![]() ![]() ![]() When, in the end, Grandmamma and her grandson return to this house, it just needs to be adapted to the needs of a mouse. Leaving Norway for England, in some ways, feels like leaving a security blanket behind. The feeling of being inside a nice, warm house on a cold, snowy evening is always comforting, and that's the sense that we get from this place. Our narrator describes his grandma's "majestic" armchair, and says that "he curtains were never drawn, and through the windows I could see huge snowflakes falling slowly on to an outside world that was as black as tar" (2.14). We don't get a huge description, but we can say one thing for sure: it's cozy. Norway has a special place in Grandmamma's heart, and her house is really all we see of it. With that in mind, though, the rest of the setting – the more physical aspects – are a little more familiar to us. We have to suspend disbelief – that means we can't say, "But wait, that's not possible! There's no way a human can turn into a mouse!" It is possible in this world. Instead, we are in a fantasy world where witches exist. The most important thing to remember about the setting of The Witches is that we are not in our own world. Norway and England A World in Which Witches Exist
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