Alias Grace Setting
Setting in Alias Grace
Setting is one of the most important elements exists in every kind of fictions, it represents the time, place, and social context that raised by the novel. By using setting, author creates particular moods, character qualities, or features of theme in order to make his or her work more attractable and vivid. Margaret Atwood successfully uses setting to organize the case of Grace. It is a murder case that happened in Toronto at 1843, due to the background of that period, the case is quiet arguable. However though the nature, human material and culture setting used in the novel, readers are able to experience Grace’s tragic life and establish specific mood about Grace Mark.
First of all, the natural setting is playing …show more content…
It also used as symbol of blood in order to drop a hint for the merciless murder. Once, the Grace family moved to the New Land – Canada, the …show more content…
Except the language and education, the cultural always emphasize the conflicts in the society. In the Alice Grace, the main issue reflects in that period is the social interaction between men and women. When women wear the particular custom, “They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet; or else like the jellyfish in the waters of the rocky harbor near our house.” Through the dresses of women, the author shows the different between men and women. The reason for women wear that is in order to keep distance with men. Later on, when Grace worked with Mary, she is taken to see the street where whores lived. “many of them got diseases, and were old by the time they were twenty, and had to cover their face with paint, so as to deceive the poor drunken sailors. And although they might look very elegant from distance, with feathers and satins, up close you could see that their dresses were soiled and ill-fitting…they scarcely had enough left over for their bread.” Life already force them to be a whore, however, their condition haven’t better than others. Women’s lifestyle is needs to be sympathized and change. In additional, the society recognize “murderess as a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word – musky and oppressive.” This view is a prejudice towards women. According the cultural setting, readers are able understand the society
Setting is one of the most important elements exists in every kind of fictions, it represents the time, place, and social context that raised by the novel. By using setting, author creates particular moods, character qualities, or features of theme in order to make his or her work more attractable and vivid. Margaret Atwood successfully uses setting to organize the case of Grace. It is a murder case that happened in Toronto at 1843, due to the background of that period, the case is quiet arguable. However though the nature, human material and culture setting used in the novel, readers are able to experience Grace’s tragic life and establish specific mood about Grace Mark.
First of all, the natural setting is playing …show more content…
It also used as symbol of blood in order to drop a hint for the merciless murder. Once, the Grace family moved to the New Land – Canada, the …show more content…
Except the language and education, the cultural always emphasize the conflicts in the society. In the Alice Grace, the main issue reflects in that period is the social interaction between men and women. When women wear the particular custom, “They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet; or else like the jellyfish in the waters of the rocky harbor near our house.” Through the dresses of women, the author shows the different between men and women. The reason for women wear that is in order to keep distance with men. Later on, when Grace worked with Mary, she is taken to see the street where whores lived. “many of them got diseases, and were old by the time they were twenty, and had to cover their face with paint, so as to deceive the poor drunken sailors. And although they might look very elegant from distance, with feathers and satins, up close you could see that their dresses were soiled and ill-fitting…they scarcely had enough left over for their bread.” Life already force them to be a whore, however, their condition haven’t better than others. Women’s lifestyle is needs to be sympathized and change. In additional, the society recognize “murderess as a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word – musky and oppressive.” This view is a prejudice towards women. According the cultural setting, readers are able understand the society