Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC)
Competitive Examination for Recruitment to BPS-17 Posts under the Federal Government
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100 Marks
Paper-I: English Literature
PART-I (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II selecting TWO questions from EACH SECTION. (20×4)
PART-II
SECTION-I
Q. 2 Define Romanticism and narrate its influence on Romantic Literature in the early 19th century.
Q. 3 Write a critical note on Shelley’s Utopianism.
Q. 4 “Byron was the melodramatic exploiter of his own emotions.” Discuss.
Q. 5 Critically analyze the proportion of imagination and reality in Keats’s Odes.
SECTION-II
Q. 6 Browning did not invent the “dramatic monologue” but made it particularly his own. Discuss.
Q. 7 Discuss the roles of Ruskin and Carlyle in the development of Victorian prose.
Q. 8 Do you agree with the view that Dickens is a social novelist? Discuss with reference to his major novels.
PAPER-II
PART-2 (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
SECTION-I
Q. 2 “Frailty thy name is woman” Explain why Hamlet feels so?
Q. 3 “Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” presents the nothingness, uncertainty and hopelessness of modern man”. Discuss.
Q. 4 Critically evaluate the theme of Shaw’s “Pygmalion”.
Q. 5 Do you agree with the view that Swift’s “The Gulliver’s Travels” symbolizes the inner turbulences of human beings?
SECTION-II
Q. 6 Frost’s poems reveal that he is a poet of practical problems of common man. Discuss.
Q. 7 Discuss the significance of the title of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice.”
Q. 8 In “The Second Coming” Yeats presents the idea of a new civilization headed by the “Rough Beast.” Discuss.
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