The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Themes

If you could describe Ichabod in one word, what would it be? Ugly as all get out? Oh wait, that's five words. Let's try again, and we'll be less superficial this time. How about greedy? This guy wa...

Boo! Gotcha! Okay sure, the supernatural can be scary, but isn't there more to it? Are there different types? Can it be funny? Is it real or is it total fluff? And most importantly, was it Brom or...

A lot of "Sleepy Hollow" is kind of like a 19th-century episode of Cribs. We get a pretty good idea of what Baltus's pad looks like, and—well, it's pretty awesome. But just like with everything e...

In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the relationship between man and nature is way more convincing than the one between Katrina and Ichabod. Nature is like another character here, and man is it chatt...

Love is a battlefield. But so is the classroom. Oh, and so is the actual battlefield. War is everywhere in this story, which makes sense given that it was written not too long after the American Re...

We're not in Kansas anymore, Shmoopers. Dreams, apparitions, specters—Sleepy Hollow has them all. But here's the question: are they real? Well, that's a question the Sleepy Hollowers have some di...

Irving spends so much time describing the characters in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that you'd probably recognize them if you passed them on the street. (Can the same be said for your other favor...