English Literature

9. YEAR 2011 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Choose two poems from your course and explain in detail how poets give us a fresh view of things through the use of poetic language. 2. Write a critical note no Painter by John Ashbury. 3. Critically evaluate the poem Still Citizen Sparrow by Richard Wilbur. 4. Discuss the symbolic significance of the title Jazz by Morrison. 5. What are the main thematic concerns that Miller explores in the play The Crucible? 6. "A harrowing domestic tragedy, the play offers a clear insight into human psyche." Discuss with close reference to the play Mourning Becomes Electra. 7. Hemingway has been praised by critics for his meticulous craftsmanship and dramatic understatement. Illustrate these qualities by referring closely to the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. 

9. YEAR 2011 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Bacon stands out among English moralists on more counts than one. Elaborate with special reference to his essays. 2. Produce evidence from Gulliver's Travels, especially Book IV to prove of disprove that Swift was a misanthrope. 3. Russell was apposed to all obscurantism, mysticism and dogmatism. How far has he incorporated this approach in his 'Unpopular Essays'? 4. Can we take 'Redress of Poetry' by Heaney as yet another defense of poetry in the long row of such books, or is it something different, something more elaborate, something more eloquent? 5. How powerfully has Said presented the case of colonised nations in his 'An Introduction to Culture and Imperialism"? 6. Compare and contrast the prose style of Bacon and Swift. 7. Write a detailed note on 17th century prose touching upon those writers who are not included in your course. 

9. YEAR 2011 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. How far do you think that the ending of George Eliot's Adam Bede is effective? 2. Critically examine the events and characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in the light of the title of the novel. 3. Discuss Trollope's presentation of character and setting in Barchester Towers. 4. "The presence of the vast passionless heath puts the human movements into perspective as the senseless hurrying of arts". Discuss with reference to Thomas Hardy's presentation of Egdon Heath in Return of the Native. 5. Critically analyze Dickens' narrative technique and style in A Tale of Two Cities. 6. Compare and contrast the Bennet sisters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following: (i) Hardy's Fatalism (ii) A Character Sketch of Elizabeth Bennet (iii) Characterization in Trollope (iv) Dickens' Humour

9. YEAR 2011 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) Yea, what remains to see, Or what to love, or hear, With any touch of joy? Lead me away, my friends, with utmost speed, Of all men most accursed, Most hateful to the Gods. (ii) Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done? Damned art thou, Faustus, damned; despair and die! Hell calls for right, and with a roaring voice Says "Faustus come! thine hour is almost come!" And Faustus now will come to do the right. (iii) Whilst I remember Her and her virtues, I cannot forget My blemishes in them, and so still think of The wrong I did myself; which was so much, That heirless it hath made my kingdom and Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man Bred his hopes out of. (iv) Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? Was  not aware of the Mr. Bunbury w

9. YEAR 2011 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No.1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following: (i) As virtuous me passe mildly away, And whisper to their soules, to goe, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some, say no. (ii) And use my life in quietness eacy dele, Unknown in court that hath the wonton toys; (iii) The faithful wife, without debate: Such slees as may beguile the night: Content thyself with thine estate, Neither wish death, nor fear his might. (iv) Great chiere made oure fear us everichon, And the soper sette he us anon, And serve us with vitalle at the beste: Strong was thy wyn and wel to drynke us leste. (v) Oft, when the world imagine women stray, The sylphs through mystic mazes guide their way, Through all the giddy circle they pursue, And old impertinence expel by new. (vi) All is not lost: the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal ha

8. YEAR 2010 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. The most forceful theme can be conveyed through the images in a poem. Elaborate with close reference to a least TWO poems from your course. 2. Write a detailed critical note on Final Notation by Adrienne Rich. 3. Critically evaluate the poem Your by Sylvia Plath. 4. Discuss the character and role of Dorcas and Felice. By what particular devices and effects does Morrison portray them in her novel Jazz? 5. O'Neil's Mourning Becomes Electra is a tragic melodrama of heroic proportions. Elaborate. 6. Arthur Miller's The Crucible exemplifies his contention that tragedy is possible in the modern theatre and that its proper hero is the common man. Discuss in detail. 7. Discuss Jordan's relationship with Maria in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Do you find Maria a convincing character? Notes Prepared By: Prof. Shahbaz Asghar

