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ENGLISH
Paper I
(Literature)
[ Time Allowed : Three Hours
I IMaximum Marks :-300 I
INSTRUCTION S
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Candidates should attempt Question Nos. 1 and 5
which are compulsory, and any three of the
remaining questions, selecting at least one
question from each Section.
The number of marks carried by each question
is indicated at the end of the question.
Answers must be written in
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Section 'A'
1. \Vrite short notes on any· three of the followiJlg :
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(a)
The role of the Fool in King Lear.
(b)
The Metaphysical element in John Donne's
poetry.
· (c)
'The Rape of the Lock' as a Satire on
eighteenth century 'Polite Society'.
(d)
The theme and style of 'Michael' . as an
example of Wordsworth's poetic principles.
2. (a)
What are the features that distinguish Jacobean·
tragedy from the Elizabethan ? Discuss with
examples.
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(b)
What do you understand by the term "NeoClassicism" ?
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3. (a) .What were the IJlajor preoccupations of the
Victorian writers ? Illustrate from the texts you
have studied.
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(b)
Comment on the Caliban-Prospero relationship
in The Tempest.
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4. What relevance does A Doll's House have to
contemporary life in the 21st century? pive your
vtews.
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Section 'B'
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5. Study the following poem and answer the questions
which follow : eaCh answer should be around 60
words·.
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Mirror
I am silver- and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or -dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful .
The eye of a little God, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends ovet me,
Searching my, reaches for what she really is
Then she turns to I those liars, the candles· or the
moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of
hands.
I am important to _her. She·comes and goes.
Each morning it is her ｦ｡｣ｾ＠
that replaces the
darkness.·
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an
old woman
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Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
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(i) Paraphrase the poem in 6-8 sentences.
(ii) What is the theme of the poem ?
(iii) Identify the speaker and the claims made by
the speaker of the poem.
(iv) What is the relationship between the woman
and the speaker ?
(v) Explain the words "Now I am a lake".
(vi) Comment on the meaning of the last two
lines.
6. (a)
Gulliver's Travels and The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn are known as children's
classics. What appeal do they hold for the
adult reader ? Discuss.
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(b)
"The tale is that of a man-hunt." Do you agree
with this critical view with reference to Pride
and Prejudice ?
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7. (a)
(b)
Consider Tom Jones as a comic epic in prose
about a foundling.
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Critically examine the role played by
dence in Tess of the 0' Urbendlles.
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8. Maggie Tulliver's two relationships ·with Philip
Wakem and Stephen Guest were both doomed to
failure. Analyse the reasons behind this.
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ENGLISH
Paper II
(Literature}
ITime Allowed: Three Hours!
!Maximum Marks : 300j
INSTRUCTIONS
Candidates should attempt questions no. I. and 5
which are c01npulsory; and any THREE of the
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questions, selecting at least ONE
question frorn each Section.
The number of rnarks carried by each question
is indicated at the end of the question.
Answers 1nust be written in English.
SECTION A
1.
Write short notes on the following :
(a)
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Prufrock's struggle to find a proper emotion for the
occasion he wants to celebrate.
(b)
Yeats' preoccupation with old age and death in The
Tower.
(c)
The Shield of Achilles and the poet's handling of
dark premonition.
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2.
{a)
Who are the "Poets of the Thirties" and what is
their contribution to English literature ? Explain.
(b)
Comment on the elements of modern English
poetry in Philip Larkin's poems prescribed for your
study.
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4.
With examples, highlight the major
approaches to Indian English literature.
(a)
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post-colonial
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What is 'Kitchen-sink realism'? Comment on this
phenomenon in the light of Look Back in Anger.
(b)
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If Waiting for Godot is considered to be a play on
the
absurdity
exarnme if
exploration.
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life
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standpoint
meaning,
for
this
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SECTIONB
5.
Read the following passage and answer the questions
that follow :
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This penitential mood kept her from naming the
wedding-day. The beginning of November found its
date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the
most tempting times. But Tess's desire seemed to be
for a perpetual betrothal in which everything should
remain as it was then.
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The meads were changing now; but it was still
warm enough in early afternoons before milking to
idle there awhile, and the state of dairy-work at this
time of year allowed a spare hour for idling. Looking
over the damp sod in the direction of the sun, a
glistening ripple of gossamer webs was visible to their
eyes under the luminary, like the track of moonlight
on the sea. Gnats, knowing nothing of their brief
glorification, wandered across the shimmer of this
pathway, irradiated as if they bore fire within them,
then passed out of its line, and were quite extinct. In
the presence of these things he would remind her that
the date was still the question.
Or he would ask her at night, when he
accompanied her on some miSSion invented by
Mrs. Crick. to give him. the opportunity. This was
mostly a journey to the farmhouse on the slopes above
the vale, to inquire how the advanced cows were
getting on in the straw-barton to which they were
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relegated. For it was a time of the year that brought
great changes to the world of kine. Batches of the
animals were sent away daily to this lying-in hospital,
where they lived on straw till their calves were born,
after which event, and as soon as the calf could walk,
mother and offspring were driven back to the dairy. In
the interval which elapsed before the calves were sold
there was, of course, little milking to be done, but as
soon as the calf had been taken away the milkmaids
would have to set to work as usuaL
(a)
What does the author say about cows and calves ?
{b)
On which occasions did he ask Tess about the
wedding?
(c)
Comment on the changing season as depicted by
the author.
(d)
What led the man to remind the woman of "the
date"?
(e)
Why did not Tess name the wedding day ?
(f)
Explain the
meaning of any
five
of the s1x
underlined words/terms in the passage, keeping in
mind the context in which these are used.
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The artist 'is at once a member of his society, a
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rebel, a martyr and the possible saviour, in whose
imagination
the
spirit
of man
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continually
affirmed.' Explain how this definition applies to
Stephen in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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(b)
After his failure in two crucial tests of his life, is
Jim in Lord Jim redeemed ?
7.
(a)
(b)
8.
(a)
(b)
In
Mrs.
Dalloway,
we
stay
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with. Clarissa's
consciousness for the most part. - Do you agree ?
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In Sons and Louers, what does the nature of how
Paul Morel relates to his women lovers tell us
about the meaning of the novel ?
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Critically analyse A Passage to India
Englishman's view of the Indian scenario.
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as
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What do the problems faced by Mr. Biswas with the
Tulsis, tell us about both ?
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