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The year was 1820, Sleepy Hollow was written by Washington Irving. According to the movie, it was produced by Tim Burton in 1999. The action takes place first in New York, when some people started to know about many mysterious deaths. Victims had lost their heads. So Ichabod Crane was sent to Sleepy Hollow in order to investigate all deaths and tried to find the murderer of this crimes. Then, Mr. Crane was to Sleepy Hollow and the rest of the story is developed in that place. Also, it can say that there is another place inside the forest; it is the tree where the grave of the headless horseman was. And that tree was a gate between two worlds: real world and the hell.
Main characters
Ichabod Crane - The protagonist of the story, he was sent to investigate murderers in Sleepy Hollow.
Katrina Van Tassel - Ichabod's love interest and only heir to one of the neighborhood's richest farmers.
Baltus Van Tassel - After Peter Van Garret is murdered, he is placed as the leader of the city, he dies when the horseman drives a fence post through his body Baltus currently being inside a church, which the Horseman cannot enter-, subsequently pulling him out of the window to behead him.
Lady Van Tassel / Witch – Wife of Baltus and stepmother of Katrina, the true main villain of the film, she is the one controlling the horseman as she has his head, which he is looking for; she dies when the Horseman takes her back to hell with him.
Young Masbath - An orphan who looks towards Ichabod as a father figure after his own father is murdered by the Horseman. In the act he helps him investigate the murders of the Headless Horseman alongside Katrina.
Brom Van Brunt - A strong man who is somewhat romantically involved with Katrina. He's hostile to Ichabod upon meeting him, and later ends up dying at the hands of the horseman by being cut in half through the waist while attempting to stop him.
Reverend Steenwyck - The reverend of the village and is shot by Baltus Van Tassel after he kills Lancaster with the wooden cross.
Doctor Lancaster - The only doctor and surgeon in the village and murdered by Steenwyck in the church when he is struck on the head with a cross to prevent him revealing the plot. He was having an affair with servant girl Sarah (murdered by Lady van Tassel)
Notary Handerbrook - The local banker and possibly the oldest citizen in the village. He dies when he commits suicide by hanging
The Headless Horseman - A brutal and sadistic Hessian mercenary sent to America during the American Revolutionary War.
Type of work
Type of work
Sleepy Hollow is a legend written by Washington Irving in 1820, also there is a movie about it, it was produced by Tim Burton.
Date and place of story
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written in 1820 in England.
Point of view
It is protagonist.
The Hero and the Villains
Story`s Hero: Ichabod Crane. Who was the one who decrypted that someone was controlling the headless horseman. And, he still looked for information in that place until the end of the nightmare.
Story`s Villains: The headless horseman, he was killing people which they were chosen. And Lady Van Tassel who controlled the horseman, also she was a witch, when she was a child, she saw when some people killed the Horseman, then she said that “if the horseman back to the life, she will give her soul to the evil”.
Mythological Criticism
In Sleepy Hollow there are some beliefs like fate, there was a church with holly land like cemetery, where the horseman cannot enter. Also there is another face of fate, when Lady Van Tassel had fate in the evil and in bad spirits also her witchcrafts.
They belief in the power of nature, there was a headless horseman, and many satanic symbols, but the symbol which was under the Mr. Crane`s bed was a romantic one.
They belief in the power of nature, there was a headless horseman, and many satanic symbols, but the symbol which was under the Mr. Crane`s bed was a romantic one.
Images
Death: there are many dead, much blood is shed and heads rolled.
Birth: birth of a new creature in order to kill and decapitate the most important people in the town. (Headless Horseman)
Eternity: Evil. People can stop it, but never destroy it.
Colors
Red: Blood, sacrifice, violence
In this story there were a lot of bloodshed, and many men were killed and decapitate by the headless horseman no mercy for them.
Green: hope, fertility, death, decay
Hope that people in the town had in order to stop their murders and how to control the horseman also to know why he has been killed.
Hope that people in the town had in order to stop their murders and how to control the horseman also to know why he has been killed.
Numbers
Four: life cycle, four seasons, four elements; female.
It was the same life cycle for the headless horseman. He killed because Lady Van Tassel controlled him, but he cut his victims` heads because he was looking his own head. And always men are persuaded by female since early times. (Lady Van Tassel controls the horseman.
It was the same life cycle for the headless horseman. He killed because Lady Van Tassel controlled him, but he cut his victims` heads because he was looking his own head. And always men are persuaded by female since early times. (Lady Van Tassel controls the horseman.
Motifs
Immortality: Evil, since early times around human beings.
Woman:
Protection: Katina Van Tassel was protecting Mr Crane because she loved him. So she drew symbols in order to protect him.
Witch: Lady Van Tassel was looking revenge to all the people who did not help her and her family when they were poor.
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