8. YEAR 2010 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Bacon claimed that he had taken all knowledge to be his province. Uphold or reject this claim with solid arguments from his essays. 2. How far would the lot of humanity have changed if men had adopted absolute rationality of Houyhnhnms? Discuss with reference to 'Gulliver's Travels'. 3. Can we check the social, economic and political decline if we succeed in making our teachers impartial and neutral in the real sense of the word? Elaborate with reference to Russell's 'Unpopular Essays'. 4. What does Edward Said men when he talks of the dominating and the dominated cultures? Is it still the same? 5. Does poetry really balance and counterweight even in the present day world as claimed by Seamus Heaney in his 'Redress of Poetry'? 6. Write a detailed note on 17th century prose, especially non-fictional. 7. Why is Bacon's prose style called aphoristic? 

8. YEAR 2010 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. "George Eliot's Adam Bede is nothing but Adam's growth to maturity through a process of suffering". Substantiate. 2. "Pride and Prejudice is simultaneously high comedy, devastating satire and compassionate panorama". Critically comment. 3. "Trollope's Barchester Towers is a picture of common life enlivened by humour and sweetened by pathos." Substantiate. 4. Critically examine the significance of Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native. 5. Examine in detail the picaresque elements in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. 6. Critically evaluate how Jane Austen has integrated social concerns of her age in Pride and Prejudice. 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following: (i) Revival of Twentieth Century Interest in Trollope (ii) The Rendering of Male Characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (iii) Hardy's Pessimism (iv) Dickens' Narra

8. YEAR 2010 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood: Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light and then put out the light. (ii) London society is full of women of the highest Birth who have, no their own free choice, Remained thirty five for years. (iii) Forth from the borders thrust me with all speed, Set me within some vasty desert where No mortal voice shall greet me any more. (iv) Thou dearest Perdita. With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not, The mirth of the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair, Or not my father's. For I cannot be Mine own, nor anything to any, if I be not thine.

8. YEAR 2010 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following: (i) As on great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe. (ii) One short sleep past, wee wake eternally And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die. (iii) Then flash'd the living lightening from her eyes And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies (iv) All is possible! Who so believe, Trust therefore first and after preve. (v) Of twenty year of age he was, I guesse Of his stature he was evene lengthe And wonderly delyvere and greet of strengthe (vi) The mean diet, no dainty yare Wisdom joined with simpleness (vii) Farewell happie fields Where joy forever dwells: Hail Horrors Hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive they new possessor. 2. How far do you thin Pope's Rape off the Lock breaks fr

7. YEAR 2009 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems: (i) Melodic Train by John Ashbery (ii) After the Last Bulletin by Richard Wilbur 2. Write a detailed note on the feminist themes in Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich. 3. Discuss the confessional element in the two Bee Poems by Sylvia Plath. 4. What is the symbolic significance of the title of Jazz (Toni Morrison) 5. Discuss O'Neil as a pioneer in the use of myths on the modern stage with close reference to the play Mourning Becomes Electra. 6. 'Varied intense drama'. Justify this estimate of Miller's play The Crucible. 7. Can Hemingway be discussed as being sentimentally obsessed with violence. Discuss with close reference to the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.  

7. YEAR 2009 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Bacon was nothing if not a pragmatist who based his ethical prescription on a sound knowledge of human nature. Elaborate. 2. Arguing from your study of 'Gulliver's Travels', discuss Swift as a wounded moralist who never forgave the world. 3. What according to Bertrand Russel is the necessary connection between philosophy and politics? 4. Highlight the main points that Edward Said makes in the introduction to 'Culture and Imperialism'. 5. Poetry will never become irrelevant. What case does Seamus Heaney make out in this regard in his 'Redress of Poetry'? 6. Compare and contrast prose styles of Bacon and Swift. 7. Survey the development of English Prose during the eighteenth century. 

