were written based on different stories from different
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Terra shiles English 232 Mullinax September 18‚ 2013 The Book vs. The Movie The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Ivring was a very interesting story that is well known around the world today. The movie was far more entertaining than reading the book If I must say so myself. Tim Burton gave a new spin to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I myself have always enjoyed anything written or directed by Tim Burton because of his sense of horror and his creative abilities. The characters are redefined
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Despite the evidence that Washington Irving uses to show his love for America in his stories‚ he portrays some characters in the Devil and Tom Walker and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as greedy. Irving shows concern for America by placing stories in uniquely American moments. In this essay I will prove through passages and quotes from Irving’s stories that he shows his love for America in his stories and portrays some characters as greedy in the two stories. The historical settings of these
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Although not everyone will agree‚ I want to present the idea that the story that deserves the prestigious Edgar Award is‚ “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow”‚ written by Washington Irving. It introduced such suspense that had the ability to capture your attention. Although an appropriate runnerup would be “The Cask Of Amontillado”‚ by Edgar Allen Poe himself. I felt it had some boring aspects that left me feeling unsatisfied as a result. I will prove my opinion by presenting my textual evidence piece by
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Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones are two characters from the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. The setting of this story is New York‚ during the 1790’s‚ in a place called Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane‚ who was the new school teacher and also instructed young folks in psalmody‚ soon had his heart stolen by a young coquette known as Katrina Van Tassel. Katrina was a blooming young lady of fresh eighteen and was to one day inheriting her father’s large fortune. Ichabod‚ however‚ was
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