SECTION-A
I. Write short notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in 150 words 12 x 5=60

In King Lear "Cordelia's goodness is as absolute and inexplicable as her sisters' reprovable badness ... ." Critically analyse the above statement with reference to your reading of King Lear.

"The Classical humanism of the Renaissance was fundamentally medieval and fundamentally Christian .... " Critically analyse this statement.

How do the 'Sylphs' help in the development of the 'mock-epic' element in The Rape of the Lock?

"The Romantic age marks the end of pastoral poetry in the very shock of its collision with actual country experience." Critically evaluate this statement.

Comment on the use of bildungsroman narrative in Victorian novels.

2. Answer each of the following in about 400 words
30x2=60
Critically examine if the treatment of Caliban in
The Tempest is a reflection of the emergence of
European Colonialism during the Elizabethan
period.


How does Milton use paganism to describe the fallen angels in Paradise Lost 9 Your answer should be based on your close reading of Paradise Lost, Book I.
3. Answer each of the following in about 250 words
20x3=60
T.S. Eliot described Donne's imagery as follows" the elaboration ... of a figure of speech to the furthest stage to which ingenuity can carry it." Analyse this quality with reference to Donne's poems.

In Memorian explores the relationship between science and religion.
"Despite its macabre opening theme, The Relic has some flashes of comic wit which shows Donne's readiness to joke even when his subject is serious." Critically analyse this statement.

4. There are three questions and to be answered.
Answer the following in about 250 words each
2Qx3=60
Write an essay on the 'Condition of England' in the novels written in the Victorian Age.
Critically analyse Ibsen's use of symbolism in A Doll's House. How does the symbolism complement the realistic tone of the play?

Analyse the use of 'blank verse' by Wordsworth in his poems.

SECTION-B
5. This question has two poems and Read the poem
carefully and answer the questions at the end of the
poem in about 80-100 words.

I found this jawbone at the sea's edge
There crabs, dogfish, broken by the breakers or tossed
To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust,
Continue the beginning. The deeps are cold
In that darkness, camaraderie does not hold
Nothing touches, but clutching, devours. And the jaws
Before they are satisfied or their stretched purpose
Slacken, go down; go grawn bare. Jaws
Eat and are finished and the jawbone comes to the beach.

This is the sea's achievement with shells.
Vertebrae, claws, carapaces. skulls.

Time in the sea eats its tail, thrives,
Casts these indigestibles, the spars of purpose
That failed far from the surface. None grow rich
In the sea. This curved jawbone did not laugh
But gripped, gripped, and is now a cenotaph

Explain these lines
To flap for half an hour and tum to a crust,
Continue the beginning.
Nothing touches, but clutching, devours.

Explain these lines
.... the spars of purpose
That failed far from the surface.
But gripped, gripped, and is now a
cenotaph.
Comment on the image-''Time in the sea
eats its tail". 5
What poetic effect is gained by the use of half-
rhymes in this poem?
Critically comment on the language of the poem.
What according to the poet, is .. the sea's
achievement"

"The first that died was little Jane;
In bed she moaning lay,
Till God released her of her pain,
And then she went away. 4

in the churchyard she was laid,
And all the summer dry,
Together round her grave we played,
My brother John and I. 8

'And when the ground was white with snow,
And I could run and slide,
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side. 12

'How many are you then, said
If they two are in heaven
The little maiden did reply,
master we are seven.' 16

'But they are dead; those two are dead
Their spirits are in heaven
Twas throwing words -away; for still
The little maid would have her will,
And said, 'Nay. we are seven!' 20

What is the function of the modifier 'little'
in line I
What does the poet say about the materialist
elements of the girl and the landscape
How does the poet describe the girl's own
life and the death of her siblings
Does the poet make his presence felt in the
poem Critically analyse this,

Answer each of the following in about 400 words
30x2=60
Gulliver's four voyages display different aspects
of Swift's critique of his age, Discuss with
illustrative references.

Analyse the position of women in the Victorian era with special reference to Maggie Tulliver and Tess.

7. This question has three parts and Each part should be answered in about 250 words 20x3=60

In what way did Tom Jones contribute to the development of the novel in terms of both the form and content Substantiate your answer with reference to the novel.
How do gender and class play an important role in the development of the plot in Pride and Prejudice?

Do you think Darcy and Elizabeth are the main protagonists for the development of the plot in Pride and Prejudice Or do you think Bingley and Jane are parallel protagonists in this novel Answer your question on the basis of a close reading of the novel.

8 . This question has three parts and Answer each part in about 250 words 20x3=60
Discuss Hard Times as a satire on several contemporary value systems-Utilitarianism, Materialism, Capitalism and Rationalism. Critically consider Huckleberry Finn as a novel about the conflict between society and the individual.
Many nineteenth century reviewers were critical of Tess of the d'Urbervilles accusing Hardy of depicting immorality in the novel. In what ways might Nineteenth-century readers have found this novel 'immoral'