7. YEAR 2009 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. The novels are George Eliot are 'organic wholes' in as much as story, characters and the social environment are well integrated. Do you agree? Attempt with reference to Adam Bede. 2. Discuss Jane Austen as a moralist with reference to Pride and Prejudice. 3. Critically analyze Trollope's humour and style in Barchester Towers. 4. "Hardy's minor characters are rich in the gathered wisdom of ancient days have have learnt to endure and accept." Substantiate with reference to Return of the Native. 5. Show how the French Revolution and Dickens' own life influenced the writing of A Tale of Two Cities. 6. "Pride in the main characters, and lack of it in Austen's minor characters is a major theme in Pride and Prejudice". Substantiate. 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following: (i) The Element of Chance in Hardy's Return of the Native (ii) George Eliot's Rea

7. YEAR 2009 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following: (i) Forth from thy boards thrust me with all speed. Set me within some vasty desert where No mortal voice shall greet me any more. (ii) Gentlemen, for that I know your friendship is unfeigned, It is not Faustus' custom to deny The just request of those that wish him well You shall behold that peerless dame of Greece. (iii) Work on, My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught; And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, And guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord! My lord, I say! Othello! (iv) I have considered so much, and with some care; so far that I have eyes under my service which look upon his reservedness; from which I have this intelligence that he is seldom from the house of a most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his neigh

7. YEAR 2009 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts: (i) Therefore, he was prickausour aright Greyhounds he hadde, as swift as fowel in flight Of prikying and of huntinge for the hare Was at his best, for no cost would he spare (ii) Seek not temptation then, which to avoide Were better, and most likelie if from me Thou severe not, trial will come unsought. (iii) By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed The first at least of these, I though denied To beasts, whom god on their creation -- day Created mute to all articulate sound ..... (iv) Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is these walls thy spheare. (v) God shall the ravisher display your hair, While the Fops envy, and the ladies stare; Honour forbid; at whose unrivalled shrine Ease, pleasure, virtue, all over sex resign. (vi) Thus I alone, where all my freedom

6. YEAR 2008 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Critically evaluate ONE of the following poems: (i) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Rich (ii) Still Citizen Sparrow by Richard Wilbur 2. How does John Ashbury explores the relationship between art and reality. Explain with reference to the poem "The Painter". 3. Discuss the use of imagery in Plath's poetry with reference to the poems you have read. 4. Joni Morrison weaves multiple strands of black experience into the narrative structure of 'Jazz'. Pick one strand and comment critically on its connection with the lives of Joe and Violot. 5. Discuss in detail the symbolic significance of the Mannon Houre in 'Mourning Becomes Electra'. 6. Explore the roles of Tibute, the Putnams, Reverend Paris and Abigail in terms of how they trigger and fuel conflict in 'The Crucible' 7. Write a detailed critical note on Robert Jordan's character in Hemingway's 'For Whom

6. YEAR 2008 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Discuss Bacon as one of the important European philosophers. Produce evidence from his Essays. 2. What are the literary techniques Swift draws upon to downscale man and his achievements? 3. What are the practical difficulties in employing ideal teachers and how can they be overcome? Discuss with reference to Russell's 'Unpopular Essays'. 4. What evidence does Edward Said produce to condemn Imperialism as an evil? 5. How does poetry, according to Seamus Heaney, redress social, economic and cultural ills? 6. Discuss Russell's Essays in terms of their relevance to the development of human beings in terms of becoming more practical and rational creatures. 7. Write a comprehensive note on Bacon's prose style. 

