Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 11 AIL 1039 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Setting as Argument
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The idea
Dickens gives the schoolroom as a plain, bare, monotonous vault. Three adjectives and a noun that belongs to a tomb. Setting is rarely neutral in prose that has a case to make, and its adjectives can usually be read as a comment on the people inside it.
In practice
A vault, plain, bare, monotonous.
Where people slip
The room comments on the man.
Your place on the trail
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