Setting

The term of setting is usually, applied in literature to the local or period in which the action of play takes place. Pickering (1983:37) says that setting encompasses both the physical local that frames the action and the time of day or year, the climatic conditions, and the historical period during which the action takes place. Kenney (1966:39) distinguishes setting as the element of fiction that reveals the where and when of events.

Setting is divided into two kinds: spiritual and physical setting. Physical setting is classified into setting of place and setting of time. Setting of place includes the name of city, village, hotel, room, etc. While setting of time includes date, morning, day, full, moon, etc. Spiritual setting contents of rules, belief and norm (Nurgiyantoro, 1998:218).

Setting is the general local, historical time and social circumstance in which. Its action occurs; the setting of an episode of scene within a work is the particular location in which it takes place (Abrams, 1985:175).

References:

Abrams, M.H. 1985. A Glossary of literary Term. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.

Kenney, William. 1966. How to analyze the fiction. New York: Monarch Press.

Nurgiyantoro, Burhan. 1998. Teori Pengkajian Fiksi. Yogyakarta: Gajah Mada University Press.

Pickering, James H & Jeffery D. Hopper. 1983. Concise Companion to Literature. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co.Inc