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151868226_ENG_102DL_SettingandINDAFF_2_1.pptSetting and “IND AFF…”
Setting
- More than just the time and place of a work
- Historical, cultural, geographic, social, and political backdrop
- If no time/place is mentioned, consider why (Is the work meant to be universal?)
- A character’s actions can help define him/her and his/her actions
- Consider how the protagonist’s location in “IND AFF…” affects her decision
Sarajevo
Sarajevo
- Location of “IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo”
- Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife by Serbian nationalist Princip Gavrilo in 1914 (6/28) is generally acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I
Sarajevo as Setting for “IND AFF…”
- Princip’s tale parallels the narrator’s
- Was the war, as Peter Piper claims, bound to “start sooner or later”?
- Was Peter Piper’s marriage doomed to fair or pressured into failure by his infidelity with the narrator?
- Climax – when the narrator and Peter Piper are in a restaurant waiting for food (location) and she comes to the realization that she doesn’t actually love Peter Piper
Fay Weldon
- 1931-?
- British novelist, playwrite, and TV and radio scriptwriter
- Known for stories about contemporary women
- Grew up in New Zealand
- Attended St. Andrew’s University in Scotland
- Bio information from Britannica.com
Discussion Board
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