SoF - Setting Flashcards
What key points could you put in your intro?
- Doyle employs contrasting settings to assist with thematic switches
- Urban London - Coupled with effective weather - Both wild frenzy and tense imminence
- Desolate India - Tension created through isolation and conflict
- Combination of 2 settings - Evil in both - avarice
What is paragraph 1 about?
Urban London is used to create mystery. Dark motifs reflects mystery and unknown, moments of light symbolise progression of the case
What quotes can you use in paragraph 1?
“Mud-coloured clouds drooped sadly”
“Eerie and ghostlike… endless procession of faces” - Setting more alive than people
“Moonbeam struck one corner “ vs “Plunged in shadow”
What AO3 can you use in paragraph 1?
The rapidly growing population of Victorian England would have facilitated the use of such a crowded and seemingly endless setting - critical for creation of mystery
What is paragraph 2 about?
Urban london is used to create panic and frenzy, increasing in a climax. Quick succession of places is used to build up tension, before a sudden stop in a tranquil place holds the tension at a climax
What quotes can you use in paragraph 2?
“Priory Road. Lark Hall Lane. Stockwell Place”
Dark motif vs “Single glimmer”
“venomous menacing eyes amid the white swirl of waters”
What is paragraph 3 about?
Desolate Andaman Island and India setting - Used to create mystery and tension
What quotes can you use in paragraph 3?
“Broad winding river on the twinkling lights”
“Swarming with fanatics and fierce devil worshippers”
“Beating of drums, rattle of tomtoms, and the yells and howls of the rebels, drunk with opium and with bhang”
What AO3 can you use in paragraph 3?
The continuous hellish motifs surrounding Agra would have been especially effective on Victorian readers due to the Christian religious makeup of the country at the time, only helping to create tension
What key points can you put in your conc?
- Doyle makes use of several contrasting settings in SoF
- They facilitate the sudden switches in theme and mood, and are critical in mirroring the progress of the novel
