Blog #3- Setting

For all the action that goes on and the conflicts that arise in almost any novel, the setting is what provided the environment and background that influenced each character's decisions.  Setting is the time period, location of the story, and everything inside where the story happens.  In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the setting of a rural England in the 19th century provides the background from which the stories characters their attitude and development of on one hand the lower country folk and the affluent city folk.  This setting drives the conflict such as with the snootiness of the Bingley sisters and also provides the conflict of the marriage of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in terms of social classes.