Similarities Between The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow And Young Goodman Brown

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In the story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, set in the ghostly town of Sleepy Hollow, infamous for its legendary superstition of a Headless Horseman. It tells the story of its resident, the town pedagogue Ichabod Crane and his attempts to win the heart of the wealthy Katrina Van Tassle. In the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne tells about an incident with a man named Goodman Brown who leaves his wife Faith and is lead by a traveler to a witch meeting in the woods to portray to him that all that he thought was good is evil. Both stories contain some similarities, for example the settings depicted in the stories are alike. In “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the rising action takes place in the dark haunted

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