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CHAPTER 2 SETTING

CHAPTER 2 SETTING Every Literary work has to take PLACE somewhere ,even if the setting is only minimally implied. Role that setting plays can vary from negligible to vital .It is often provides a good source for images and symbols.

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CHAPTER 2 SETTING

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  1. CHAPTER 2 SETTING Every Literary work has to take PLACE somewhere ,even if the setting is only minimally implied. Role that setting plays can vary from negligible to vital .It is often provides a good source for images and symbols.

  2. A) A literary work can be set anywhere, from inner space of a dream to outer space of science fiction. 1)Some settings are just merely landscape of author’s mind. -Most refer with an implied or an actual setting, but some is general comments on life or outbursts of emotion. Sometime, it is translated into metaphorical landscape terms, which may be reveries, memories , or dreams. While some vaguely suggest setting in the outside world. For example; Emily Dickinson’s outburst of emotion provide good examples. In “Wild Nights”.

  3. WILD NIGHTS! WILD NIGHTS! Wild Nights-Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile-the-Winds- To a Heart in port- Done with the compass- Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden- Ah ,the sea! Might I but moor-Tonight- In Thee!

  4. In this poem ,we hear that the longing of a lonely character, and there will be imagination that these thoughts are provoked by a stormy night and the narrator is lying awake in bed, a solitary soul in a remote place.2) Some external settings are minimal and generic. -Some take place in a setting that is never identified as Specific or real place .Fairy tales and folk tales tend to be vague about locations. For example: Once upon time in a kingdom by the sea…”) -The settings in poem often minimal unnamed, though They give rise to significant experiences. For example In poem of “The Railway Children” by Seamus Heaney. The setting is only described as “ slopes Of the cutting". No country or town is mentioned. It is a generic rural setting.

  5. THE RAILWAY CHILDRENWhen we climbed the slopes of the cuttingWe were eye-level with the white cupsOf the telegraph poles and the sizzling wires.Like lovely freehand they curved for milesEast and miles west beyond us,sagging Under their burden of swallows.We were small and thought we knew nothingWorth knowing.We thought words travelled the wiresIn the shiny pouches of raindrops.Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines,and ourselvesSo infinitesimally scaledWe could stream through the eye of a needle.-The setting is only described as ‘slopes of the cutting’.No country or town is mentioned.It is a generic rural setting.-It doesn’t really matter exactly where the setting is , but the vagueness of location in stories,give them a universal quality.

  6. 3.some literary works take place entirely in dreams. -Dream setting can be effective,suggestive and symbolic.Locations can be realistic or fantastic.It can even shift suddenly.For example;Samuel Taylor’s dream poem Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan or a vision in a Dream.”4.Some settings are pure fantasy-places in imaginary Words. -Imaginary journeys to imaginary places-past,present,or Future-since ancient times.For example; Lewis Caroll’s Alice goes down a rabbit hole into a mad,fantastic world.5.Most literary works have realistic settings. -Literature essentially about human exeperience its easy To empathize with realistic characters in realistic Settings. -A reader does not have to be familiar with specific setting to appreciate the work. Eg: novelm of madame bovary by Gustave Haubert.

  7. 6.Some realistic settings have fictitious names. -To select setting and naming, writers have 3 choices: a) A real place with a real name b) A real place with a fictitious name. c) A real place with a fictitious name.Example: Thomas Hardy used fictitious name Wessex for Dorset, a real county in England, on the other hand,Dorothy Parker simply call NY by its real name.B)The accuracy of the setting depends on importance of the story.In some setting is incidental, main concern is plot or character.In the other,setting plays a major role.In poetry , setting itself sometime the central focus. For example: William Wordsworth writes about countryside above Tintern Abbey.1)Some settings require personal and detailed knowledge -Many use their hometown , or places which they have lived,since they knows it best.For example; It would have been difficult for James Baldwin to write Go Tell It on the mountain if he had not grown up in Harlem.

  8. 2)Some settings do not require an intimate knowledge of the place. -many Hollywood or TV script been set in places never even visited by writer. For example; The Eiffel Tower in Paris, White House in Washington, Big Ben in London. -A high degree of accuracy was not necessary. Central focus of these works was action, adventure,romance,intrigue.For example; Casablanca is not most popular movie at all time, because of the accuracy which the place was depicted, but important because of the love story,conflict,etc. 3)Settings in historical fiction and drama depend on careful research. -Setting should involve a careful and accurate reconstruction of that period. Novel such as I, Claudius by Robert Graves requires a much more through background. -Books with pictures, of historical characters, but of the conflicts, architecture, geographical locations, are useful. -Others, on video tapes and CDs.

  9. 4)Excessive attention to the setting can be distracting,too little attention can lead vagueness.-Degree of accuracy and amount of detail depend on nature of your project.If setting is very significant,must know it well and weare details carefully.If setting not very significant,should not burden your reader with unnecessary details.-Reader always like to know where action is taking place,not be too vague,should be convincing without intrusive.c)The significance of the setting varies from work to work.1)In autobiographical works the setting can tell us something about the author.-Example:Novel of emergence is about the early years and young adulthood of a character.Children are very sensitive to environment, and setting of such novel is significant.2)Sometimes setting itself is main subject of the work.-Example:There have been many attempts to capture way of life in a typical town in America.One of the best is our Town, a play by ThorntonWilder, which is portrait of a fictional place called Grover’s corners,New Hampshire.

  10. 3)Some settings are used symbolically.-Example:In melville’s mobby Dick,the sea,whale and whalling ship all are treated symbolically.It is not just an adventure story;its an ambitious metaphysical masterpiece.4)Some settings present obstacles that influence or determine the action.-Jungles,deserts,rivers,mountains and islands have figured in light or serious literature.-Such settings often difficult in themselves,but when naturel disasters,they truly dramatic stages for suspense,heroism,and disaster.5)Some settings are satirical.-To criticize contemporary life-satire can be very amusing and significant.Have to create convincing imaginary setting, but to have good understanding of real place that is being satirized.

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