The Eyre Affair By Jasper Fforde: Setting Analysis

In a Parallel Universe What if the Crimean War had gone on for longer than the three years it really had. What if time travel was possible and people were able to visit themselves and give warnings. What if it were possible to enter our novels and change the story. In real life, these are impossible, in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, these things occur everyday. The setting? England, 1985, in the midst of the Crimean War, where Shakespeare is fought over and England itself is a police state. All these affect deeply, how this novel influences the reader. The setting greatly affects the novel and in the case of The Eyre Affair, it could almost define it. Set in 1985 England, where gangs fight over Shakespeare and people can enter