Short stories test -combined set (final)
How is the romantic element of emotions made evident
- He was devastated after he was rejected - He was fearful - he loved Katrina - Brom Bones is jealous, this influences his behavior
Termagant (n)
A harsh tempered or over bearing woman
Brom Bones
A strong, plucky, mischievous young man and major rival to Ichabod for Katrina Van Tassel. Brom Bones (full name is Abraham or Brom Van Brunt)
Ichabod Crane
A young schoolteacher from Connecticut, who comes to Sleepy Hollow to teach the town's children. tall, lanky, and somewhat awkward-looking. He loves singing and dancing—he also gives singing lessons
Moral lesson in the birthmark
Accept imperfection, don't try to change it
Headless horseman
Also known as the Galloping Hessian of the Hollow. The Dutch wives of Sleepy Hollow especially enjoy telling ghost stories about the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a Hessian trooper (a German mercenary who fought for the British) whose head was blown off during the Revolutionary War. As the story goes, since his death, he leaves the churchyard where his body is buried each night and gallops off in search of his head.
Hans Van Ripper
An old, ill-tempered Dutch farmer, who lends Ichabod his horse, Gunpowder, so that Ichabod can ride it to attend Baltus Van Tassel's party
Setting of Devil and Tom Walker
Boston
Brom Bones Character type
Bully
Rip Van Wrinkle is a posthumous writing of
Deidrich Knickerbocker
What new character type do we see in YGB
Devil
Let that skull alone!" said a gruff voice.
Devil and Tom Walker
And so it was. Even while the party were looking at it, the flower continued to shrivel up, till it became as dry and fragile as when the doctor had first thrown it into the vase. He shook off the few drops of moisture which clung to its petals. "I love it as well thus as in its dewy freshness," observed he, pressing the withered rose to his withered lips. While he spoke, the butterfly fluttered down from the doctor's snowy head, and fell upon the floor.
Dr heideggers experiment
But they were young: their burning passions proved them so. Inflamed to madness by the coquetry of the girl-widow, who neither granted nor quite withheld her favors, the three rivals began to interchange threatening glances. Still keeping hold of the fair prize, they grappled fiercely at one another's throats. As they struggled to and fro, the table was overturned, and the vase dashed into a thousand fragments. The precious Water of Youth flowed in a bright stream across the floor, moistening the wings of a butterfly, which, grown old in the decline of summer, had alighted there to die. The insect fluttered lightly through the chamber, and settled on the snowy head of (him).
Dr heideggers experiment
He uncovered the vase, and threw the faded rose into the water which it contained. At first, it lay lightly on the surface of the fluid, appearing to imbibe none of its moisture. Soon, however, a singular change began to be visible. The crushed and dried petals stirred, and assumed a deepening tinge of crimson, as if the flower were reviving from a deathlike slumber; the slender stalk and twigs of foliage became green; and there was the rose of half a century, looking as fresh as when Sylvia Ward had first given it to her lover. It was scarcely full blown; for some of its delicate red leaves curled modestly around its moist bosom, within which two or three dewdrops were sparkling.
Dr heideggers experiment
In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two of the bookcases hung a looking-glass, presenting its high and dusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame. Among many wonderful stories related of this mirror, it was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients dwelt within its verge, and would stare him in the face whenever he looked thitherward. The opposite side of the chamber was ornamented with the full-length portrait of a young lady, arrayed in the faded magnificence of silk, satin, and brocade, and with a visage as faded as her dress. Above half a century ago, (he) had been on the point of marriage with this young lady; but, being affected with some slight disorder, she had swallowed one of her lover's prescriptions, and died on the bridal evening. The greatest curiosity of the study remains to be mentioned; it was a ponderous folio volume, bound in black leather, with massive silver clasps. There were no letters on the back, and nobody could tell the title of the book. But it was well known to be a book of magic; and once, when a chambermaid had lifted it, merely to brush away the dust, the skeleton had rattled in its closet, the picture of the young lady had stepped one foot upon the floor, and several ghastly faces had peeped forth from the mirror; while the brazen head of Hippocrates frowned, and said--"Forbear!"
