Setting in Star of the Sea
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Setting in Star of the SeaBecky Farmer, Ashley Franey, Sam Moheban, and Tiffany Petru
Historical Context• The Great Famine
• Diaspora of the Irish• Growing Irish nationalist movement
• Connemara• Eviction of Tenants• Absentee Landlords
• East End of London• Famous thieves• Vibrant and Diverse
• Irish Immigration to the USA• Quarantine and disease• Anti-Immigration feeling
Victorian Values in the Time Period• Chapter headings• A Time of Troubles
• Values (science, religion, politics (reform/working), gender, social conditions (England head power)
• Mention of famous authors and works• Paradise Lost, Doctor Faustus• Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats
• Role of artists• Merridith: drawing, painting• Dixon: writing/journalism
• Reflects time• “Setting simply has that domineering effect of encompassing the
reader into the world of the writer’s creation.” Sarah Widger, UNL
Murder Set Up• Setting Creates:• Means• Distractions take attention away from murder• Crowds and noise make it easy for murderer to get away
• Motive• Close quarters of the ship heighten tensions• Many sick, starving, desperate passengers
Foreshadowing• Pius Mulvey• “Sea was knife-gray” (O’Connor 24)• Ethan Nichols (UNL) • “This description is both great to the
reader's imagination and foretelling of what kind of killing may come later on.”
• Whale• Head wound• “noble”
• Weather• Storms• Time of day
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