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Definition of Mood
The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. Every aspect of a piece of writing... read full definition
The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes in the reader. Every aspect... read full definition
The mood of a piece of writing is its general atmosphere or emotional complexion—in short, the array of feelings the work evokes... read full definition
Key Examples in Brideshead Revisited
Epilogue
Explanation and Analysis:
The mood throughout Brideshead Revisited is somber and ominous. Charles's omnipresence as the novel's aged military narrator mediates any joy he expresses during a recounting of past events. Only when Charles returns to the present, in the epilogue, does Waugh leave some room for hope:
Something quite remote from anything the builders intended, has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time; a small red flame— a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle [...]. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones.
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