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The Importance Of Setting In The Prince And The Pauper

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A setting is just as good as it’s plot, characters, and it’s themes. Well the setting of a story is what brings a book or novel to life. The setting, gives it’s very own depth and detail into the world that is created with words. It is one of the most important subjects within a book. The setting helps create and develop the plot, but also it develops and creates the characters within the book. Like in The Prince and the Pauper, the setting affects the plot greatly and gives the characters their personalities, their heritage and helps develop them, through the book. Each character is affected by the setting, most of them in the same way, but I will be getting more in depth with each of the main characters that were affected by the setting …show more content…

Edward was in fact a real historical king of England. He was the son of the great Henry VIII. Now the big question here is how does the setting impact Edward Tudor? Well, Edward Tudor was the Prince of Wales and soon the King of England, once his father had died. In a way Edward is the political setting of this novel, as it takes place during his fathers rule, as well as his. His father being the political setting in the beginning gives him his beginning character. In the beginning Edward is very royal, formal and has the dedication to becoming a true leader, except Edward has a slight problem. He feels to captive. Edward never gets to experience the life of a worker person or a peasant, he doesn’t know the feeling of not being attached to a certain duty, and in this case, the duty as the Prince of Wales. You see the political setting affects Edward, as well as the physical. When Edward switches clothes with Tom and is forced out of his home as the pauper Tom, Edward has to go through the whole city and through all its unnatural and awful dangers, including the sewage of the lower levels of London, and the poorly built structures. The poverty and setting of Offal court, change Edwards perspective on the people of his city, and what harsh conditions they live through. Edward going through all these drastic conditions affects his viewpoint, his experiences and his over all

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