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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 Midnight’s Children
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Midnight's Children is set in the Indian subcontinent, principally during the lead-up to independence and partition that occurred in the first half of the 20th century. In accordance with the magical realism genre, certain places and settings take on a fantastical quality, representing the overwrought drama of the past in memory. In retrospect, the places a person once lived and spaces they once occupied can become symbolic (of youthful innocence, trauma, religious revelation, and so on). Saleem accords such symbolic meaning to many different settings over the course of the narrative.
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