The setting in a story creates the mood of the story. The mood of the story is the feeling it gives off. The two literary works that support this are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.
The setting in Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde is in England. A scene in Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde that evokes a haunting and scary mood is when Mr.Hyde kills Sir Danvers Carew. The setting is an alley on a dark night. There is noone around. Due to the setting which was dark with noone around, the reader is suppose to feel haunted and scared.
The setting in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, is in a chamber that is completely dark. In the middle of the night, the place is completely dark and the narrator is on the act of killing the old man. He brings a light into the old man's room, it reflects on the eyes of the old man that makes him even more scared of his eyes. So he closes all the shutters, here comes the moment of terror in the readers mind.
These two literary works Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. They support the two factors that work together in a story that gives off a feeling to the reader.
