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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
M.A.DEGREE EXAMINATION ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIRDSEMESTER APRIL 2018
EL 3812- BRITISH PROSE AND FICTION
Date: 26-04-2018 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 09:00-12:00
I . Answer any five of the following in about 150 words each (5x8=40 marks)
1. What are Hazlitt's reflections on the importance of travel in completing ones education?
2. Bring out the pathos in the lives of the chimmey sweeps.
3. Comment on the relationship between Mr. Ramsay and his son James.
4. What does the lawyer do to save Mrs. Leslie Crosbie from a sure death sentence?
5. Estimate the character of Sir Roger in "Sir Roger at Church."
6. Why does the youth feel that his idealized vision of Araby and love is destroyed?
7. Evaluate Bacon's views on parents and children.
8. Discuss the nature of conflict between Ralph and Jack.
II. Answer the following in about 400 words each 3x20=60 marks)
9. Discuss the thematic importance of the dinner scene in "To the Lighthouse."
Or
Do you think that the letter in "Demon Lover" is a figment of the protagonist's imagination and
stems from a distress of mind and body?
10. Comment on "The Grass is Singing" as a postcolonial novel.
Or
Critically evaluate the ideas given by Bacon in "Of Friendship."
11. "Animal Farm" deals with the problems of the labour class in a totalitarian society. Discuss.
Or
"The Lord of the Flies" is an expression of the tensions between good and evil. Substantiate.