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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Key Examples in A Clockwork Orange
Part 1, Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis:
The book is set in an unspecified large town or small city in England, sometime in the forseeable future (note that the novel was originally published in 1962). Alex lives in the rougher part of town, which is represented well by the crowd at the Korova Milkbar, where people go to get "milk-plus," or milk laced with drugs. He describes this crowd in Part 1, Chapter 3:
It was nadsats mostly milking and cooking and fillying around (nadsats were what we used to call the teens), but there were a few of the more starry ones, vecks and cheenas alike (but not of the bourgeois, never them) laughing and govoreeting at the bar [...] The devotchkas among them had these very lively litsos and wide big rots, very red, showing a lot of teeth, and smecking away and not caring about the wicked world one bit.
Part 1, Chapter 6
Explanation and Analysis:
The book is set in an unspecified large town or small city in England, sometime in the forseeable future (note that the novel was originally published in 1962). Alex lives in the rougher part of town, which is represented well by the crowd at the Korova Milkbar, where people go to get "milk-plus," or milk laced with drugs. He describes this crowd in Part 1, Chapter 3:
Unlock with LitCharts A+It was nadsats mostly milking and cooking and fillying around (nadsats were what we used to call the teens), but there were a few of the more starry ones, vecks and cheenas alike (but not of the bourgeois, never them) laughing and govoreeting at the bar [...] The devotchkas among them had these very lively litsos and wide big rots, very red, showing a lot of teeth, and smecking away and not caring about the wicked world one bit.