Dr heideggers experiment
But, the next moment, the exhilarating gush of young life shot through their veins. They were now in the happy prime of youth. Age, with its miserable train of cares and sorrows and diseases, was remembered only as the trouble of a dream, from which they had joyously awoke. The fresh gloss of the soul, so early lost, and without which the world's successive scenes had been but a gallery of faded pictures, again threw its enchantment over all their prospects. They felt like new-created beings in a new-created universe.
Dr heidggers experiment
Truth of life
make believe characters like ghosts event with headless horseman
Irving wrote to...
Entertain through humor
Who is the ideal woman in YGB
Faith
Symbols in YGB
Faith - faith Ribbons - innocence Staff - gateway to hell Biblical references: Rock The reference to communion
What are two themes in YGB
Fall of man —> inherently evil Loss of innocence
Emotions —> behavior
He wants her inheritance so he tries to win her over
Who was hawthornes dad
He was a sea captain -died when Hawthorne was 4
Two Items Found in Apron of Tom's Wife
Heart and liver
Setting of Rip Van Wrinkle
Hudson River/Kaatskill Mountains
Characters
Ichabod crane Diedrich knickerbocker Brom bones Katrina. An tassel Hans van ripper Headless horseman
Who s the common man
Ichabod crane - pedagogue/ teacher
Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered, long-settled retreats; but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
The neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
The old country wives, however, who are the best judges of these matters, maintain to this day that Ichabod was spirited away by supernatural means; and it is a favorite story often told about the neighborhood round the winter evening fire.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
The story was immediately matched by a thrice marvelous adventure of (character name) , who made light of the galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Ideal woman
Katrina van tassel
(Character) who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore,—by single combat; but ( another character) was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
As the enraptured [character] fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of [a charcter], his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
He saw the walls of the church dimly glaring under the trees beyond. He recollected the place where Brom Bones's ghostly competitor had disappeared. "If I can but reach that bridge," though Ichabod, "I am safe."
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
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 to ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was—a woman.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spell-pound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud, for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remained fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
In one part of the road leading to the church was found the saddle trampled in the dirt; the tracks of horses' hoofs deeply dented in the road, and evidently at furious speed, were traced to the bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part of the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
It is remarkable that the visionary propensity I have mentioned is not confined to the native inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative, to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; star shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
What is the status of the American short story
Literary Romance, European influence, didactic, dark romance
Character types in the birthmark
Mad scientist (Aylmer), common man (Aylmer), devil personified (Aminadab), ideal woman (Georgiana)
Character types in dr. Heidegger's experiment
Mad scientist and common man (both dr Heidegger)
What does the mirror symbolize in dr heideggers experiment
Mirror represents human vanity
Where was Irving born
NYC
What does young Goodman Brown stand for
Naive Fall of man Good-man
Who is the author of young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel hawthorne
What romantic elements are found in the passage
Nature - forest Witch/ Devil Emotions
Where does specter bridegroom take place
Odenwald, Germany
What religious reference does the birthmark contain
Reference to Original Sin
As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "his name!" He looked around, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air: "his nam"—at the same time his dog bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. He now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
Rip Van Wrinkle
As they ascended, he every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded. Passing through the ravine, they came to 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. During the whole time, he and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marveled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain, yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown that inspired awe and checked familiarity.
Rip Van Wrinkle
In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed.
Rip Van Wrinkle
On awaking, he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes—it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought he, "I have not slept here all night." He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor—the mountain ravine—the wild retreat among the rocks—the woe-begone party at ninepins—the flagon—"Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon!" thought he—"what excuse shall I make to wife?"
Rip Van Wrinkle
On nearer approach, he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion—a cloth jerkin strapped around the waist—several pair of breeches, the outer one of ample volume, decorated with rows of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his shoulders a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for him to approach and assist him with the load. Though rather shy and distrustful of this new acquaintance, he complied with his usual alacrity, and mutually relieving one another, they clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a mountain torrent.
Rip Van Wrinkle
The old gentleman died shortly after the publication of his work, and now that he is dead and gone it cannot do much harm to his memory to say that his time might have been much better employed in weightier labors. He, however, was apt to ride his hobby in his own way; and though it did now and then kick up the dust a little in the eyes of his neighbors and grieve the spirit of some friends, for whom he felt the truest deference and affection, yet his errors and follies are remembered "more in sorrow than in anger"; and it begins to be suspected that he never intended to injure or offend. But however his memory may be appreciated by critics, it is still held dear among many folk whose good opinion is well worth having; particularly by certain biscuit bakers, who have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on their New Year cakes, and have thus given him a chance for immortality almost equal to the being stamped on a Waterloo medal or a Queen Anne's farthing.)
