Department of English
Assignment questions for the month of August 2016
I semester – Optional English
British Literature
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5X3=15mks
Chaucer’s Squire represents the youths of the medieval English society in transition. Substantiate.
Summarize the poem ‘The Sunne Rising’ by John Donne.
Analyze ‘Macbeth’ as a tragic play.
‘A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the mother’. Discuss.
III semester – Optional English
Victorian Era
Answer any 4 of the following
5X4=20 mks
1. Alfred Lord Tennyson is a representative of the Victorian Era. Explain.
2. Robert Browning’s interest was centered in the moral and spiritual forces and conflicts of men and
women. Explain this with respect to ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
3. Explain the extract from ‘Aurora Leigh’ as an artist’s longing for knowledge and freedom.
4. How might Bounderby’s character fit with Dickens’s social program to explode the myth of the selfmade man?
5. What is the message that Mr. Grandgrid wants to give to the students in the novel ‘Hard Times’?
V semester – Optional English
European and Non-European Literature
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15X3=45 mks
Explain the plot of ‘Antigone’ on the terms of peripeteia, hubris and anagnorisis.
‘Antigone’ is a play with civic duty, rituals and personal interest contesting with each other. Explain.
The play ‘Antigone’ reveals the changes in political and cultural life of Athens. Substantiate.
Sketch the characters of the two tragic figures in ‘Antigone’.
LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION – 25th AUGUST 2016