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This 6 page paper discusses the affect that setting has on the conflict experienced by the character. This thesis is supported with examples from Faulkner, Hemingway, Hawthorne, Ibsen, Glaspell, and Updike. Quotes cited from texts. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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sort of obstacle which impedes their acquisition of some sort of goal or destination, which in the end compels them to take risks, engage in actions and interactions that they
ordinarily would have avoided, and in the end, serves to move the plotline forward. This is compounded, it can be said, by a myriad of things, especially the setting and
time period. Characters, it may be said, in literature, or any other plotline, face basic conflicts that may be intensified by the time and place in which they live.
It is the mark of a good book that makes a reader either long for the next book by the author, or consequently wish that the story had been longer
so that they may spend more time with the character. Quite often at the conclusion of a novel, the reader feels as if he or she would like to live
in a place such as exists on the printed page. This is the power of setting(Elements of Fiction). It can be
said that just about any attribute one can ascribe to a character can also be used to describe certain settings. A setting can be calm, at peace with itself, or
seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, or the wild and garish colors of a
Middle Eastern bazaar. Setting can be as active a character in a novel and that without the ingredient of a strong setting, the plot, nor the character can move forward
to the conclusion. The setting, in other words, defines the characters that inhabit it. The clever author, then, it can be said,
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