C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2011 [Fourth Paper]
2011
ENGLISH-HONOURS
Fourth Paper
Full Marks-100
The figures in the
margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are
required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.
Group-A
Answer any two questions: 16
x 2
1. (a) Comment on the use of irony in Pride and Prejudice.
Or
(b) Examine any two comic characters in Pride and Prejudice.
2. (a) Jane’s actions embody a disturbing powerful
statement of woman’s claim to independence. Do you agree? Give reasons for your
answer.
Or
(b) Would you consider Jane Eyre as a Gothic novel? Answer with reference to the text.
3. (a) Comment on the Dickens’ portrayal of Brownlow and
Nancy in Olive Twist.
Or
(b) Consider Oliver
Twist as a social document of its time.
4. (a) Critically examine Hardy’s portrayal of Clym
Yeobright in The Return of the Native.
Or
(b)Comment on the view that true subject of the novel, The Return of the Native, is the
background, Edgon Heath.
5. (a) Examine the mother-son relationship in Sons and Lovers.
Or
(b) Consider Sons
and Lovers as a modern novel.
Group-B
Answer any two of
the following questions:
16 x 2
6. Araby is
realistic story about the adolescence. Do you agree with this view? Answer with
reference to the text.
7. Analyse the theme of pain and suffering in The Ox.
8. Is The Fly a
successful short story? Give reasons to your answer.
Group-C
9. Comment on any four of the following literary terms:
4 x 4
a.
Picaresque Novel
b.
Third Person Narrative
c.
Setting
d.
Theme
e.
Character
f.
Sub-Plot
g.
Naturalism
h.
Historical Novel
Group-D
10. Give the substance of any one of the following and add a short critical note: 15 + 5
a) The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think”. That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it’s either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of the Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless.
a) The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think”. That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it’s either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of the Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless.
The novel’s spirit is the spirit of continuity: each work is
an answer to preceding ones, each work contains all the previous experience of
the novel. But spirit of our time is firmly focused on a present that is so
expansive and profuse that it shoves the past off our horizon and reduces time
to the present moment only. Within this system the novel is no longer a work (a
thing made to last, to connect the past with the future)but one current event
among many, a gesture with no tomorrow.
b) When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
b) When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn
buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I
see down razed,
and brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungary
ocean gain
Advantage on the Kingdom of
the shore.
And the firm soil win of the
watery main.
Increasing store with loss,
and loss with store;
When I have seen such
interchanging of the state,
Or state itself confounded to
decay.
Ruin hath taught me this to
ruminate:
That Time will come and take
my love away,
This Thought is as death,
which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it
fears to lose.
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