6. YEAR 2008 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens heightens the underlying meaning of Novel through his sophisticated use of irony. Discuss. 2. Why is Trollope known as Male Jane Austen? Explain 3. "Hardy's minor characters are grouped together without being fully individualized". Discuss. 4. Hardy related human disasters to weakness and lack of will. He is not a fatalist. Discuss. 5. Jane Austen develops and then releases the antagonism between Elizabeth and Darcy in such a way that they themselves are made to realize the folly of their pride and their prejudice. Discuss. 6. Adam Bede reflects George Eliot's psychological insight into human character and motives. Discuss. 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics: (i) Trollope's Art of Characterization (ii) Jane Austen's Humour and Style (iii) George Eliot's Art of Novel Writing (iv) Autobiographical Element in A Tale of Two Citie

6. YEAR 2008 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) At a feast a drunken man maundering in his cups Cries out that I am not my father's son! I contained myself that night, though I felt anger And a sinking heart. The next day I visited My father and mother, and questioned them, they stormed, Calling it all the slanderous rant or a fool, And this relieved me. (ii) Thou, old traitor, I am sorry that by hanging thee I can But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece of excellent witch craft who of force, must know The royal fool thou cop's't with. (iii) By heavens, I say my handkerchief in his heart, And makest me call what I intend to do A murder, which I thought a sacrifice; I saw the handkerchief. (iv) Ay, Faustus, now thou hast no hope of heaven, Therefore, despair, think only upon hell, For that must be they mansion,

6. YEAR 2008 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 Which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain only FOUR of the following with reference to the context: (i) She leet no morsel from her lippes falle Ne wettee hir fvngres in her sauce depe. Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe That no drope ne fille upon hire breste. (ii) Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way: (iii) And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth rome, It leans and hearkens after it, And growes erect, as that comes home. (iv) For ever curs'd be this detested day, Which snatched my best, my favourite curl away! Happy! Ah ten times happy had I been If Hampton-Court these eyes had never seen! (v) But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt To God or thee, because we have a foe May tempt it, I expected not to hear. (vi) And with remembrance of the greater

5. YEAR 2007 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems: (i) Marginalia by Richard Wilbur (ii) Morning Song by Sylvia Plath 2. Describe the main elements of modernity in the poetry of Richard Wilbur. Elaborate with examples from his poems of your syllabus. 3. Discuss the main themes in the work of John Ashbury. 4.  What is the symbolic significance of the title "Jazz" by Toni Morrison? 5. Discuss 'Mourning Becomes Electra' as a tragedy in modern sense. 6. John Proctor stands unique amongst Miller's creation not because of any inherent superiority but because of the intensity of his moral response. Justify it. 7. Discuss Robert Jordan as Hemingway's tragic hero. 

5. YEAR 2007 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Nowhere is Bacon so fascinating, so incisive, so personally involved as his 'Of Studies'. Elaborate. 2. Swift's Travel to Laputa my or may not be stillbirth but it contains, the same flair and the same flame as the rest of 'Gulliver's Travels'. Elaborate. 3. Even when theoretic and imaginative, Russell never departs from practicality and empiricism. Elaborate with special reference to his Unpopular Essays. 4. What is the main crux of Edward Said's contention in his introduction to 'Culture and Imperialism'? 5. Seamus Heaney not only theorizes but also illustrates and substantiates his contention. Elaborate. 6. Swift is not a reformer but a demolisher. Discuss with reference to his works, especially 'Gulliver's Travels'. 7. Russell's views on teaching and education have been of immense use down the years. Elaborate with special reference to his Unpopular Essa

5. YEAR 2007 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Irony is the most effective weapon Jane Austen has in her arsenal. Discuss. 2. With her seductive charms Signora Neroni loves to put the male romanticism to shame. Discuss with special reference to Barchester Towers. 3. A Tale of Two Cities is the story of conflict of interests and clash of characters. Discuss. 4. Hetty is profoundly and eternally selfish. Discuss. 5. Arthur is too weak to follow his own conscience without being forced to do so. Discuss. 6. Do you agree with Hardy that fate or destiny is indifferent and often hostile to human happiness? 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics: (i) George Eliot's Art of Characterization (ii) Trollope's Humour and Style (iii) Jane Austen as a Moralist (iv) Tragic Element in A Tale of Two Cities

