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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 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Chapter 6. Progression
Explanation and Analysis:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall takes place in Yorkshire, England in the 1820s amongst the landed gentry class. Half of the novel is centered on Wildfell Hall (and the nearby town of Linden-Car) in Yorkshire and the other half occurs in and around Grassdale Manor (elsewhere in Yorkshire near the coast).
Northern England is known for its moors and dramatic landscapes, elements that Brontë works into her novel, using them to capture Helen’s isolation, as seen in the following passage (told through Gilbert’s point of view):
But sometimes, I saw her myself, – not only when she came to church, but when she was out on the hills with her son, whether taking a long, purpose-like walk, or – on special fine days – leisurely rambling over the moor or the bleak pasture-lands surrounding the old hall.
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