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Mood

Mood. Mood. Definition : The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience. Mood Example : Fantasia frequently uses music and setting to drastically shift the mood from light and playful to dark and foreboding.

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Mood

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  1. Mood

  2. Mood • Definition: The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience.

  3. Mood Example: Fantasia frequently uses music and setting to drastically shift the mood from light and playful to dark and foreboding.

  4. Creating Mood Through Setting • A particular setting • provides support to the contents of the story • sets the mood for the readers. • Examples: • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn • The Great Gatsby • The Harry Potter series • Star Trek and Star Wars

  5. Creating Mood through Tone • The tone • The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject • Readers always rely on the writer’s point of view • They observe the story through the writer’s eyes • They feel the way the writer feels about the events taking place • The attitude of the writer evokes the feelings and emotions in the readers • Creates the mood • Robert Frost in his poem “The Roads Not taken” creates gloominess feeling through his tone: “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” • “sigh” that gives the above lines an unhappy tone • evokes an unhappy mood • convinces us into thinking that he regrets a choice he made in the past.

  6. Creating Mood through Diction • Diction is the choice of words a writer uses. • conveys deep feelings • the events, places and characters, • having an effect on the way the readers feel • Look at the following lines from Jonathon Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travel”: • “And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-fights…” • In order to create feelings of disgust in readers • destructive consequences of war, • the writer chooses words that are unmelodious, harsh and jarring.

  7. Function of Mood • Helps in creating an atmosphere in a literary work • setting, theme, diction and tone. • It evokes various emotional responses in readers • ensures their emotional attachment to the literary piece they read. • Once the readers are emotionally stirred, • they fully comprehend the message

  8. Homework • Describe two moods created in two of the books we have read.

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