5. YEAR 2007 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) To have been a man they call his mother's husband Oh accurst! Oh child of evil, To have entered that wretched bed the self same one! More primal than sin itself, this fell on me. (ii) O soul, be changed into little water drops, And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found! My God, my God look not so fierce on me! Adders and serpents, let me breathe a while! Ugly hell, gape not! Come not Lucifer! I'll burn my books! Ah-Mephistophillis. (iii) Whip me, you devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight. Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire, (iv) I beg pardon for interrupting you, lady Braknell, But this engagement is quite out of question, I am Miss Cardews' guardian, And she cannot marry without my consent until she comes to

5. YEAR 2007 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following extracts: (i) If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil; (ii) By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them both, but wished his hap might Find Even separate; (iii) Ful many a deyntee horse had he in stable; And when he rood men myghte his broydel heer Gynglen in a whistlunge wynd als cleere, (iv) Ful wel biloved and famulier was he With frankeleyns over all his contree, And eek with worthy wommen of the town; (v) Thy beams, so reverend, and strong Why shouldst thou thinke? I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke (vi) Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast, When husbands, or when lap dogs

4. YEAR 2006 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Toni Morrison has used the subject of Jazz music as a metaphor for the ever changing conditions of African-American life in the 1920s and as a reflection of the perpetual human struggle between right and wrong. Elaborate. 2. Sylvia Plath exposes her subjectivity in terms of objectivity. Illustrate the statement with reference to her poems you have studied. 3. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems" (i) Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath (ii) The Painter by John Ashbury 4. Discuss the mother and daughter's relationship in Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neil. 5. Discuss Jordan's relationship with Maria. Do you find Maria a convincing character? 6. John Proctor stands unique amongst Miller's Creations not because of any inherent superiority but because of the intensity of his moral response. Justify it. 7. Discuss the major themes in the poetry of John Ashbury. 

4. YEAR 2006 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. With Bacon does the new ear of English prose start. Elaborate with reference to his essays. 2. His satire grows more and more bitter as Swift progresses from book to book of his 'Gulliver's Travels'. Discuss. 3. Swift devised a prose style that suited his purpose very well. Elaborate with special reference to his Gulliver's Travels. 4. Can ideas, good or bad, be so effective as Bertrand Russell has claimed? Make out a case for or against in the light of his 'Unpopular Essays'. 5. How far has Edward Said succeeded in stripping the mask from the ugly face of Imperialism? Elaborate with special reference to his Introduction to Culture and Imperialism 6. Poetry is as much relevant as ever even in this highly industrialized age of ours. Discuss with reference to Seamus Heaney. 7. Trace the development of English Prose from Bacon to Seamus Heaney. 

4. YEAR 2006 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Jane Austen was fully alive to her limitations, as such, she never touched a character or scene she did not thoroughly knew. Discuss. 2. A Tale of Two Cities is Dickens' most impersonal novel especially because of the grand objectivity of historical events with which it deals. Discuss. 3. Mr. Slope is a cunning and ruthless opportunist loyal to none but himself. Discuss with special reference to Barchester Towers. 4. Clym's blindness is a physical manifestation, a symbol of his intellectual obtuseness or social maladjustment. Discuss. 5. Being superior to Hetty both in years and in experience of the world, Arthur's responsibility is much greater for the suffering and tragedy of poor Hetty. Discuss. 6. Hetty lives simply by the coercive morality of the community and when this is broken, she is destroyed. Discuss. 7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics: (i) Jane Austen's Art o

4. YEAR 2006 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) Ah, Faustus Now has thou but one bare hour to live; And then thou must be damn'd Perpetually! Stand still, you ever moving spheres of heaven. That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul (ii) Do not counsel me anymore. This punishment that I Have laid upon myself is just. If I had eyes I do not know how I would bear the sight of my father, When I come to the house of Death, or my mother, for I Have sinned against them both So vilely that I could not make any peace By strangling my own life. (iii) I had rather to be a toad And live upon the vapour of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For other's u