Rip Van Wrinkle
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers. When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Rip Van Wrinkle
What does the rose symbolize in dr heideggers experiment
Rose is love and love that we wish we could bring back
Symbols in dr heideggers experiment
Rose, water, mirror, skeleton,
Where does Young Goodman Brown take place?
Salem MA
Where was Hawthorne born
Salem, MA
What does the skeleton symbolize in dr heideggers experiment
Secrets bc it's in the closet (also fits in the laboratory environment)
Hawthorne wrote to...
Teach a moral lesson
Didacticism
Teaching a moral lesson through a story
Function of the narrator in the birthmark
Tells the story, explains the plot, gives the moral lesson
At length he arrived at a firm piece of ground, which ran like a peninsula into the deep bosom of the swamp. It had been one of the strongholds of the Indians during their wars with the first colonists. Here they had thrown up a kind of fort, which they had looked upon as almost impregnable, and had used as a place of refuge for their squaws and children. Nothing remained of the old Indian fort but a few embankments, gradually sinking to the level of the surrounding earth, and already overgrown in part by oaks and other forest trees, the foliage of which formed a contrast to the dark pines and hemlocks of the swamps.
The Devil and Tom Walker
At this propitious time of public distress did he set up as usurer in the city. His door was soon thronged by customers. The needy and adventurous, the gambling speculator, the dreaming land-jobber, the thriftless tradesman, the merchant with cracked credit--in short, everyone driven to raise money by desperate means and desperate sacrifices hurried to he.
The Devil and Tom Walker
Having secured the good things of this world, he began to feel anxious about those of the next. He thought with regret of the bargain he had made with his black friend, and set his wits to work to cheat him out of the conditions. He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent church-goer. He prayed loudly and strenuously, as if heaven were to be taken by force of lungs. Indeed, one might always tell when he had sinned most during the week by the clamor of his Sunday devotion. The quiet Christians who had been modestly and steadfastly travelling Zionward were struck with self-reproach at seeing themselves so suddenly outstripped in their career by this new-made convert. He was as rigid in religious as in money matters; he was a stern supervisor and censurer of his neighbors, and seemed to think every sin entered up to their account became a credit on his own side of the page. He even talked of the expediency of reviving the persecution of Quakers and Anabaptists. In a word, his zeal became as notorious as his riches.
The Devil and Tom Walker
He looked up and beheld a bundle tied in a check apron and hanging in the branches of the tree, with a great vulture perched hard by, as if keeping watch upon it. He leaped with joy, for he recognized his wife's apron, and supposed it to contain the household valuables. As he scrambled up the tree, the vulture spread its wide wings and sailed off, screaming, into the deep shadows of the forest. He seized the checked apron, but, woful sight! found nothing but a heart and liver tied up in it!
The Devil and Tom Walker
In this way he made money hand over hand, became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon "Change." He built himself, as usual, a vast house, out of ostentation, but left the greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony. He even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain-glory, though he nearly starved the horses which drew it; and, as the ungreased wheels groaned and screeched on the axle-trees, you would have thought you heard the souls of the poor debtors he was squeezing.
The Devil and Tom Walker
The truth of it is not to be doubted. The very hole under the oak-trees, whence he dug Kidd's money, is to be seen to this day; and the neighboring swamp and old Indian fort are often haunted in stormy nights by a figure on horseback, in morning-gown and white cap, which is doubtless the troubled spirit of the usurer. In fact, the story has resolved itself into a proverb, and is the origin of that popular saying, so prevalent throughout New England, of "he and the devil"
The Devil and Tom Walker
he took what he considered a short-cut homeward, through the swamp. Like most short-cuts, it was an ill-chosen route. The swamp was thickly grown with great, gloomy pines and hemlocks, some of them ninety feet high, which made it dark at noonday and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood. It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveller into a gulf of black, smothering mud; there were also dark and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the water-snake, where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire.
