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Bankura University 3rd Semester
English Honours
Suggestion-2023
Paper -6
By PKG Sir
A. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens Hard Times
(10+5)
Q.1.Industrial novel.
Q.2.Fact and fancy opposition.
Q.3.Discuss the title of the Hard Times .
Q.4.Sketch the character of Stephen Blackpool /Thomas Gradgrind/Tom. Study Materials
Q.5..Dickens has divided his novel Hard Times into three sections entitled “Sowing”, “Reaping” and “Garnering”. Consider the structure of the novel showing the significance of these sections.
Q.6.Critically consider the character and role of Stephen Blackpool in Dickens’s Hard Times.
Q.7.Write an essay on the relationship of Elizabeth and Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Q.8.Sketch the character of Darcy /Kitty /Collins
Q.9.Critically examine Jane Austen’s use of irony in the novel Pride and Prejudice.
Q.10. Pride and Prejudice primarily deals with the theme of love and marriage.– Discuss.
Q.11.Critically evaluate the use of irony in Austin’s Pride and Prejudice.
Q.12 Critically consider the function of the Circus troupe in Hard Times by Charles Dickens.
Q.13.Briefly sketch the character of Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times by Charles Dickens.
Q.14..How appropriate is the title of the novel Pride and Prejudice?—Discuss.
Q.15.Discuss Jane Austen’s portrayal of English social life in her novel Pride and Prejudice?
B.. Answer any one of the following questions 1x10= 10
Alfred Tennyson ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Ulysses’ (10+5)
Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’ , ‘The Last Ride Together’
Q.1.Analyse the imagery in Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and show how the images help to build up the mood in the poem.
Q.2. Sketch the character of the Duke as revealed in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”.
Q. 3. