DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. English/B.A. English (Addl) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2017.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions given below, each not exceeding
150 words.
1. What message does Ulysses convey?
2. Explain the political conditions in the Victorian age.
3. How does W.B. Yeats depict Byzantium?
4. What does T.S. Eliot mean by individual talent?
5. Comment on the theme of Great Expectations.
6. Give an account of Stephen Daedulus.
7. Describe the backdrop of Murder in the Cathedral.
8. What role does Eliza Doolittle play in Pygmation?
SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR essay type questions given below in
400 words each.
9. Discuss the social conditions in the Victorian Age that
influenced the literature.
10. Account for the popularity of J.S. Eliots "The Waste
Land".
Sub. Code
24/105
DE-084
2
sp3
11. What are Mathew Arnold's views on poetry?
12. How does J.S. Eliot differentiate between tradition and
individual talent?
13. Examine the role played by fate in Ters of the
D'ubervilles.
14. Discuss the tragic elements in Riders to the sea.
15. Analyze the humour in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of
Being Earnest.