American Literary Styles Of The Film Of All The Movies...

For all the movies directed by Tim Burton, there is something about his work that sneaks up on the viewer, startling and disturbing, but oddly fascinating once recognized. The demonstration of cutting things, and people, open including gore and blood galore has always been a repeated pattern in all of his films: Frankenweenie, Edward Scissorhands, and now Sleepy Hollow. Using costumes, tools and language, Sleepy Hollow reflects each of the three American literary styles of Puritanism, Rationalism, and Romanticism. Puritanism was shown a lot during the movie. In almost all the scenes involving Ichabod’s father, the Judge, or the towns’ people of Sleepy Hollow they defined what a true Puritan was by their behavior, along with what they believed and lived by. From the beginning of the film, the viewers are introduced to the people of New York. The way the governed their town was very similar to the way the Puritans did during the 1600s. The people of New York believed in h arsh punishments for those who did wrong. When a thief was brought before the jury and judge Ichabod stated, â€Å"Our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.† That statement, about their court system, has Puritanism written all over it. Harsh punishments were the Puritans way of fulfilling the word of God; ensuring that sinful behaviors did not occur again. The same way the judge felt about people who disobeyed God’s commandments, Ichabod’s father did. His wife was very happy and believed inShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesand Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited David M. Scobey, Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography Allida M. Black, ed., Modern American Queer History Eric Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past Sharon Hartman Strom, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform Read MoreDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pagessources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2011, 2007, 2005, 2002, 1998 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in anyRead MoreMarketing Management 14th Edition Test Bank Kotler Test Bank173911 Words   |  696 Pagesneed market D) metamarket E) geographic market Answer: D Page Ref: 9 Objective: 2 AACSB: Analytic skills Difficulty: Moderate 22) Automobile manufacturers, new car and used car dealers, financing companies, and insurance companies are all part of the automobile ________. A) marketplace B) marketspace C) metamediary D) marketportal E) metamarket Answer: E Page Ref: 9 Objective: 2 Difficulty: Moderate 23) ________ are basic human requirements, while ________ are the ways