The Devil and Tom Walker
He knew his wife's prowess by experience. He shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the signs of fierce clapper-clawing. "Egad," said he to himself, "he must have had a tough time of it!"
The Devil and Tomwalker
Legends, superstitions, adventures
The Headless Horsemen - Ghosts and Goblins - Dutch housewives talking about it • "the dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to commander in chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head"
"A philosopher who should go deep enough to acquire the power would attain to lofty a wisdom to stoop to the excessive of it." Not less singular were his opinions in regard to the elixir vitae. He more than intimated that it was his option to concoct a liquid that should prolong life for years, perhaps interminably; but that it would produce a discord in Nature which all the world, and chiefly the quaffed of the immortal nostrum, would find cause to curse
The birthmark
"Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office, do away this scandal."
The Minister's Black Veil
"But there was something, either in the sentiment of the discourse itself, or in the imagination of the auditors, which made it greatly the most powerful effort that they had ever heard from their pastor's lips. It was tinged more darkly than usual, with the gentle gloom of (his) temperament . The subject had reference to secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omninescent can detect them."
The Minister's Black Veil
"I don't like it," muttered an old woman, as she hobbled into the meetinghouse. "He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face."
The Minister's Black Veil
"I had a fancy," replied she, "that the minister and the maiden's spirit were walking hand in hand."
The Minister's Black Veil
"The mysterious emblem was never once withdrawn. It shook with his measured breath, as he gave out the psalm: it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page, as he read the Scriptures; and while he prayed, the veil lay heavily on his uplifted countenance. Did he seek to hide it from the dread Being whom he was addressing?"
The Minister's Black Veil
"Thus they sat a considerable time, speechless, confused, and shrinking uneasily from (his) eye, which they felt to be fixed upon them with an invisible glance. Finally, the deputies returned abashed to their constituents, pronouncing the matter too weighty to be handled, except by a council of the churches, if indeed, it might not require a general synod."
The Minister's Black Veil
: All through life that piece of crape had hung between him and the world: it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love and kept him in that saddest of all prisons, his own heart; and still it lay upon his face as if to deepen the gloom of his dark some chamber, and shade him from the sunshine of eternity."
The Minister's Black Veil
"The Baron, though a small man, had a large soul, and t swelled with satisfaction at the conciousness of being the greatest man in the little world around him. He loved to tell long stories about stark old warriors whose portraits looked grimly down from the walls around, and found no listeners equal to those he fed at his expense."
The Specte Bridegroom
"By the time she was eighteen she could embroider to admiration, and had worked whole histories of the saints in tapestry, with such strength of expression in their countenances, that they looked like so many souls in purgatory. She could read without great difficulty, and had spelled her ways through several church legends, and almost all the chilvalric wonders of the Heldenbuch. She had even made considerable proficiency in writing, could sign her name without missing a letter, and so legibly her aunts could read it without spectacles."
The Spectre Bridegroom
"He had, in truth, nothing exactly to do; but he was naturally a fuming, bustling little man, and could not remain passive when all the world was in a hurry."
The Spectre Bridegroom
"No! no!" replied the stranger, with tenfold solemnity, "my engagement is with no bride- the worms! the words expect me! I am a dead man- I have been slain by robbers- my body lies at Wurtzburg- at midnight I am to be buried- the grave is waiting for me- I must keep my appointment."
The Spectre Bridegroom
"The Baron had but one child, a daughter; but nature when she grants one child, always compensates by making it a prodigy; and so it was with the daughter of the Baron."
The Spectre Bridegroom
"What a lamentable situation was that of the poor Baron! What a heartrending dilemma for the fond father, and a members of the great family of Katzenellenbogen. His only daughter had either been rape away to the grave, or he was to have some wood demon for a son in law, and perchance, a troop of goblin grand children."
The Spectre Bridegroom
Alas! It was too true! The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame. As the last Crimson tint of the birthmark-that sole token of human imperfection- faded from her cheek, the parting breath of the now perfect woman passed into the atmosphere, and her soul, lingering a moment near her husband, took its heavenward flight. The , a hoarse chuckling laugh was heard again! Thus ever does the gross fatality of earth exult in its invariable triumph over the immortal essence which, in this dim sphere of half development, demands the completeness of a higher state. Yet, had (he) reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven his moral life of the selfsame texture with the celestial. The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living one for all eternity, to find the perfect future in the present
The birthmark
It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps inefficiently on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain.
