Utilisation of Setting and Atmosphere in Victorian Short Stories

The world today consists of children roaming the streets, technology taking over the world, and being able to work wherever you'd like but, could you imagine a life without all these things? Believe it or not there was a time in life where these things were very uncommon to see. This would be known as the victorian era. This time period was between 1837 and 1901. Daily life was very different from now. Health, social classes, and fashion are just three examples of how daily life was different in the victorian era.

“In Another Country,” by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story about a few wounded soldiers after World War I. Hemingway uses different techniques to create the mood of despair. Setting, elements of futility, and isolation of the characters develop the mood.

I admire the use of figurative language Dickens uses to paint each and every scene throughout this book. There is a difference between how the setting was described in the middle of the book to now.

The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far

In 2012 a solar storm nearly hit us and if it had hit us we probably wouldn’t be here. However, it completely missed us. Therefore, it is very important for us to understand the sun because it can put our society to its knees and cripple us for a very long

William Wordsworth’s poem, “Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798” (also known as simply, “Tintern Abbey”), was included in the book Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. This was a joint effort between himself and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “Tintern Abbey” remains one of Wadsworth’s most famous poems, and at its printing, the book was completely sold out in two years. The name of the poem reflects the inspiration Wadsworth felt upon visiting the ruins of an old church called Tintern Abbey, with his sister Dorothy.

In the eighteenth century, Gothic story was an extremely popular form of literature, and it has been a major genre since then. "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner are both Gothic horror stories consisting madness and suspense. The Gothic horror story carries particular conventions in its setting, theme, point of view, and characterisation. Both Gilman and Faulkner follow the conventions of the Gothic horror story to create feelings of gloom, mystery, and suspense that are essential for compelling stories.

The actions of Victorians upon a death is a intricate web of rituals and etiquette. In Vanity Fair, William Thackeray gives modern readers a brief glimpse into deep mourning through Amelia Sedley-Osborne.

How Setting Relates to a Book The setting, is what will shape what you’re reading, it answers the “where” and “when” of the story. A setting is essential in a story, because without it the reader does not get a full understanding or the book or really a sense of what is truly happening. The setting shapes the plot, it moves the story. It shapes characters, it gives them more to their personalities.

Yinka Shonibare’s five-part image narration Diary of a Victorian Dandy exhibited in the London Underground invites public transit users to partake in the daily lifestyle of a black Victorian dandy. The irony inherent in the presence of a black dandy as the work’s centerpiece dismisses the functionality of British restrictions set in the Victorian Era by delving into the notions of race and social class. Specifically, by emphasizing the black dandy’s superiority over his white counterparts and introducing a harmonic interplay between lower and upper-tier social classes, Shonibare makes evident to public viewers that Victorian norms favouring upper-class society were not static and could have been transcended in both a racial and social

Never before had the Cosmos mirrored human affairs. Similar to how we were libel to drop both food and bombs over nations threatening our starry-eyed ideology, the sun bestowed upon us both life-giving rays and death. The greatest minds of the time assembled to discern effective ways of shielding humanity from the Sun’s continued malevolence to no avail.

The story “A Rose for Emily,” is set in Jefferson, Mississippi throughout the 1930s, which was deep in the post-Civil War South. The various leveled administration of the Griersons and the general class arrangement of the time where by statute of the chairman Colonel Sartoris, a Negro lady couldn't walk the road without an apron, had changed into a place where even the road on which Miss Emily lived, that had once been the most select, had now been infringed and obliterated, her home a blemish among blemishes. Both the town and herself, now looked upon Miss Emily as the main leftover of that more prominent time. This reality gives the reader a comprehension of the outlook of the "town," who is describing Miss Emily's story to us in what we could say is a gossiping circle, where stories of different townspeople are sorted out and of Miss Emily, the protagonist who lived alone with the exception of her solitary servant. The activities of Miss Emily extend from unusual to crazy yet it is the readers comprehension of the setting that keep the

What is the setting of this story and why do you think the author has used this setting?

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher

great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred,