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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2014 [Fourth Paper]

2014
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
1.       Answer any one of the following questions: (within 600 words)    16x1                                                                                              
a)      Comment on Jane Austen’s treatment of the theme of marriage in Pride and Prejudice.
b)      Pride and Prejudice has been called a ‘comedy of manners’. Do you agree with this view? Justify your answer.
c)       Write a note on Scott’s treatment of history in Kenilworth. 
d)      Illustrate Scott’s art of characterization, focusing on any two characters in Kenilworth. 
Group-B
2. Answer any one of the following questions: (within 600 words)    16x1       
a)      Comment on Lamb’s style as an essayist with reference to the prescribed essay.
b)      Discuss Orwell’s views about imperialism in Shooting an Elephant.
 3. Explain with reference to the context. Any one of the following phrases: (within 300 words)  8x1
a)      “….. for Naturall Abilities are like Naturall Plants, that need Proyning by Study”.
b)      Had I a little son, I would christen him, Nothing-To-Do, he should do nothing.


Group-C
4. Write note (in around 200 words each) on any two of the following literary terms.      5 x 2
a.       Picaresque Novel
b.      Point of view
c.       Theme
d.      Short Story
Group-D
5. Answer any two of the following questions: (each within 600 words)                                                16 X 2
a)      Discuss the significance of the title of James Joyce’s Araby.
b)      Analyse the use of symbols in Bate’s short story The Ox.
c)       Would you consider The Fly to be a complex short story with no rigid meaning? Give reasons for your answer.
Group-E
5. Answer any one of the following questions: (within 700 words)                                          18 X 1
a)      Examine the role of Leggat in Conrad’s The Secret Sharer.
d)      Comment on Conrad’s narrative strategy in The Secret Sharer.


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Thursday, 5 February 2015

C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2014 [Third Paper]

2014
ENGLISH-HONOURS
Third 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
(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.1 and 2)
1. (a) Examine critically how in Edward II Marlowe has transformed the chronicle play into tragedy.                                                                                                                                                                        16
Or
(b) Bring out the dramatic significance of the Abdication Scene (Act V, Sc. i) in Edward II.                     
2. (a) Comment on how the woodland setting in  A Midsummer Night’s Dream contributes to the theme of the play.                                                                                                                                         16
Or
(b) Examine the significance of the title in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 300 words)         8x1
a)      Then so am I, and live to
do him service:
But while I have a sword,
A hand, a heart,
I will not yield to any
Such upstart.
 Or
b)      And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Group-B
4. Write on any two of the following literary terms within 200 words each:          5x2
Climax, Comic Relief, Hamartia, Three Unities.
Group-C
(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.5 and 6)
5. (a) Examine the significance of the Faulkland-Julia episode in The Rivals.                       16
Or                                                                                                            
(b)Sheridan’s The Rival was intended as a mockery of ‘the Sentimental Muse’. Discuss.

6. (a) Analyse Shakespeare’s treatment of the supernatural in Macbeth.                                                   16
Or
(b) Critically comment on the role of Macduff in Macbeth.                               16

7. Explain the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 350 words)                      9x2
a)      ‘Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the Weird Women promis’d; and, I FEAR,
Thou play’dst most foully for’t; yet it was said,
It should not stand in thy prosperity;
Or
b)      – Then fly, false Thames:
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear.

c)       Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; -- and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries;--
Or


d)      What, you have been treating me like a child! – humouring my romance! and laughing, I suppose, at your success ! 


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