Atmosphere - UPSC

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Atmosphere is the emotional tone pervading a section or the whole of a literary work, which fosters in the reader expectations as to the course of events, whether happy or (more commonly) terrifying or disastrous. E.g. the tense and fearful atmosphere: Shakespeare establishes the tense and fearful atmosphere at the beginning of Hamlet by the terse and nervous dialogue of the sentinels as they anticipate a reappearance of the ghost. E.g.Terror: Coleridge engenders a compound of religious and superstitious terror by his description of the initial scene in the narrative poem Christabel. ...