M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Third Semester
English
WORLD CLASSICS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
(CBCS 2013 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all questions.
1. Who is Odysseus's Guardian Goddess?
2. To what animal does Dante compare the Usurers?
3. What are the two classifications of sangam poems?
4. What does the puram poem treat?
5. Who is rumored to have killed Laius?
6. Why does the Chaplain join the wagon?
7. Why did Durvasa curse Sakuntala?
8. Why does Gregers think his father hated his mother?
9. What is the subject of the book Levin plans to write?
10. What does the psychic Landau instruct Karenin to do?
Sub. Code
701302
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Part B x 5 25)
Answer each of the following questions,
choosing either or
11. Comment on the portrayal of Odysseus.
Or
Why was Dante unafraid about the future?
12. How does Ramanujan describe the Sangam's
concept of love?
Or
Comment on Ramanujan's translation of Sangam
poems.
13. Analyze the function of Tiresias in Oedipus Rex.
Or
Bring out the role of the Chaplain in Mother
Courage and Her Children.
14. Discuss Kalidasa's portrayal of womanhood through
Sakuntala.
Or
Critically evaluate the role of Hialmar Ekdal in
The Wild Duck.
15. How far in Levin central to the novel Anna
Karenina?
Or
Discuss the cowardice of Alexei Karenin in Anna
Karenina.
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Part C x 10 30)
Answer any THREE of the following questions.
16. Examine Dante's portrait of Geryon.
17. Discuss the elements of love and war in sangam poems.
18. Consider Mother Courage and Her Children an antiwar
drama.
19. Examine the theme of deception in The Wild Duck.
20. How does Tolstoy give access to the inner thoughts of the
characters in Anna Karenina?