8.2 SettingCharactersv中级英语写作.pdf

Unit8 Setting 8.2 How does the setting interact with the characters? A.How the setting reveals identities •The props in the place : •Artifacts and architecture • Infrastructure • Books • Food • Fabrics •Tools and technology ➢Example 1 One of the king’s ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice . Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance . When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena . All the people would gather in this building . The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign . A door under him opened . The accused person stepped out into the arena . Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike . The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them . He could open whichever door he pleased . (from “The Lady or the Tiger?”) • Kingdom : a vague indication of totalitarianism • Arena : despotic ruling • Chair : symbol of supreme power ➢Example 2 The child looked round the room as she took her seat. There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over ; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog’s-eared books upon a high shelf …Displayed on hooks upon the wall in all their terrors, were the cane and ruler …But, the great ornaments of the walls, were certain moral sentences fairly copied in good round text, and well -worked sums in simple addition and multiplication , evidently achieved by