Setting What is the setting of a story
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Setting What is the setting of a story? What is the setting of this photograph?
• As the place of fiction, setting is generally a physical locale that shapes a story's mood, its emotional aura or quality.
• Real or imaginary, concrete or symbolic, a moment or an eternity, setting is the dramatic backdrop for a story.
Why is Setting Important?
Setting is important because. . . Setting reveals prevailing atmosphere or mood. If the time or place setting of the story changes, consider how the changes alter the outcome of the story.
Setting is important because. . . • Setting shows internal and external conflicts.
Setting is important because. . . • Setting can determine the fate of the protagonist. • Setting often embodies theme.
If 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. “ What types of inferences can we make about the story?
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
Setting may also act. . . • as a challenge providing a test for the character to reveal his or her true self
Setting may also act. . . as an escape which allows more whimsical and fantastic parts of the character to be expressed.
Another impact of setting: • An external force may enter the setting and change it, causing conflict for the characters.
Setting may also act. . . as an antagonist, causing conflict with the main character.
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.
Types of Setting • Physical Setting • Geographical Setting • Cultural Setting • Historical Setting
Physical Setting § § Time of day Season Weather / Temperature Indoors/Outdoors
Physical Setting: § Type of room/building § Objects § Colors § Imagery— 5 senses
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
Cultural Setting: the values, ideals, and attitudes of a place • Physical Cultural Setting & • Non-Physical Cultural Setting
Physical Cultural Setting: • • • Dialogue Clothing Iconography Routines Decoration All of these factors establish the physical cultural setting.
Non-physical cultural setting: • • Education Social standing Economic class Religious belief These factors establish the nonphysical cultural setting.
Historical Setting Time period/Year Role of government Reign of a leader or President Major historical events These historical factors can establish a psychological or sociological understanding of behaviors and attitudes.
Historical Setting More Historical factors: • • • Transportation Crop yield Epidemics Wars Economy Natural disasters
A note about time: Clock time: this can be used to provide suspense or create certain moods or feelings—time is also an important literary symbol. Seasonal time: the seasons or a span of time associated with a particular activity may be important as a symbol.
"Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else. . . Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming? . . . " --Eudora Welty
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