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Sixth Paper

(First Halt)

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Full Marks - 50

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1. Answer any two of the following questions : 15x2=30 ·

' (a) Examine Sons and Lovers as a love novel.

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(b) Estimate Sons and Lovers as a psychologi­

cal novel.

(c) How does To the Lighthouse illustrate the

search of meaning in life ?

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( d) ~omment on the maj~r symbols used in To

the Lighthouse.

(e) ExamineAPortraitoftheArtistasa Young

Man as an artist novel.

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(f) Discuss Joyce's use of ' stream of consciousness' technique in the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . .

(g) CriticaJly analyse "Directive".

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(h) Discuss Frost's use of symbols in the poems on your syllabus.

2. Answer any four of the following·: 5x4=20

(a) What is the importance of Paul's father in Sons and Lovers ?

(b) . Bring out the essential difference between · Clara and Miriam.

(c) What role does Mr. Ramsay play in To the Lighthouse ?

(d) Bring out significance of the section titled "Time Passes" in To the Lighthouse.

( e) How does Stephen react to the punishment inflicted on him by Father Dolan?

(f) Describe Stephen's confession after his act of sin.

(g) Bring out the inner meaning underlying "Birches".

(h) Comment on the title, "Mending Wall".

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. Sixth Paper

(Second Half)

PG-II (DE)/2015

· Full Marks - 50

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

1. Answer any two of the following questions : . I5 x2=30

(a) Compare and contrast "Ambulances" and "Th~ Explosion" as poems about death.

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(b) Attempt a close reading of "At Grass".

( c) . Evaluate Ted Hughes as a modern poet.

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( d) Critically appreciate "The Thought-fox" . .

(e) How is modern man 's predicament dramatised in . Waiting for Godot?

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(f) · Attempt a comparativ_e study of Vladimir and Estragon.

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(g) The speeches of the central character in Look Back in Anger look like monologues. Do you agree ? Give reasons for your answer.

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(h) Bring out the aptness of the title, Look Back in Anger.

2. Answer any Jou,. of the following : 5 x4=20

(a) How does "Church Going" end 7

(b) Comment on the last line of "The Explosion,".

( c) Comment of the title, "Hawk Roosting".

(d) Bring out the note of irony underlying "A Childish Prank". -

( e) Comment on the ending of Waiting for Godot.

(f) What role does Pozzo play in Waiting for Godot?

(g) What role does Colonel Redfern play in Look Back in Anger ? ·

. (h) Briefly comment on the relationship between Cliff and Alison.

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Seventh Pap.er

(First Halt) ·

PG-II (DE)/2015

Full Marks - 50

The figures in the margin indicate fu ll marks.

1. Answer any two of the following questions : 15x2=30

(a) How far is Lord of the Flies a commentary on essential human condition ? Argue your answer.

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(b) Discuss Lord of the Flies as a fable.

( c) . What is the significance of the title of The Power and the Glory ? · ·

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( d) Discuss The . Power and the Glory as a thesis novel.

( e) Comment on Camus's vision of life in The Outsider.

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(f) Analyse the character of Metirsault as portrayed in The Outsider.

(g) · Evaluate Invisiqle Man as a protest novel.

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(h) Critically discuss Ellison' s presentation of violence in Invisible Man.

2. Answer any four of the following : 5x4=20

(a) Give a description of the island in Lord of the Flies.

(b) Briefly justify the title, Lord of the Flies.

(c) What role does Padre Jose play in The Power and the Glory ?

( d) Is it possible to consider the Whiskey priest as a kind of martyr in The Power and the Glory ?

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· (e) Comment on the ending of The Outsider.

{f) What are the consequences ofMeursault's killing the Arab ?

(g) · Comment on the prologue to Invisible Man .

. (1:1) Bring out the significance of Tod Clifton's suicide.

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Seventh Paper

(Second Half)

PG-II (DE)/2015

Full Marks - 5 0

The figures in the margin indicate full ·marks.

1. Answer any two of the following questions : . I5x2=30

(a) Critically discuss the title of Parthasarathy' s Rough Passage.

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(b) Critically examine Kolatkar's attitude towards religion with special reference to the poems on your syllabus.

( c) Discuss caste and · untouchability as a thematic issue in The God of Small Things.

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(d) Comment op the narrative technique of The God of Small Things.