Source: http://nonsite.org/article/how-orientalist-painters-die Copied from nonsite.org. for original visit above link How Orientalist Painters Die By Marc Gotlieb (Williams College) Mostly they died in ways like anyone else. The fifty-seven year old Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, who enthralled Paris audiences with suite of exotic genre and biblical subjects following a year in Asia

Gulliver's Travels  is an anatomy of human nature, a sardonic looking-glass, often criticized for its apparent misanthropy. Gulliver's Travels   was unique in its day; it was not written to woo or entertain. It was an indictment, and it was most popular among those who were indicted. On the subject of misanthropy Swift famously said, �Principally I hate and detest that animal called man" Swift called man not the " animal rationale " but only the " rationis capax �, animal capable of reason. In a letter to Alexander Pope Swift wrote: �I have ever hated all Nations professions and Communities and all my love is towards individuals. . .Upon this great foundation of misanthropy the whole building of my travels is erected� He admits that the chief end of all his labour is  �to vex the world rather than divert it�. Swift so violently �vexed� the world that different critics from his own time to this day have bitterly criticized him. Thackeray attacked his book c

4. YEAR 2006 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages: (i) In all the possible wifne was ther noon That to the offerynge before hire shoulde goone; And if there dide, certeyn so wrooth was she, That she was out of all charitee. (ii) If they be two, they are two so As stiffe twin compasses are two Thy soule the first foot, makes no-show To move, but doth, if the other doe. (iii) O thoughtless mortals! Ever blind to fate, Too soon defected, and two soon elate, Sudden, these honours shall be snatched away And cursed for ever this victorious day. (iv) Space may produce new worlds; where of so rife there Want a fame in Heaven that ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard. Should favour equal to the sons of Heaven. (v) Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works gave signs of w

3. YEAR 2005 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. The novel 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison reflects the complexities of urban life. Illustrate the statement. 2. Write a comprehensive note on the theme of Feminism as treated by Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich in their poems. 3. Critically evaluate any ONE of the following poems: (i) After the last Bulletin by Richard Wilbur (ii) Melodic Train by John Ashbury 4. In Mourning Becomes Electra pat is synonymous with fate. Elaborate the statement. 5. Discuss the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls as a critical analysis of the behaviour of human beings under turbulent conditions of war. 6. Do you regard Abigail Williams as a victim or vamp. Base your arguments on textual evidence. 7. Discuss the major themes in the poetry of Sylvia Plath.  

3. YEAR 2005 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What idea do you form a Bacon's learning and scholarship and political views after your study of his essays? 2. "Swift was the greatest satirist in an age of satire". Elaborate with special reference to the first two voyages of "Gulliver's Travels". 3. Reproduce Huxley's basic contention in 'The Education of an Amphibian'. 4. Affirm or refute Russell's bid to justify the winning of happiness in this raving, reeling age of ours. 5. Write a detailed note on Strachy as a Biographer. How did he improve upon this art? 6. Compare and contrast between styles of Bacon and Swift. 7. Make a good case in favour of Huxley as your ideal prose writer. 

3. YEAR 2005 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Faithful observation, personal detachment and a fine sense of ironic comedy are among Jane Austen's chief characteristics as a writer. 2. Trollope preferred to describe his characters before showing them in action and sometimes his initial descriptions of them are more interesting than their own subsequent bahaviour. Discuss. 3. The character of Adam Bede is built up from the firm foundation of Native Sagacity and an indomitable sense of justice. Comment. 4. Unlike Hetty, Adam Bede is a man we are called upon to understand in depth; where she is static and bewildered, he is evolving and aware. 5. Symbolism leads additional meanings to those which are apparent on the surface. Discuss with special reference to A Tale of Two Cities. 6. Through a series of events over which Clym has very little control, he come to feel responsible for the deaths of his mother and wife. Discuss. 7. Write critical notes on any T

