Matakuliah : G0302/Introduction to Literature
Tahun
: 2007
Introduction
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Setting
By the setting of a story, we mean its time and place with its
environment.
The setting is important because it can make things
happen
It can prompt characters to act, bring them to realizations,
or cause them to reveal their inmost natures.
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Setting
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There are three kinds of setting:
Setting of place
Setting of time
And social setting
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Setting of place
• Where the story takes place is called its locale such as a
house, a street, a city, a landscape, a region
• This physical places are important to many writers
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Setting of time
• Setting may involve the time of the story—hour, year, or
century.
• The story may take place at dawn, or on the day of the
first moon landing.
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Physical place
• It is very important to a regional writer, who usually sets
stories (or other work) in one geographic area.
• Such a writer, often a native of the place, tries to bring it
alive to readers who live no matter where
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Physical place
• Not that every writer of stories in which a place matters
greatly will draw the characters as helpless puppets of
their environment.
• Few writers do so, although that may be what you find in
novels of naturalism—fiction of grim realism, in which the
writer observes human characters like a scientist
observing ants, seeing them as the products and victims
of environment.
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Social setting
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Society
Social values
Social norms
Its people and tradition
Customs
Social system
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