"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving, is an amazing, humorous, and dark story to read. This story was published in 1820, and it's still being told today. This short story was being made during the Dark Romanticism era: however this story is based on humor, dark humor. The author Washington Irving, was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early eighteenth century. Mr. Irving made his literary debut in 1802,most of Irving's work were dark short stories. Why? Because Irving was alive during the eighteenth century, such as Edgar Allan Poe, and other great authors. The story is a great representation of dark. A perfect example is the setting of the story itself, it is dark, gloomy, and a bit creepy. The characters are madly in love, which brings in the romanticism. Dark Romanticism was, and still is today, very popular. It is filled with euphoria and sublimity with equally intense fascination with melancholia, crime, the grotesque, and the irrational. Many dark short stories are made up …show more content…
of a legend. By a legend, I refer the saying as "Bigfoot", or the famous "Weeping Woman", these legends are all made to be scary and frighten the audience. In the story there is a similar character. This story is not only a short story, it also has its own movie. While the movie and book differ in their setting, they are equally and commonly known for the Headless Horseman, and Ichabod Crane's desire to be with Katrina Van Tassel. To begin with, the story starts off by revealing many spooky scenarios. For example, the origins of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. The short story is also in chronological order. There is six key characters in the story: Ichabod Crane, Brom Van Brunt,, Adrian Van Ripper, and Katrina Van Tassel with her mother and father. These characters build up the climax of the story, there are obviously more minor characters in the story than mentioned. In both, the story and movie alike, there are many similarities between the characters. In the story and movie, Ichabod is tall, lanky, and he is a choir teacher that gives frequent singing lessons. Brom Bones is also a hero and prankster in both the story and movie. "A worthy wight of the name Ichabod Crane... He was tall with exceedingly long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves" (Irving). This quote explains the physical appearance of Ichabod Crane, surprisingly, he looks exactly as described in the story. In despite of all these similarities, there are also various significant differences. For example, the setting of the movie is colorful and vibrant, very lively, In the story however, the setting is melancholic, gloomy, and dark.
Another difference is the fact that in the book Brom Bones confronts Ichabod Crane one time, and in the movie Brom Bones appears to confront Ichabod on numerous occasions. In the move, Brom conducted major pranks on Ichabod. The most significant difference is the ending of the story. In the story, the horse was actually borrowed from the Van Tassels family. On the other hand, in the movie the horse is introduced as Ichabod Crane's horse. When the most anticipated scene, the one where Ichabod Cranes is being chased by the Headless Horseman in the book and movie happens, is where the most differences are apparent. In the book, the horse stays where Ichabod dies, also many important pieces are missing in the movie. In the movie, the horse was not there, his saddle was only
there. "The next morning the old horse was found without his saddle...leading to the church was found the saddle trampled in the dirt; the tracks of the horses' hoofs deeply dented into the road...was found the hat of unfortunate Ichabod and close beside of a shattered pumpkin" (Irving). In this quote, many items are missing. Regardless of the similarities and differences, both the story and movie lead the same way. In conclusion, there are not any really drastic similarities or changes. Both the story and movie continue the same sequence of events as the original story. Ichabod is never found and Brom gets married to Katrina. "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" is not only dark and mysterious, but also humorous and romantic.
During the American Renaissance, writers were put into one of two categories. The categories were the Dark Romantics and the Transcendentalists. Some Dark Romantics include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving. The Dark Romantics stories included creepy symbols, horrific themes, and psychological effects of guilt and sin. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving gives a few examples as to why life is meaningless to some people.Humans are not all good, there are some cruel people in this world. The Pit and the Pendulum tells you exactly why.
Throughout Irving’s story, he used characterization, irony, the dreams, and other literacy devices to bring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to life for Irving’s audience.
In the movie, it is told in a third person point of view and the characters look a lot more different than how they do in the book. The movie goes by much quicker than the book. Also Pony goes straight home after the church burns down.
Overall, the movie and book have many differences and similarities, some more important than others. The story still is clear without many scenes from the book, but the movie would have more thought in it.
Many evenings during the winter, Ichabod spent with the old Dutch wives. They would tell ghost stories as well as other super natural beings and demons while sitting by the fire. There was a certain story that was never left out, the legendary Headless Horseman, or sometimes known as the Hessian of the Hollow. The story went on that there was a soldier who with a cannon ball had gotten his head shot off and since roamed through Sleepy Hollow looking for his lost head while on his horse. The Headless Horseman has a jack-o-lantern that sits in replacement of his head. In addition, a love story is part of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” however many find it to be more of a pure lust or greed story. There was girl named Katrina Van Tassel who was
Fifteen years separate Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown.” The two share an eerie connection because of the trepidation the two protagonists endure throughout the story. The style of writing between the two is not similar because of the different literary elements they choose to exploit. Irving’s “Sleepy Hollow” chronicles Ichabod Crane’s failed courtship of Katrina Van Tassel as well as his obsession over the legend of the Headless Horseman. Hawthorne’s story follows the spiritual journey of the protagonist, Young Goodman Brown, through the woods of Puritan New England where he looses his religious faith. However, Hawthorne’s work with “Young Goodman Brown” is of higher quality than Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” because Hawthorne succeeds in exploiting symbols, developing characters, and incorporating worthwhile themes.