3. YEAR 2005 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) The God thou serv'st thine own appetite. Wherein, is fixed the love of Beelzebub. To him, I'll build an alter and a church And offer him lukewarm blood of newborn babes. (ii) Let every man in mankind's Frailty Consider his last day, and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain. (iii) There's some ill plane reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. (iv) Dangerous conceits, are in their nature poisons Which ..... with a little act upon the blood Burn like the mines of sulpher. (v) It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Brecknell, about your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve all of his moral character. I suspect him of being untruthful. 2. Discuss Marlow

3. YEAR 2005 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.  (i) Fallen cherub to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure To do aught good never will be our task But ever to do ill our sole delight ..... (ii) He settenat his benefice to hyre And leet his sheepe encombred in the myre, And ran to Londoun, Unto seint poules, To seeten hym a chaunterie for sonless. (iii) Whatever spirit, careless of his charge, His post neglects, or leaves the fair at large, Shall feel sharp vengeance soon o'ertake his sins Be stopped in vials, or transfixed with pins. (iv) Or let these two, the themselves, not mee decay; So shall I live, thy stage, not triumph bee, Last thou thy love and hate and mee undoe, To let me live, O love and hate me too. (v) "O place of bliss, renever of my woes, Give me account O where is my nobel fere, Whom in thy walls thou didst each might enclose, To another l

2. YEAR 2004 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Discuss the context and significance of the women characters in Toni Morrison's novel Jazz. 2. What are some of the dominant features of 20th century American Poetry that are reflected in the work of John Ashbury and Richard Wilbur? Discuss with reference to the poems you have read. 3. Write a critical appreciation of one of the following poems: (i) Aunt Jennifer's Tiger by Adrienne Rich (ii) Poppies in October by Sylvia Plath 4. Mourning Becomes Electra is concerned with the fated family of the mannons. Discuss. 5. Discuss Robert Jordan as typical Hemingway hero in For Whom the Bell Tolls. 6. Discuss the significance of the title of the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. 7. Write a detailed account of some of the themes that are dominant in Sylvia Plath's poems.

2. YEAR 2004 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Bacon is more a man of the word than a philosopher in his essays. Do you agree? Illustrate your answer. 2. Political satire in the first two parts of Gulliver's Travels is interesting as well as instructive. Elaborate. 3. From your reading of Gulliver's Travels what impression have you formed of Swift's attitude towards mankind? Would you describe him as a misanthrope? 4. Do you think Seamus Heaney has succeeded in making out a good cause in favour of poetry in this post modern age of ours? 5. Do you think Bertrand Russell's proposal for the establishment of a world government is desirable, or even tenable? 6. In how many ways have ideas concerned with moral and politics, according to Bertrand Russell, helped mankind? 7. To how many classical English novelists does Edward Said refer in his introduction to cultural and imperialism; in what context and a what purpose.  

2. YEAR 2004 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. The larger subject in Pride and Prejudice is human nature. Elaborate this with reference to the two main characters - Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. 2. How far may Hardy's The Return of the Native be described as a study in disillusionment? 3. Discuss the manner in which Anthony Trollope contextualizes the broad historical, technological and social concerns of his times in Bar Chester Towers. 4. Write a detailed comment on Anthony Trollope's art of characterization in the light of R.H. Hutton's observation that ---- 'Everybody in Mr. Trollope is more or less under pressure swayed lither and thither by opposite attractions assailed on this side and that by the strategy of rivals.' 5. Trace the development of Adam Bede's self-realization through a process of emotional turmoil within him. 6. Discuss the symbolic treatment of La Guillotine by Dicken's in "A Tale of Two Cities" to

2. YEAR 2004 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for mephostophilis, (ii) Be certain what you do sir lest your justice Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer Yourself, your queen, your son. (iii) And yet I fear you, for you are fated then, When you eyes roll so: why I should fear, I know not, Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear. (iv) Ah! Dear friend Are you faithful even yet, you alone? Are you still standing near me, you will stay here, Patient to take care for the blind? The blind man! Yet even blind I know who it is attends me, By the voice's tone- Though my darkness hide the comforter. (v) Ah! I believe she is plain. Yes: I know perfectly well what she is like. She is one of those dull, intellectual girl one meets all over the place. Girls

