BDP
Assignment
December-2017 & June-2018
Elective Course
ENGLISH
(New Syllabus)
6th Paper
The Victorians: EEG-6
SECTION - A
1. Answer any two of the following questions:
20 × 2 = 40
a) Write an essay on the nature of Victorian society with reference to its scientific developments and its legislative reforms.
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b) Is ‘Dover Beach’ a poem about the Victorian loss of faith? Substantiate with textual references.
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c) Examine Hardy’s characterisation of Bathsheba in Far From the Madding Crowd.
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d) Show how Emily Brönte treats the theme of immortality in her poem ‘No Coward Soul is Mine’.
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SECTION - B
2.
Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Comment on the Fanny-Sergeant Troy relationship in Far From the Madding Crowd.
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b) Show how Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ handles the Greek Legend in the dramatic monologue form.
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c) Briefly discuss Dickens’ treatment of childhood in David Copperfield.
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d) Write a note on Carlyle’s views on Dante’s Divine Comedy .
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e) Discuss the treatment meted out to Jane by the Reed Family in Jane Eyre.
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f) Critically comment on Christina Rossetti’s use of imagery in ‘A Dirge’ and ‘A Birthday’.
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SECTION - C
3. Answer any four of the following: 6 × 4 = 24
a)
Assess the contributions of any one of the following Victorian prose-writers:
i)
John Ruskin
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ii)
Matthew Arnold.
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b)
Locate and annotate:
“And
yet God has not said a word.”
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c)
Discuss the significance of the Valentine episode in Far From the Madding Crowd.
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d)
Show how the speaker describes her life in the sonnet ‘I Thought Once’.
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e)
Comment briefly on the role of circulating libraries in Victorian England.
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f)
What was the “debtor’s prison”? Explain and comment on the use of the prison
motif in David Copperfield.
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g)
Explain:
“My
heart is like a rainbow shell
That
paddles in the halcyon sea.”
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h)
Comment on the use of the sea as metaphor in Arnold’s “To
Marguerite:
Continued.”
