睡谷的传说.ppt

1、The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow,睡谷的传说（The legend of the Sleepy Hollow）是美国作家华盛顿欧文(Washington Irving，17831859)创作的著名短篇小说，包含在他的著名散文集见闻札记中。它与华盛顿欧文的另外两篇短篇小说瑞普凡温克尔、鬼新郎被称为“最早的现代短篇小说”。,Author,.,The story is set 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a isolated village called Sleepy Hollow. It tells t

2、he story of Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham “ Brom Bones Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.,Story,Ichabod mysteriously disappears from t

3、own, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related.,As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off in t

4、he America Revolutionary War, and who rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head.,1, Ichabod is fond of superstition, but he is afraid of spirits, including the headless solider. 2, Ichabod and Abraham are both love Katrina Van Tassel. 3, Ichabod s contradiction between dream an

5、d realistic,The Conflict,In the day, he liked to speak about the headless solider surrounded by young ladies. He told about the everything he meet during the night, the owls, the old trees, and the like. Imagining them as evils taking humans form.,First Conflict,However, during the night, especially

6、 when he was alone, he was too startled to nearly everything, the frog singing, the owls crying, water bubbling, all frightened him,The two definitely different behavior shows that he is a complex man. And that is where the comedy lies, even through he appeared as a tragedy character.,Summary,Though

7、 Ichabod bent, he never broke, the moment the pressure was away, he was erect. He preferred to turn this rival under the earth. (just as a schoolmaster),Second conflict,Abraham, as a bully, was tend to put everything on earth, played jokes on Ichabod, laughed at Ichabods idiot behavior. Physically a

8、nd mentally bullied he. (Just as other farmers ),Katrina Van Tassel ,who is not only a beauty ,but the only child of a substantial farmer ,she has a lot of fellows,Van Tassel was born in town, affected by her neighborhood as well as her parents, as a result, she tended to choose the strong Abraham.,

9、Summary,He is considered a kind of idle,but he choose various way to render himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farm, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture,Third Conflict,But, finally, he was drove away by the village. Outside the hollow, he got his place, became a layer, worked for the congress, married a beautiful woman .,Owen demonstrated clever use of the Gothic style of the novel the theme of the conflict between reality and dreams, reveals the profound cha