Importance Of Setting In 'On Making An Agreeable Marriage'

Setting a story helps create an image and feeling in a readers mind. It help builds the story. The settings of “On Making an Agreeable Marriage”, “The New Dress”, and “Shooting an Elephant” help the reader understand more of the situations that the novel is placed in. In “The New Dress” setting affects the actions and thoughts of each character. The story is place in the 1920’s. The story is set in this time because Virginia Woolf wrote it in this time period. Mabel is going to a party and in the 1920’s everyone wore short dresses. Everything was flashy and feathery. The party Mabel goes to is set in Mrs. Dalloway’s drawing room. The atmosphere seems welcoming and warm.”My Dear, it’s perfectly charming!”(Woolf). The people are very nice and accepting of Mabel. This helps us learn more about the characters unwillingness to be seen. The setting affects …show more content…
The Story is written and takes place in the 1800’s. This is a time when people really didn’t marry for love. The setting that Jane Austen is in makes her ideas very different than most women of her time. “Anything is preferred or endured rather than marry without affection” (Austen pg. 915). She is telling her niece, in a very loving tone, that she should marry for love. This was a very uncommon thing to do back in the 1800’s in England. Setting is a very important factor in “Shooting an Elephant “. The story takes place in Burma in the 1920’s. This story is told during a time when Burma was under British control. The mood in the country isn’t very friendly towards British officers. “They did not like me but with the magical rifle in my hand I was memorizing to watch” (Orwell pg.1322). Even though he was a British officer, they still needed someone to kill the elephant. The setting is most important here because the shooting of the elephant represents the British Empire dying very and painfully slow