DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (Eng.)/B.A. (Eng.) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2018.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. Write a note on the political conditions of the Victorians.
2. Examine Browning's views on God as found in ''Andrea
Del Sarto''.
3. Write the plan or goals of Ulysses.
4. Discuss Arnold's religious and Literary criticism.
5. Trace the humour and pathos in Great Expectations.
6. Discuss Hardy's views on Nature, with particular
reference to Tess of the D'urbervilles.
7. Give an account of the temptation of Becket on his
return.
8. Write a note on the mythological background in
Pygmalion.
PART B — x 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Criticise the literary tendencies of Victorians.
10. Write an essay on Eliot's social criticism in Waste

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11. Discuss Arnold's social criticism in Scholar Gipsy''.
12. Elucidate Eliot's views on the relationship between
tradition and Individual Talent.
13. Discuss the technique used in A Portrait of the Artist.
14. Consider Riders to the sea as a tragedy.
15. Justify the title Importance of Being Ernest''.