Setting is the time and place in which the action of narrative is set. In short stories, poetry, novels, and non-fiction, setting is generally created by description whereas in drama setting is usually established by stage directions and dialogue.
Setting in fiction is one of the five elements (Plot, Character, Point of View, Theme, and Setting), In addition to establishing the background in which the action takes place, setting can also create mood or emotional...
Setting is the time and place in which the action of narrative is set. In short stories, poetry, novels, and non-fiction, setting is generally created by description whereas in drama setting is usually established by stage directions and dialogue.
Setting in fiction is one of the five elements (Plot, Character, Point of View, Theme, and Setting), In addition to establishing the background in which the action takes place, setting can also create mood or emotional atmosphere.
Edgar Allan Poe makes great use of setting for creating an emotional atmosphere. For instance, in his story "The Fall of the House of Usher," the family mansion is a Gothic setting of a decaying mansion helps to underscore the decadence and disease within the Usher family itself. In another story of Poe's, "The Cask of Amontillado," the setting of the catacombs creates an eeriness and the suggestion of death that relates to the narrator's plot to kill another man.
Historical settings play important roles in narratives. In A Tale of Two Cities, for instance, the two settings of Paris and London play important roles in the plot that deals with the French Revolution as action pertinent to this upheaval takes place in Paris, actions involving aristocrats and peasants. other actions that connect to Paris are in the setting of London.
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