When in London because of the smog you can’t see anything so you feel trapped and confined like in Eel Marsh House, Kipps calls it ‘like a game of blind man’s buff’, this shows how Kipps feels about having his senses trapped and locked out. ‘what figures I could make out...were like ghost figures’ as the fog blinds and the setting is glum and doom this again refers back to how Kipps is a realistic man and doesn’t believe in ghosts so uses this example as if ghosts were not real, Hill also uses the technique of foreshadowing to refer what happens later in the novel. This also relates to how Kipps is feeling when referring back to the thought of the Woman in Black appearing when he visited Crythin Gifford. Pathetic Fallacy also sets the setting of a normal day in London, and how the ‘the miserable weather and lowering to the spirits in the dreariest month of the year’, when Hill refers to the weather using pathetic fallacy she creates the mood to be very miserable and upsetting, like there is no positive side to Crythin Gifford. ‘Dreariest month of the year’ suggests that the town is quite dreary and is like how the houses and people of the town are seen.
This viewpoint is particularly effective in this chapter, as readers, we can relate to the terror and anxiety felt by Arthur. At the start of the chapter he comments on feeling ‘calm and cheerful’ however this state of contentment disappears at the chapter progresses – ‘I sat, too terrified to move’ and ‘my throat felt constricted and I began to shiver.’ In the ghost story genre this technique is effective – we can imagine ourselves in Arthur’s place – reliving his experiences. Hill uses the senses to create a sense of terror in this chapter during which the theme of childhood is developed when Kipps discovers the locked nursery. The use of the bumping sound ‘bump
The ‘rain’ is a negative use of pathetic fallacy, setting a negative tone before they have come together. Fitzgerald uses tiresome vocabulary to describe the scene: the man in the garden ‘dragging’ the lawn mower and the ‘soggy whitewashed alleys’, of which Nick drove through. As the scene is remiss and tired looking, I think this reflects Nick’s feelings upon the help he is providing Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses a tactful method for which Gatsby engages Nick into helping him meet Daisy. He takes him somewhere alone at an odd time of night, which is interesting because at ‘two o’clock’, everything will be deserted, with nobody around therefore Gatsby will expect Nick’s full attention.
In chapter five of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is given life. The opening paragraph makes excellent use of pathetic fallacy, using the weather to set the scene. The first lines of the chapter “it was a dreary night in November” and “the rain pattered dismally against the windowpanes” make obvious use of traditional gothic horror scenery. Victor Frankenstein seems to have mixed emotions at the time of the creature’s birth. He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil.
In the chapter entitled ‘Christmas Eve’ he is in utter darkness as it is late at night. Him being in darkness reduces his visibility of the outside world and therefore makes him isolated. The houses and
How does Sinclair use setting to create atmosphere? In the story, “The Painted Door,” Sinclair Ross creates an atmosphere of bitter cold, extreme isolation and loneliness. The story is set in a cold freezing winter on a very stormy day, “the wind struck from all sides, blustering and furious”. The area around the protagonist’s house is isolated, barren farm land, and “five miles away” from the neighbours. This physical setting gives the reader a good understanding of how and where the story will follow, in what kind of surroundings.
The Painted Door This short story, The Painted Door, revolves around the existence of a storm. Without this setting present nothing of the sort would have occurred amongst the characters. Literally, the winter blizzard portrays itself as a nightmare waiting to happen and naturally creates chaos within relationships. The coldness and sharp touch of the wind causes utter effects on both health and safety, but also limits the attitudes that are demonstrated throughout the day. The married couple is strongly influenced by the actions of this snowstorm by allowing its awful mood to impress onto them.
On the other hand, “Catching Fire’s” setting was placed in the winter time with a dark and gloomy society. Usually, when a person thinks about cold and winter, the setting is thought of as full of death because of the dull surroundings. In the novel, the setting is described when Katniss states, “I push aside the curtains and see the snowstorm has strengthened to a full-out blizzard. There’s nothing but whiteness and the howling wind that sounds remarkably like the mutations” (Collins 121). As it is clearly seen above, the setting in “The Lottery” uses situational irony, whereas in “Catching Fire”, the setting is very
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
Griersons’ home. For the women their explanation was her male servant’s lack of ability to clean properly. “Just as if a man-any man—could keep a kitchen properly”. (Faulkner 31). Judge Steven on the other hand seems to notice that it is the smell of decomposition coming from the home when he states “it’s probably just a snake or rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard”.