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List Of Important Questions From PAPER-IV of C.U. English Honours

If you are trying to get hold on the list of important question from various novels, essays and short stories in Fourth Paper of C.U. English Honours Syllabus then check out this list.

Students should understand that most of the books prescribed by the Calcutta University (C.U.) for all the three years of English Honours course had been in circulations for a really long time. After each decade some of these books are changed but not all of it. The University of Calcutta had recently revised its syllabus in 2010. And no new questions are formed at all. If there is a new question in the exam, then it is just same question which is being 'asked in a different manner'. Then why they do it?

To test your knowledge and 'question interpretation skills'.

Most of the C.U. English Honours books have just three to five major questions which are repeated after a gap of two years.

Take for example in Part-1 'Rape of the Lock'.

There are few major important questions like :

Rape of the Lock as mock-epic.
Character of Belinda
The Eighteenth Century Society
Game of Ombre
Toilette Scene
Use Of Supernatural Machinery

So these questions are used repeatedly after a gap of few years. Just have a look on the last year's Question Paper and prepare for those which were not included in it.

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Here are the list of all C.U. English Honours questions Paper-IV from 2010 to 2015.

Pride & Prejudice

· Comment on the use of irony in Pride and Prejudice. (2011)

· Examine any two comic characters in Pride and Prejudice. (2011)

· Comment on Jane Austen’s treatment of the theme of the marriage in Pride and Prejudice. (2012)

· Elizabeth Bennet is the moving force in the novel Pride and Prejudice. (2012)

· In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen uses irony as an instrument of social criticism. (2013)

· Examine Jane Austen’s delineation of comic characters in Pride and Prejudice. (2013)

· Comment on Jane Austen’s treatment of the theme of marriage in Pride and Prejudice. (2014)

· Pride and Prejudice has been called a ‘comedy of manners’. Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer. (2014)

· In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen uses irony as an instrument of social criticism. Discuss. (2015)

· Pride and Prejudice Lives and moves in the character of Elizabeth Bennet. Examine the appropriateness of the remark. (2015)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

· Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of soliloquies in Macbeth. (2011)

· Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth. (2011)

· Analyse A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a romantic comedy. (2012)

· Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of the ‘real world’ and ‘the dream world’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream . (2012)

· Examine the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (2013)

· Analyse the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (2013)

· Comment on how the woodland setting in A Midsummer Night’s Dream contributes to the theme of the play. (2014)

· Examine the significance of the title in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.(2014)

· Comment on the significance of the role of the Athenian artisans in a A Midsummer Night’s Dream with special reference to Nick Bottom. (2015)

· Examine the theme of love in its various dimensions in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.(2015)

Essays

Of Studies

· Comment on Bacon’s style in the essay Of Studies. (2013)

· Critically analyse ‘Of Studies’ to bring out Bacon’s qualities as an essayist. (2015)

Shooting an Elephant

Discuss the episode of shooting an elephant in George Orwell’s essay. (2012)
Discuss Orwell's views about imperialism in Shooting an Elephant. (2014)
Comment on the Orwell’s narrative technique in Shooting an Elephant. (2015)

The Superannuated Man

Critically comment on the existence of the playful and serious elements in The Superannuated Man. (2012)
Bring out the element of humour and pathos in Lamb's The Superannuated Man. (2013)
Comment on Lamb’s style as an essayist with reference to the prescribed essay. (2014)

Reference to the content

But time partially reconciles us to anything, I gradually became content—doggedly content as wild animals in cages. (2012) Taken from The Superannuated Man
“….for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much large…” (2012) Taken from Of Studies
And my whole life, every white man’s life in East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at. (2013) Taken from Shooting an Elephant.
“I was in the condition of prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years’ of confinement”. (2013) Taken from The Superannuated Man
“….. for Naturall Abilities are like Naturall Plants, that need Proyning by Study”. (2014) Taken from Of Studies.
Had I a little son, I would christen him, Nothing-To-Do, he should do nothing. (2014) Taken from The Superannuated Man
I had grown to my desk, as it were; and the wood had entered into my soul. (2015) Taken from The Superannuated Man
I often wondered whether any of the other grasped that I has done it solely to avoid looking a fool. (2015) Shooting an Elephant

Short Stories

Araby

Examine the appropriateness of the title of the Joyce’s short story Araby. (2012)
Examine Joyce’s use of symbols in his short story Araby. (2013)
Discuss the significance of the title of James Joyce’s Araby. (2014)
Show how Joyce’s Araby is a study of adolescence. (2015)

The Ox

Comment on the use of the symbols in Bate’s story The Ox. (2012)
Analyse the theme of pain and suffering in The Ox. (2013)
Analyse the use of symbols in Bate’s short story The Ox. (2014)
How does H.E. Bates portray the character of Mrs. Thurlow in ‘The Ox’?

The Fly

Bring out the significance of the fly episode in Mansfield’s short story The Fly. (2012)
Bring out the importance of the character of Woodifield in The Fly. (2013)
Would you consider The Fly to be a complex short story with no rigid meaning? Give reasons for your answer. (2014)
Comment of the fly episode of the story ‘The Fly’ and show how it relates to the theme. (2015)

The Secret Sharer
- Discuss the role of the narrator in The Secret Sharer. (2012)
- Comment on the theme of Conrad’s story The Secret Sharer. (2012)
- Discuss the appropriateness of the title of The Secret Sharer. (2013)
- Comment on the importance of the symbols in Conrad’s The Secret Sharer. (2013)
- Examine the role of Leggat in Conrad’s The Secret Sharer. (2014)
- Comment on Conrad’s narrative strategy in The Secret Sharer. (2014)
- Discuss the allegorical meaning of The Secret Sharer. (2015)
- In The Secret Share the Captain’s character changes after his encounter with Leggatt. Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer. (2015)

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