The birthmark
The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her specters within the dim region of her sway,cut suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one. (He) now remembered his dream,. He had fancied himself with his servant attempting an operation for the removal of the birth-mark; but the deeper went the knife, the deeper sank the hand, until at length its tiny grasp appeared to have caught hold of (her) heart; whence, however, her husband was inexorably resolved to cut or wrench it away
The birthmark
These questions had such a particular drift that (she) began to conjecture that she was already subjected to certain physical influences, either breathed in with the fragrant air or taken with her food. She fancied likewise, but it might be altogether fancy, that there was a string up if her system- a strange, indefinite sensation creeping through her veins, and tingling, half painfully half pleasurably, at her heart. Still, whenever she dared to look into the mirror, there she beheld herself pale as a white rose and with the Crimson birth-mark stamped upon her cheek. Not even (he) now hated it so much as she.
The birthmark
Truth often finds its way to the mind cloud muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practice an unconscious self-declension during our waking moments. Until now he had not been aware of the tyrannizing influence acquired by one idea over his mind, and of the lengths which he might find in his heart to go for the sake of giving himself leave
The birthmark
Nature setting
The description of sleepy hollow
Diedrich Knickerbocker
The narrator of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," who apparently heard the story from a storyteller at a business meeting in New York
Katrina van tassel
The only daughter of Baltus Van Tassel, a wealthy Dutch farmer, who is courted by several village youths but especially by Brom Bones and Ichabod.
What does the water symbolize in dr heideggers experiment
Water from the fountain is the biblical allusion to baptism -new life, spiritual cleansing
You are late,[character]," said he. "The clock of the Old South was striking, as I came through Boston; and that is full fifteen minutes agone." "Faith kept me back awhile," replied the young man, with a tremor in his voice, caused by the sudden appearance of his companion, though not wholly unexpected.
YGB
[he] heard the tramp of horses along the road, and deemed it advisable to conceal himself within the verge of the forest, conscious of the guilty purpose that had brought him thither, though now so happily turned from it.
YGB
fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meeting? Be it so if you will; but, alas
YGB
Aesthetic effect
To entertain the reader
Setting
Upstate New York Sleepy Hollow
What is a character type definition?
a type of character embodying certain qualities and personalities
Name of Rip Van Wrinkle's dog
Wolf
""I marvel they never spoke of these matters; or, verily, I marvel not, seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness."
YGB
"Dearest heart," whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, "pr'y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she's afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!"
YGB
"I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; and that's no trifle to say. I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in King Philip's war."
YGB
"Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But no, no; 't would kill her to think it. Well, she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven."
YGB
.............cried the husband, "look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one."
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And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed [by his wife] , an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom.
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As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once.
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But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.
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But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
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By the blaze of the hell-kindled torches, the wretched man beheld his Faith, and the wife her husband, trembling before that unhallowed altar.
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Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race."
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He could have well-nigh sworn that the shape of his own dead father beckoned him to advance, looking downward from a smoke wreath, while a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to warn him back. Was it his mother?
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I shall take a cut through the woods until we have left this Christian woman behind. Being a stranger to you, she might ask whom I was consorting with and whither I was going."
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It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.
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Let us hear which will laugh loudest. Think not to frighten me with your deviltry. Come witch, come wizard, come Indian powwow, come devil himself, and here comes Goodman Brown. You may as well fear him as he fear you."
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My Faith is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given."
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The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.
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The road grew wilder and drearier and more faintly traced, and vanished at length, leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil.
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There," resumed the sable form, "are all whom ye have reverenced from youth. Ye deemed them holier than yourselves, and shrank from your own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness and prayerful aspirations heavenward. Yet here are they all in my worshipping assembly."
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Turning the corner by the meeting-house, he spied the head of Faith, with the pink ribbons, gazing anxiously forth, and bursting into such joy at sight of him that she skipped along the street and almost kissed her husband before the whole village. But Goodman Brown looked sternly and sadly into her face, and passed on without a greeting.
YGB
What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven: is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?"
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Who is the common man in young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown
Usurer
one who lends money at a high interest rate