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Lesson 12 Setting

The document discusses key aspects of setting in storytelling including physical environment, sociological environment, psychological environment, mood, and atmosphere. It defines setting as the time and place where events occur and notes that setting helps establish mood. It describes three main dimensions of setting - physical (time, place, weather), sociological (culture, social norms), and psychological (feelings evoked by a place). Mood and atmosphere are created through using setting details to evoke emotions in the reader. Examples are provided to illustrate how setting is used.

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Lesson 12 Setting

The document discusses key aspects of setting in storytelling including physical environment, sociological environment, psychological environment, mood, and atmosphere. It defines setting as the time and place where events occur and notes that setting helps establish mood. It describes three main dimensions of setting - physical (time, place, weather), sociological (culture, social norms), and psychological (feelings evoked by a place). Mood and atmosphere are created through using setting details to evoke emotions in the reader. Examples are provided to illustrate how setting is used.

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SETTING AND ATMOSPHERE

Describe the following places:

• Your classroom after class hours


• A shopping mall during holidays
• Your bedroom
• Your favourite hangout in school
• A cemetery on All Saints Day
Setting
• Refers to the time and place in which an
event happens.
• Where a story happens is also called a locale.
• The setting can do more than plot events. It
can also establish the atmosphere or mood of
a story or of a specific scene.
Setting
• But more than the place and time, setting
signifies a bigger environment or
surrounding.
• A story become more realistic if you are able
to incorporate the different dimensions of
setting.
Aspects/ Dimensions of Setting
1. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
–This refers to all things or characteristics that are
discernible, such as shapes, colors and textures,
natural features, and landscapes.
–This may also include physical details, such as the size
of a room, an unmade and dirty bed, or a drop of
water on the floor.
1. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Place- geographical location; “Where is the
action of the story taking place?”
Time- Historical period, time of day, year,
etc. “When is the story taking place?”
Weather Conditions- Is it rainy, sunny,
stormy, etc.?
2. SOCIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
• This refers to the cultural, economic and political
attributes of a place and its inhabitants.
• It reflects the inhabitants’ understanding and
experience of the world they live in as well as
their beliefs and attitudes about people and the
roles they perform in the society, the norms and
taboos as well as the dynamics and dimensions of
culture and traditions.
2. SOCIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
• Social Conditions- What is the daily life of the
characters like?
Does the story contain local color (writing that
focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs,
etc. of a particular place)?
2. SOCIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
• Cultural backdrop/ Social Context/ Time Period
-The stream of life of the charcters, their
occupations, and daily manner of living.
- The religious, mental, emotional, moral,
social, political, and economic milieu through which
the character move.
3. PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
• It refers to the “personality” of a place used as the
setting.
• For example, the old mansion is dreary (dull,
lifeless, miserable, gloomy), the neighbourhood is
“cheerful”, the forest is dangerous, challenging,
etc.
MOOD OR ATMOSPHERE
• The element that evokes certain feelings or
emotions in the reader.
• What feeling is created in the story? Cheerful or
scary?
• When the writer describe the shadows, light,
colors, shapes, smells, and sounds, they are using
the setting to create distinctive moods.
MOOD OR ATMOSPHERE

• The moods created can be described using


emotion-based adjectives such as: sad,
gloomy, foreboding, suspenseful, ominous,
dreary, tragic, hopeless, happy, romantic, or
mysterious.
Examples:
The windows of the drawing-room opened on to a
balcony overlooking the garden. At the far end, against the
wall, there was a tall, slender pear tree in fullest, richest
bloom; it stood perfect, as though becalmed against the
jade-green sky. Bertha couldn't help feeling, even from this
distance, that it had not a single bud or a faded petal. Down
below, in the garden beds, the red and yellow tulips, heavy
with flowers, seemed to lean upon the dusk. A grey cat,
dragging its belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one,
its shadow, trailed after. The sight of them, so intent and so
quick, gave Bertha a curious shiver.
Examples:
The public-houses, with gas-lights burning inside, were
already open. By degrees, other shops began to be unclosed, and a
few scattered people were met with. Then, came straggling groups
of labourers going to their work; then, men and women with fish-
baskets on their heads; donkey-carts laden with vegetables; chaise-
carts filled with livestock or whole carcasses of meat; milk-women
with pails; an unbroken concourse of people trudging out with
various supplies to the eastern suburbs of the town. As they
approached the City, the noise and traffic gradually increased; when
they threaded the streets between Shoreditch and Smithfield, it had
swelled into a roar of sound and bustle.
-Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist”
Examples:
It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have
been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as
matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black … It
had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-
smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows
where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and
where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously
up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of
melancholy madness.

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