(e) •Analyse the character and role of Kamala in the play Kamala.

P.T.O.

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(f) · Estimate the play Kamala as a critique of · the institution of marriage.

· ... (g) Attem,pt a comparative . study ·of the characters ofCharidan and Tara in Dattani's play Tara.

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(h) Critically examine the wo'men characters in Tara.

2. Answer any four of the following : 5 x4=20

(a) What does Parthasarathy say about one's · roots in Exile?

(b) Bring out the central idea of "The Bus".

( c) . What happened when Sophie Mal came to Ayemenem?

( d) Write a ·brief note on the role of Baby Kochamma·in The God of Small Things.

( e) Briefly e~amine how Kakasaheb acts as a foil .to Jai Singh 'in the play Kq-rrzala.

(f) · Comment on Jai Singh's attitude to the maid Kamalabai in the play Kamala.

(g) Does Bharati suffer from any guilt complex ? " .

· (h) Comment on the role science plays in the play Tara.

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Eighth Paper

(First Hali)

PG-II (DE)/2015

Full Marks - 50

The figures in the margin indicate full marks, .

1. Answer any two of the following questions : }5X2=30

(a) What, according to Aristotle, are the essential qualities of a tragic character ? Discuss with spedal emphasis on 'hamartia'.

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(b) Discuss Aristotle s theory of imitation.

(c} Critically examine Wordsworth's observations on the· function of the poet in Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

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( d) Evaluate Coleridge as a critic with reference to Biographia Literaria. ·

(e) Comment on Arnold's opinion !egarding the historical and the personal methods of poetry.

P.T.O.

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(f) How does Arnold review the English poets from Chaucer to the. romantics ?

(g) Why does Eliot say that, "the progress of an· · artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction

· . of personality" ?

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(h) Comment on Eliot's revaluation of the metaphysical poets.

2. Answer any four of the following : 5x4=20

(a) What does Aristotle say about the origin of ·poetry?

(b) How does Aristotle ·distinguish between simple and complex plots ?

{ c) How does Wordsworth defend the use of metre in poetry ?

( d) Why does Coleridge compare a poem to a plant?

.( e) What, ·according to Arnold, is the right . method of judging poetry ?

(f) Why · does Arnold criticise· the 'Wordsworthians' ?

(g) Comment on Eliot's analogy of the catalyst.

(h) Comment on Eliot's idea dissociation of sensibility ?

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Eighth Paper

(Second Half)

PG-II (DE)/2015

Full Marks - 50

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

l. Answer any two of the following questions : 15x2=30

(a) How do Wimsatt and Beardsley show that "the intentional fallacy" ·is basically a "romantic" one ?

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(b) Discuss the basic tenets of New Criticism and show, how the arguments put forth by Wimsatt and Beardsley make the essay, "The Inteptional Fallacy"~ seminal text of that school of criticism.

_ ( c) · How does Barthes establish that "the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author"?

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( d) Would you consider "From work to text" to be a post-structuralist text ? Argue your answer.

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( e) Comment on Abrams' critical exposition of Derrida's views in "The Deconstructive Angel;'.

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(f) Sum up Abrams' critique of Miller's view - "all reading is misreading".

(g) How does Cleanth Brooks argue the view that the language of poetry is necessarily the language of

- . . paradox?

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(h) Elaborate after Cleanth Brooks how paradox is central to two of Wordsworth' s poems - "It is a beauteous evening calm and free" and "Lines composed upon Westmirl:ster Bridge".

2. Answer any four of the following : 5x4=20

(a) Ho'Y do Wimsatt and Beardsley interpret "revision" ?

(b) How do Wimsatt and Beardsley react to . . .

Professor Lowes ' s interpretation of "Kub la Khan" .?

( c) What does Barthes ·mean when he claims that "the author is a modern figure" ?

( d) "Like language, it . is structured but off­. centered, without closure".-. Discuss.

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( e) Bring out the irony contained in the title, "The Deconstructive Angel".

(f) Explain Derrida's use of the term trace.

(g) What does Cleanth Brooks mean when he 1 · says ''the poet has to work by analogies"?

(h) What does Brooks say about "The Phoenix and the Turtle" ?

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Ninth Paper

(First Half)

PG-II (DE)/2015

Time - Two Hours Full Marks - 50

Thefigures in the margin indicatefull marks.

