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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 Notes from Underground
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Notes from Underground takes place in the 1840s and the 1860s in St. Petersburg, Russia. The first part, where little action occurs and the narrator describes his philosophical musings, takes place in the 1860s, but the story of how he ended up underground, described in Part 2, happens in the 1840s. Dostoevsky wrote the Notes as a response to certain ideas popular in Russia at the time, particularly Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What is To Be Done?, and these ideas are often alluded to throughout the novella, showing The Underground Man's time period.
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