One day the governess ordered our coachman to stop at several shops, where the beggars, watching their opportunity, crowded to t
he sides of the coach, and gave me the most horrible spectacle that ever a European eye beheld. There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body. There was a fellow with a wen in his neck, larger than five wool-packs; and another, with a couple of wooden legs, each about twenty feet high. But the most hateful sight of all, was the lice crawling on their clothes. I could see distinctly the limbs of these vermin with my naked eye, much better than those of a European louse through a microscope, and their snouts with which they rooted like swine. Which setting does the passage above indicate?
In the literary genre, setting indicates the time and place in which the progression of the story occurs. It gives a vivid description of the background of the story and helps in creating the mood of the story. The details regarding society, era, weather, place and about the surrounding where the characters live are explained through the setting.
