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Setting
When and where a story takes place
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As the place of fiction, setting is generally a physical locale that shapes a story's mood, its emotional aura or quality.
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Real or imaginary, concrete or symbolic, a moment or an eternity, setting is the dramatic backdrop for a story.
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Why is Setting Important?
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Setting is important because...
Setting reveals prevailing atmosphere or mood
Time and place affect the outcome of the story.
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• setting shows internal and external conflicts • setting highlights potential contrasts between
characters or ideas
Setting is important because...
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• setting can determine the fate of the protagonist• setting reflects character and often embodies
theme.
Setting is important because...
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Victor Frankenstein does all of his experiments in “a solitary chamber, or rather a cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a staircase…”
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…we might conclude that there is something anti-social, isolated, and stale, maybe even unnatural, about his project and his way of learning.
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Roles of Setting How does Setting function in literature?
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Roles of Setting: • as a mirror to
reflect what is going on inside the characters
• as a mold to shape the characters into who they are
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Setting may also act...
• as a challenge providing a test for the character to reveal his or her true self
• as an alien setting that creates a sense of exile and loss
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as an escape which allows more whimsical and fantastic parts of the character to be expressed.
Setting may also act...
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An external force may enter the setting and change it, causing conflict for the characters.
Another impact of setting:
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Setting may also act...As an antagonist, causing conflict with the main character
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Two settings may also come into conflict with each other, causing conflict in the characters who must live in them and perhaps have to choose between them.
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Types of Setting
• Physical Setting
• Geographical Setting
• Cultural Setting• Historical Setting
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PHYSICAL SETTING Types of Setting
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Physical Setting
Time of day Season Weather / Temperature Indoors/Outdoors
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Physical Setting: Type of
room/building
Objects
Colors
Imagery—5 senses
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GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING Types of Setting
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Geographical Setting Location, including
• country (Japan, Mexico, Scotland)
• region (north/south, upper/lower end)
• state / city• neighborhood• street• floor/level (basement, attic etc...)
• urban / rural / suburban
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CULTURAL SETTING:Types of Setting
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Cultural Setting: the values, ideals, and attitudes of a place
• Physical Cultural Setting
&
• Non-Physical Cultural Setting
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Physical Cultural Setting: • Dialogue• Clothing• Iconography• Routines• Decoration
All of these factors establish the physical cultural setting
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Non-physical cultural setting:
• Education• Social standing• Economic class• Religious belief
These factors establish the non-physical cultural setting
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HISTORICAL SETTING Types of Setting
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Historical Setting Time period/Year Reign of a leader or President
Role of government Major historical events
These historical factors can establish a psychological or sociological understanding of behaviors and attitudes.
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Historical Setting
More Historical factors:
• Transportation• Crop yield• Epidemics• Wars• Economy• Natural disasters
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Clock time:This can be used to provide suspense or create certain moods or feelings—time is also an important literary symbol.
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Seasonal timeThe seasons or a span of time associated with a particular activity may be important as a symbol.
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"Every story would be
another story, and
unrecognizable if it took
up its characters and
plot and happened
somewhere else...”
--Eudora Welty
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End of presentation.