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SUBJECT: English Literature (Paper-I)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE Questions in All, Including Question No. I Which is Compulsory.
Q1. (A) Explain with reference to the context any one of the following :
I. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep.
The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite… OR
II. A current undersea Picked his bones in whispers. AS he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.
(B) Fill in the blanks (all parts are compulsory)
i. The old man and the Sea was written by___
ii. Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to ___ in 2021.
iii. Crime and Punishment is a novel by___
iv. ___ popularized the Comedy of Hun-lours.
v. Things Fat/ Apart is written by ___
vi. In which year did Ibsen’s A Dolt, Nouse appear ____?
vii. Malvolio is a character In ___.
viii. ___ has defined poetry as “a criticism of life”.
ix. The first English tragedy is ____
x. Whose collection of poems is the leaves of Grass ____
Q2. How “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare may serve as a springboard for other writers. Explain in detail.
Q3. (A) How conflict has been woven in the texture of “Look Back in Anger by Sohn Osborne as an essential thread?
(B)How will you justify Pygmalion. by GB Shaw as a Problem Play?
Q4. The Waste Land combines the old with the new, history with the present, mythology and real life, symbolism and psychic fragmentation… Discuss.
Q5. In his Odes, Keats confronts the conflicting impulses of his inner being and reflects upon his own longings and their relations to the wider world around him. Do you agree?
Q6. Pygmalion is a satire on the rigid class system in England. Substantiate your answer with illustrations from the text.
Q7. (A) Critically Evaluate the poem -The Stone Chat” by Taufeeq Rafat
(B) Critically Evaluate the poem -Morning Star’. by Sylvia Platt’
Q8. How aptly Arthur Miller has conveyed various themes in “Death of a Salesman- by using different kinds of symbols?
SUBJECT: English Literature (Paper-II)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE questions in All.
Q.1 How does Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird critique racial discrimination in America? (20 Marks)
Q.2 Elaborate Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero. (20 Marks)
Q.3 Analyze the salient features of Bapsi Sidhwa’s narrative technique in The Ice-Candy-Man. (20 Marks)
Q.4 Jane Austen is often called a “novelist of limited scope.” Substantiate this view with special reference to her novel Pride and Prejudice. (20 Marks)
Q.5 Does Things Fall Apart present a one-dimensional view of language as a structure that sustains male power? Elaborate with reference to Man Made Language. (20 Marks)
Q.6The Pilgrimage chronicles Paulo Coelho’s spiritual journey. Would it be considered a work of fiction or non-fiction (autobiography)? Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.7 According to Frantz Fanon, what is the effect of colonialism on native culture? (20 Marks)
Q.8 Are Frantz Fanon’s views on nationalism and internationalism similar to those of Edward Said? Discuss. (20 Marks)