2. YEAR 2004 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.  1. Explain with reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages: (i) "What may this mean? Language of men pronounced. By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed? The first at least of these, I thought denied To beasts, whom God on their creation-day Created mute to all articulate sound;.... (ii) Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never come That comes to all. (iii) My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without sharp west? (iv) What moved my mind with youthful lords to roam? Oh! Had I stayed, and said my prayers at home 'Twas from my trembling hand the patch-box fell; (v) Thus, for our guilt, this jewel have we lost; The earth his bones, the heavens possess his gho

1. YEAR 2003 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is the symbolic significance of the title 'Jazz' by Toni Morrison? 2. Write a critical appreciation of Sylvia Plath's poem The Bee Meeting. 3. Discuss Hemingway's fictional technique with particular reference to 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. 4. What has The Crucible to tell us about the relationship between the individual and society? 5. Write a detailed account of some of the themes that are dominant in Adrienne Rich's poetry. 6. What devices does O'Neill employ in The Mourning Become Electra (Homecoming) to express his sense of unreal behind what we call reality? 7. Critically analyze ONE of the following. (i) Richard Wilbur's "Still, Citizen Sparrow" (ii)  John Ashberry's "Melodic Trains" Keeping in view the theme, language and imagery used by the poet. 

1. YEAR 2003 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Bacon's pragmatism and worldly wisdom temper his philosophy throughout. Elaborate. 2. Swift has been charged with misanthropy. Uphold or refute the charge with concrete evidence from his works, especially, "Gulliver's Travels". 3. What safeguards does Russell suggest against a teacher's becoming a tool in the hands of governments and how far are they adequate? 4. Write your own view of poetry in the light of Seamus Heaney's views. 5. Write a comprehensive essay on stylistic qualities of Bacon's essays. 6. What, according to Edward Said, is culture and what, imperialism and how does he relate the two? 7. Which of the prose writers included in your course is your favourite, and why? 

1. YEAR 2003 Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Jane Austen has used irony as a part of her narrative technique. Illustrate this from her novel Pride and Prejudice.  2. "Among the English novelists, Dickens is neither the most consummate artist, nor the finest psychologist, nor the most accomplished realist, nor the most seductive of tale writers; best he is probably the most national, the most typical, and the greatest of them all." How far do you agree with this evaluation of Dickens work?  3. To what extent do you think are Fate and Chance an integral part of the tragedy in Hardy's work The Return of the Native?  4. "He is a male Jane Austen, cruder and more expansive, but equally secure in his knowledge of what he can do, and with the same clear determination not to transgress into world which he does not understand". How far does Trollope fall true to this critical observation of his work?  5. Discuss Adam's education and g

1. YEAR 2003 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks.  1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages: (i) O holy majesty of heavenly powers! May I never see that day. Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men Than know the abomination destined me! (ii) O thou art fairer than the evening's Star Clad in the beauty of a thousand Stars,  Brighter art thou than flashing Jupiter... (iii) Now by heaven,  My blood begins my safer guide to rule;  And passion, having my best judgement collide Assay to lead the way (iv) Should a villain say so The most replenished villain in the world,  He were as much more villain: You my lords Do but mistake.  (v) Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrange, and you presence in my garden utterly absurd. However, you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey home.  2. Greek tragedy is generally believed to be a tra

1. YEAR 2003 Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. Be brief and to the point.  1. Explain the reference to the context any FOUR of the following passages: (i) And I have leave to go of her goodness, And she also, to use newfangleness. But since that I so kindly am served "How like you this?" What hath she now deserved. (ii) A bettre felawe sholde men naught fynde, He wolde suffre, fro a quart of wyn, A good felawe to have his concubyn, A twelf monther, and excuse hym atte fulle. (iii) When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame, And midst the stars inscribe Blinda's name. (iv) ---Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee; yet unknown, And me with thee had ruined; for with thee certain My resolution is to die. (v) If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken Nor can die. (vi) Re