ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Setting. The setting is the physical location of the story, and it can heavily inform a story’s mood. For instance, a story set during a sunny day will be predisposed to a happy or carefree mood, while a story set in a haunted house will be predisposed to a sense of tension or fear.

Detailed explanation-2: -It’s a reciprocal factor: mood informs how the character sees the setting, but the setting also informs the character’s mood-shifting it or intensifying it. Your story may have an overall tone or mood, but every scene is a micro-system of mood that depends on the emotional state and mindset of your character.

Detailed explanation-3: -Settings not only help to clarify a given story’s themes. They can also help us to understand a character’s worldview through how they think about their surroundings.

Detailed explanation-4: -While tone is often said to be what the author feels, what the reader feels is known as the mood. This mood affects readers psychologically and emotionally. We describe mood with adjectives like ‘light-hearted’, ‘nervous’, ‘foreboding’, optimistic’, and ‘peaceful’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Setting is one of the five essential elements of a story. It establishes the mood, reveals characters and conflicts, and gives clues to a story’s theme.