Setting

Setting is essentially the time and place in which a literary text or a play takes place. This includes the time period, the country, the season, and the length of the period of time over which the story takes place. Setting has many properties that can help convey certain moods or tones to a story. For example, if a scene is presented in a stormy setting, the reader can expect a negative event to occur. Likewise, if a scene takes place in a bright, summery day, the reader can expect a positive event to occur. However, sometimes an author or a playwright can set up a dreary scene and present a positive event in that scene to convey irony. In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Austen makes very good use of setting. For example, as she places her novel in a season in which it rains, this helps a very key characteristic of Mrs. Bennett come to light. When Mrs. Bennett strategically sends Jane to the Bingley's on horseback in the rain knowing that Jane will fall ill and thus she will have to extend her stay at the Bingley's, just as Mrs. Bennett wants. Another helpful use of setting in the novel is the time period in which it takes place. Since the novel takes place in 18th century England, Austen is then able to amplify the submissive role of women in society since the novel takes place in a society in which women are especially submissive.

Hamlet Intro

In the various works of William Shakespeare, he thoughtfully manipulates language and speech patterns to convey certain aspects of the play and certain characteristics of characters. As particularly seen in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he utilizes the numerous forms of speech patterns to illuminate the characteristics of and relationships between characters. Shakespeare makes use of linguistic efforts through his juxtaposition of Hamlet and the ghost’s speech patterns. The ghost’s language is very determined and factually based. The ghost’s primary concern is to reveal the truth about the death of Hamlet’s father and to encourage Hamlet to avenge his father’s murderer. Hamlet’s language, however, is much more complex than that of the ghost. His language is easily influenced by the situation he is in and by the general tone of the scene. Hamlet can be very poetic in his language at times, speaking in metaphors for example, but he can also be very short conveying his apparent upset and bothered emotions. Moreover, Shakespeare cleverly employs the ability of differing linguistic tendencies to reveal the contrasting characteristics of Hamlet and the ghost.

Hamlet

Shakespeare gives very distinct voices to each of the characters in Hamlet. Hamlet and King Claudius' voices differ tremendously. Shakespeare fills Hamlet's voice with many methaphors and poetic language to convey his sensitivity and sorrow. Hamlet's language helps the reader connect with and further understand his sadness regarding the loss of his father. The Queen is sensitive to Hamlet's mourning. On the other hand, King Claudius is completely insensitive to Hamlet's mourning and does not seem to care whatsoever. King Claudius' language is extremely stern and assertive. Furthermore, Hamlet and King Claudius' voices contrast with one another in that Hamlet is very snesitive and in touch with his feelings while King Claudius does not even appear to have feelings.

Out Out vs. To an Athelete Dying Young

The tones of the two poems are very different. The first one introduces death very abruptly and through a tonal shift. Outsiders in the first poem also return to their affairs after the boy is declared dead. The first poem also serves to inform about the truths of and attitudes toward child labor. The second poem expresses a sympathetic tone toward death and gradually introduces it through imagery and implications rather than an abrupt insertion of death. The first poem also explains the details of the death while the second is more sensitive toward such a tragedy. The second poem is also very reflective on and cerncerned with the significance of the deceased's life.

Plot

Plot plays a role in Pride and Prejudice through Austen's dilberate sequence of events and placement of conflicts. Austen initially presents the characters to the reader both through telling the reader characteristics of the characters and through illustrating the way in which characters interact with one another. This introduction of the novel's characters is the first stage in a conventional narrative like Pride and Prejudice, exposition. The next stage, the rising action is when Mr. Bingley and Mr.Darcy begin to be involved in the lives of the Bennett daughters. As Elizabeth begins to develop feelings for Mr.Darcy, she discovers that he prevented her sister from marrying Mr.Bingley and therefore presents a conflict that is the climax of the novel. These are the most prominent plot stages in Pride and Prejudice.

While Pride and Prejudice is an example of the most commmon form of plot, The Reader's plot takes a very different form of plot than Pride and Prejudice. In The Reader, events do not necessarily take place in a continuous way. Each of the three parts of the novel have taken place within severl years of each other rather than in a relatively close amount of time. While the plot does chonologically sequence the narrative, characters often refer back to previous events that are influencing the present therefore adding a more complicated depth to the novel. The Reader also has multiple rising actions that lead to multiple climaxes as there are many conflicts and emotional complexities.

Comparison of Woodchucks and Traveling through the Dark

Both Woodchucks and Traveling through the Dark focus on animals. Mixine Kumin's Woodchucks' speaker is primarily concerned with the execution of animals while William Stafford's Traveling through the Dark's speaker is concerned with the salvation of animals. The speaker's tone in Woodchucks can be catagorized as aggressive and apathetic toward the killing of the woodchcks. The speaker's tone in Traveling through the Dark expresses a concerned tone toward the tragedy of the dead deer's unborn fawn. Furthermore, while these two poems express contrasting tones toward the execution of animals, they do have one similarity: each of the poems conveys the implication that animals are burdensome; the woodchucks destroy the vegetable patch, flowers, etc. and the dead deer acts as an obstacle in the middle of the narrow road.