1. Answer any two of the following questions : 15x2=30

(a) • How does Huck Finn struggle to find a morality of the heart in his relationship with the negro slave Jim?

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(b) Comment on the ending of Huckleberry Finn.

(c) Comment on Hemingway' s· narrative . technique in The Old Man and the Sea.

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(d)_ Examine Hemingway's handling of the · Santiago-Manolin relationship.

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( e) Examine the appropriateness of the title of The Sound and the Fury. . ·

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(f) Estimate · The Sound and the Fury as a stream of consciousness novel.

(g) How far does Morrison uphold family values and family ties as the only weapons against total disintegration for the American blacks?

· Or,

(h) Discuss the character of Pauline Breedlove.

(i) Analyse Walden as a book of practical philosophy.

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0) Write a brief note on Thoreau's prose style in Walden.

2. Answer any four of the following: Sx4=20

(a) Describe the incidents leading to the exhumation of Peter Wilks.

(b }' What is your estimate about Widow

Douglas?

(c) Who was DiMaggio and what does he

represent?

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( d) What does the old man carry to his shack ?

( e) Comment on the role of Jason;

(f) Why does Quentin commit suicide?

(g) What is . the significance of Claudia's decapitated white dolls ?' .

(h) ·Describe the scene where Mr. Breedlove meets his father.

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(i) What animals frequented Thoreau's cabin?

0) . Briefly describe the Waldenpondin winter.

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Ninth Paper

(Second . Half)

·PG-II (DE)/2015

, Full Marks - 50

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

1. Answer any two of the following questions : 15x2=30

·(a) Consider. "When Lilacs in. the Dooryard Bloomed" as a pastoral elegy.

Or, .

(b) Whitman's "Passage to India" celebrates the mystic oneness of all humanity. ·Discuss.

. ( c) . Explore the nature imagery in Di~kinson' s poems.

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(d) Compare and contrast any two of Dickinson's poems that deal with the subject of death.

(e) Discuss Langston representative Negro poet.

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Huo-hes · as · a ' tl" .0 ,, "', .

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(f} Attempt a critical appreciation of "Theme for English B".

(g) Comment on Frost's depiction of man's :· · ' < ,

relationship with nature.

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(h) Evaluate Robert Frost as a modern poet.

2. · An$wer any four of the following: 5x4=20

(a) Briefly state the central idea of"One's Self I Sing".

(b) · Elaborate on Whitman' s idea of ·shared space in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry".

(c) Explore Dickinson's use of imagery in "Success is Counted Sweetest''.

( d) Discuss how t~e speaker in "I Heard a Fly Buzz" describes her passage to death .

.(e) How does the speaker of "Mendirig Wall" reactto his neighbour's declaration that "Good fences make good neighbours" ?

(f} Briefly state the cynfral idea of '~Design",

(g) Why does 'the negro' say, "my soul has grown deep like the rivers"?

(h) How does '~B allad of the Landlord" . represent the soci~-economi<.; 'position of the American Blacks?

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Tenth Paper

(American Literature)

Time - Two Hours Full Marks - 50

. . . The .figures in the margin indicate full marks.

' 1. Answer any two of the following questions :

15X2=3Q .

(a) Discuss Mourning Becomes Electra as a modern reworking of a Greek tragedy. ·

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(b) Discuss the relationship between O~in and

Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Electra.

( c) Would you consider Willy Loman as a

. tragic hero? Substantiate your answer.

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(d) Death ofa Salesman is an arraignment of

the American Dream.-Discuss;

( e) Can The Glass Menagerie be viewed as

Tom's voyage?

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(f) . Discuss The Glass Menagerie as an · expressionistic play.

(g) · Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is built on ah interplay of illusion and reality. Do you agree ? Argue your answer.

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(h) Comment on the dramatic technique as employed in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

2. Answer any four of the following: 5x4=20

(a) Comment on the role of Seth in Mourning Becomes Electra.

(b) Explain the symbolic significance of the Mannon house in Mourning Becomes Electra.

( c) How good a salesman is Willy Loman ? .

(d) Explain the significance of the "Requiem" in Death of a Salesman.

( e) Comment on the opening of The Glass Menagerie.

(f) Does Amanda have tragic· beauty in her character?

. (g) Do you consider Nick as an opportunistic scientist?

(h) · Explain the significance of the Third Act of· Who 's Afraid of Virginia · Woolf?.

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