Topic: Your novels will cover several different settings. These settings include both the outdoors and the interiors of any castles / chateaus. Please discuss your various settings, using quotes to help support your theories. Remember to include page numbers with your quotes. Visit other sites to discover similarities and differences; comment on those other sites.
So, I think this would be a good Discussion to start on as our book opens with the setting.
The setting is peaceful and tranquil and I think it is where everyone would want to live. "they would seek one of these green recesses, which so beautifully adorn the bosom of these mountains, where, under the shade of the lofty larch, or cedar, they enjoyed their simple repast, made sweeter by the waters of the cool stream, that crept along the turf, and by the breath of wild flowers and aromatic plants, that fringed the rocks, and inlaid the grass."
Obviously the setting will change from peaceful to quite possibly frightning. So this discussion could be made into comparing the multiple setting to each other.
I agree.
ReplyDeleteInferring from what we have read in the opening pages of the book, the setting will play a pivotal role in the outcome of the novel. On page 6, Emily states that along with her father, it was one of their earliest pleasures to "ramble among" the scenes of nature.
Yeah.... the setting is very peacful and calm, but what I noticed is that on page 6 when Emily walks "to a little fishing-house... in a woody glen," the setting becomes mysterious and creepy. I say this because she finds that message for an UNKNOWN recipient and she is suspicious and uncertain about it. Her feelings help to descibe the setting and atmoshphere of the story.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the idea that it is somewhat creepy because of the message and the ring going missing all around the same time. The contrast is intriguing, and probably on purpose--do you think?
ReplyDeleteMy setting in my book, Wuthering Heights, also plays an important role in setting the pace of the novel. The land's characteristics, whether permanent or temporary, such as a thunderstorm, mirror changes occuring in the plot. From the standpoint of an author, such a detail would be heightened in this manner in order to make the comprehension of the book's events easier.
ReplyDeleteNow with a change in "permanent setting"(not including the travels of St. Aubert and Emily) it seems to have turned mysterious and frightening. Udolpho already seems like a place that would be inhabited by ghost or other supernatural events. This is just a case of the author combining 2 elements of gothic literature into one part.
ReplyDeleteAs Nick previously stated, the travels of St. Aubert have turned into frightening moments. One minute, St. Aubert and Emily are gazing at the marvelous beauties of nature, and then the next, they are pulling their pistols at gypsies. This change of setting from calm and peaceful to mysterious and frightening occurs throughout the story.
ReplyDeleteThese changes also give the reader a climax of emotions and feeling which is a main characteristic of gothic literature.
ReplyDeleteSo where would you rather be? the castle, or the pleasent countryside?
ReplyDeleteI myself would rather be at the castles because i like spontanious events and obviously the castle has those that a grove couldn't.