?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? is a short story by Washington Irving. Based on a well-known legend, this story tells the tale of the disappearance of the main character, Ichabod Crane. An effective ghost story, Irving leaves you guessing what the truth is behind the ending. The movie Sleepy Hollow is Hollywood?s portrayal of Irving?s original story. Although the movie is similar to the story in the beginning, the movie takes a twist that leads in another direction that strays far from the original plot.
Irving does this to help readers realize how caught up the society of Sleepy Hollow is with their past. Irving frequently brings up the Revolutionary war and how the headless horseman was a Hessian soldier from the war. When he writes, “The dominant spirit that haunts this enchanted region is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War… The specter is known, at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving 2). This is an allusion to the Revolutionary war because the headless horseman was a hessian soldier. This explains the theme of supernatural because the Headless Horseman haunts their town and the main character, Ichabod Crane, comes across the ghost of him. Another major allusion in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is Ichabod's belief in witches. The author supports this when saying, “He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's 'History of New England Witchcraft” (Irving 4). Ichabod also believes in the supernatural past. His belief in witches supports the theme of supernatural within the book. Referring to the past using allusion develops different themes within the
One thing that can make a book good is characters. In the book, there were many more animals in the farm. The movie did not show many animals except for the main animals. Even thought this is a small difference, it can be noticeable. In the book, Mollie was a character.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the first American writers to pioneer the unprecedented and unforeseen gothic genre which resulted in the American literature failed to accumulate international appreciation from the Revolutionary War period until the rise of revolutionary writer Washington Irving. Irving was perfectly positioned to live an observational, carefree life as a well-off child in New York city. Those conditions enabled Irving’s multiple trips to Europe, where he could experience the culture and eventually launch his writing career. In his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Irving wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the tale of a materialistic foreigner who competed for the heart of a wealthy woman before falling
Although at times it is easy to get carried away with the adventure of a story, noticing the elements a writer has put into his work is very important. In reading “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” you can see both similarities as well as differences of how both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving chose to illuminate their romantic writing styles. The writers both use a mystical woodsy setting with supernatural twists to draw in readers. Underlying you will find the differing romantic themes each writer used, as well as how each writer chose to end their work.
Washington Irving’s short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” was adapted into a movie titled “Sleepy Hollow” directed by Tim Burton nearly two centuries after the original publication. When the story was adapted as a film, several extensive changes were made. A short story easily read in one sitting was turned into a nearly two-hour thriller, mystery, and horror movie by incorporating new details and modifying the original version of the story. The short story relates the failed courtship of Katrina Van Tassel by Ichabod Crane. His courtship is cut short by the classic romance antagonist-the bigger, stronger, and better looking Broom Bones. Ichabod wishes to marry Katrina because of her beauty but also because of the wealthy inheritance she will receive when her father, Baltus Van Tassel and stepmother, Lady Van Tassel die. However, the film tells the story of Ichabod Crane as an investigator who is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the recent decapitations that are occurring. These modifications alter the original story entirely, thus failing to capture the Irving’s true interpretation of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” The film and the original story have similarities and differences in the plot, characters, and setting.
The improbable plots and unlikely characterization showed how much they used creativity. According to a Romanticism article, “The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate ‘shaping’ or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity” (“Romanticism”). They believe that imagination is an essential and amazing ability that humans possess. Romantic authors often included examples of imagination and creativity within their works. In the short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the supernatural plot and improbable characters illustrate the imagination of Romanticism writers (Irving). Washington Irving must have used a significant amount of creativity to come up with a story that involves a headless ghost riding a horse. He thought outside of his reality and environment in order to create an impossible and fascinating character. The Romantics favored imagination and creativity because they realized how invaluable it truly
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, one of the most classic books of all time, written by Washington Irving, was remade into a movie in 1999 by Director Tim Burton. Surprisingly there are many differences between the book and the movie, and little to no similarities. One of the major differences was that in the movie Tim Burton made Ichabod Crane a detective, while in the story he’s a nerdy teacher. Tim Burton did this to make the movie more interesting and for there to be a reason why Ichabod is so good at finding clues and solving the headless horseman case. Also they made Ichabod a little bit more brave in the movie so that there would be more action and drama in the movie. A total different between the story and the movie, is that they give a background of young Ichabod and his mother, but none of that was
Have you ever read a book and then watched the movie and saw many differences? Well you can also find lots of similarities. In the book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the movie “Tom and Huck” there are many similarities and differences having to do with the characters personalities, the setting, the characters relationships with one another and the events that take place.