“The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story that was written by Washington Irving in 1820 and then was later on turned into a movie in 1999 by Tim Burton. The short story “Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” is based on a well-known legend of the headless horseman in the small town of sleepy hollow. This short story tells the tale of the alleged disappearance of the main character, Ichabod Crane. This story, leaves you guessing as to what is the truth about Ichabod Crane's disappearance? While in the movie, it is more of a Hollywood version of Irving’s original story. As the movie begins in New York and introduces Ichabod crane a detective, who has his own vision of how to “solve” crimes. Ichabod Crane is then sent to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to solve the three murder cases of the townspeople. Although the movie is fairly similar to the short story , the movie ends up taking a twist that leads the ending in a different direction from the original story.…
"Masque of the Red Death" Poe uses a representation of the "evil red death" to…
Authors use many different tools to portray and create some fictional world inside the readers mind such as plot, point of view, characterization, symbolism, etc... “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Lottery” are two very melancholy stories each in their own way. Edgar Allen Poe and Shirley Jackson both use excellent techniques to create the peculiar atmosphere and mood of their stories.…
Edgar Allan Poe is a brilliant author who wrote amazing stories and poems using various emotional effects. Throughout his lifetime he went through lots of tragedy and personal conflicts. Within his pieces of literature he uses his creative writing style abilities by making readers feel emotional effects such as horror and sorrow. With all of his past conflicts, I believe it made him a lot better at connecting to readers in other ways certain authors couldn’t. Poe’s style is characterized by his use of sound imagery, irony, and repeated elements.…
Plague, terror and death swept the country. “No pestilence had ever been so fatal”. In Edgar Allen Poe’s the Masque of Red Death, the author uses setting, imagery and suspense to convey the theme that death is inescapable.…
Poe shows the mood in the pome “Alone by saying “then-in my childhood-in the dawn of most stormy life-was drawn from every depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still.” Poe creates mood in the story “The Cask of Amontillado” by saying “the niter I said see it increases it hangs like moss upon the vaults. We live below the river’s bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.” This mood creates lots of depression. In the story “the Masque of The Red Death” Poe describes the mood by writing “no pestilence had ever been so faster or so hideous blood was its avatar and its seals the redness and horror of blood.” This quote describes the mood by talking about blood and disease. The story “The Fall of House of Usher” Poe says “with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” All of these stories have a mood because there all about depression and…
"No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its avatar and its seal- the redness and the horror of blood" (1). Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre; his very stories injecting fear into the hearts of many. Poe's life was filled with tragedy, as several of the important women in his life such as his wife and daughter died at a young age. He used poems and books to express that tragedy. The short stories, "The Black Cat," and, "The Masque of the Red Death," both written by Poe, develop the theme of fear. "The Black Cat," was about a narrator who had gone crazy and was so overcome by guilt that he went to extreme measures including murder. "The Masque of the Red Death," was about The Red Death, the most dangerous disease…
Edgar Allan Poe lived a life filled with hardships and mistakes. The experiences he endured transfer over to his writing, as his writings are gruesome and usually negative. He is notable for those writings, and “The Masque of the Red Death” is a good example of his practices.…
The Red Death is a deadly, unstoppable disease taking over a kingdom, and people are doing anything to avoid it. “The Masque of the Red Death” is an intriguing, dark, and compelling short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and is centered around this disease. Poe, who has written many other classic stories, is a famous writer and poet. Most of his life is gloomy and dark because many members of his family died, and Poe had some financial troubles. Moreover, he died mysteriously in a Baltimore hospital. “The Masque of the Red Death” is a story about Prince Prospero who attempts to escape the Red Death but fails and is killed along with all of his friends.The story has many themes that teach people lessons about death, wealth, and selfishness.…
It’s these great visuals and settings that actually allow the reader to be in the characters shoes. Irving was great at depicting a scene with ease as shown in another excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle”, “…they came by a hollow like a small amphitheater, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud” (Irving 150). This quote shows that Irving payed attention to fine detail to depict what the character sees. Irving’s other short story “The Legend of The Sleepy Hollow” is about a man name Ichabod Crane who tries to marry a beautiful and rich women named Katrina. Ichabod throughout the whole story is trying to woo Katrina so he can marry her. Irving is famous for the theme of undesired love in his fictional pieces; this theme was immensely popular in fictional American literature because it is what people desired at the time. In the following excerpt from “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the reader can infer that Crane desires Katrina, but Katrina may or may not feel the same towards Crane, which reveals the theme of undesired…
During the nineteenth century, two paralleling movements, Romanticism and Gothicism, intrigued many authors, leading them to use these styles in their works. An author named, Washington Irving, reflected both of these movements in his writing with a strong focus on the Romantic style. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” were two of his most famous works, which portrayed the romantic ideas of this period. The description of the beauty of the natural world and a belief in the goodness of humanity were key romantic themes that make up large elements of both stories. Through the main figurative elements of Figurative Language, Point of View and Imagery, Washington Irving portrays the Romantic style in his pair of works.…
The story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow takes place after the American Revolution, mainly 1780. Sleepy Hollow is a small valley in New York where Dutch settlers acculturated the area, which perhaps influenced Irving. Historically, the story is not too far from where the Salem Witch Trials took place, which may have also added an aura of mystery and superstition. The headless horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian soldier in the Revolutionary War "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head.", and creates the feeling of mythology to an American event. In Irving’s times, his story may have added a sense of realism because of the relatability.…
in both the masque of the red death and tell tale heart, they speak on the topic of death. both stories use irony to tell their stories, but they are very different at the same time. in both stories innocent people are taken by death, in tell tale heart the old man is killed because of his evil eye and in the masque of the red death people are taken by some sort of disease. both of these have something else in common…
Washington Irving was relatively quiet after his years of law school until he embarked on a seventeen year expedition through Europe in 1815. During his travels, he met he English writers who would be most influential on him and his writings. The group consisted of Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, and Sir Walter Scott. One of his earliest works was published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon in 1819, The Sketch Book. Included in this work of art were two American tales which he is probably best known for, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Through his writings, Irving composes two different types of stories. His realistic stories, for example, The Alhambra, are one of these types, which objectively seeks…
The story symbolizes the inevitability of death, and brings to reality the quote “you can run, but you can’t hide”. The colors presented in “Masque of the Red Death” play a huge role in this symbolism. They create the mood of the story, they represent the stages of life, and they highlight the horror of the last night of happiness. Overall, Edgar Allan Poe carefully depicts the use of colors in his story, and they will forever be recognized as allegorical genius in this iconic tale of greediness, power, and fate. Symbolism can be found in places high and low. Be sure to look closely, and one can reveal a meaning of something they never would have thought…