Settings REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
certain time of literary work. Based on Klarer setting is chosen as a complement to story. Set
tings’ appearance is to support action, and character of the literary work. According to Klarer 1999: 26:
Authors hardly ever choose a setting for its own sake, but rather embed a story in a particular context of time
and place in order to support action, characters, and narrative perspective from an additional level.
Based on Hudson, novel have to clearly tell when and where the action of characters takes place and what characters do and suffer in certain time and place.
As stated by Hudson 1913: 171: Fourthly, the action must take place, and the characters
must do and suffer, somewhere and at some time; and thus we have a scene and a time of action.
Then, Klarer reinforced the idea of settings of Hudson. Based on Klarer, setting is a term denotes to place, time and social surrounding the text develops. Klarer
1999: 25 asserts: The term “setting” denotes the location, historical
period, and social surroundings in which the action of a text develops.
There are three kinds of settings, setting of place, setting of social, and setting of time. Setting of place or also known as scene describes where the
actions or events take place. It tells to the reader what characters do and how the characters suffer in certain situation at certain place. As stated by Hudson 1913:
171: Fourthly, the action must take place, and the characters
must do and suffer, somewhere and at some time; and thus we have a scene and a time of action.
Then, setting of social refers to background of character and which environment characters live. It explains to reader about the social status of
character in story, how character grown up and the way of live of character. Hudson 1913: 209 asserts:
In this term we include the entire milieu of a story —the
manners, customs, ways of life, which enter into its composition, as well as its natural background or
environment.
Furthermore, setting of social refers to social surrounding in which the story develops and how the story is treated. It can also be the idea of the story. It gives
the reader about the detail of certain classes or environment. Hudson 1913: 210 asserts:
A certain largeness of design is indeed often noticeable, as in the work of Dickens ; yet, for the most part, life is
rather treated in sections, each novel concerning itself chiefly with one or two aspects of the great social
comedy. Thus we have novels of the sea and of military life ; of the upper classes, the middle classes, the lower
classes of industrial life, commercial life, artistic life, clerical life ; and so on.
Setting of time refers to whenthe historical period in which action develops. It explains for readers what happens in certain place, and how the condition and
situation in that age. It gives picture to readers of way of life, manners, traditions, or even custom of society in certain period of time. According to Hudson 1913:
211: Sometimes the historical setting has comparatively little
to do with the essence of the narrative, the basis of which is provided rather by the permanent facts of
experience than by the forms which these facts assume in special circumstances.