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: English Literature
PART-I (Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR Questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q. No. 2 Explain how both Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance focus on how the individual must develop and rely on their own moral judgment to become a respected member of society.
Q. No. 3 An ode is a poem of praise. How do John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Ode to Autumn reflect this classical concept?
Q. No. 4 What major tragic aspects of humanity are incorporated into Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers?
Q. No. 5 Describe and analyze the way in which William Shakespeare’s King Lear depicts familial betrayal and disappointment.
Q. No. 6 Explain how the theories of Karl Marx are still relevant to literature today.
Q. No. 7 Contrast the concept of self-love in Somerset Maugham’s The Lotus Eater with the concept of love for others as reflected in Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net.
Q. No. 8 How much of a literary debt does Tennyson’s Ulysses owe to classical Greek and Roman tradition? Comment in detail.
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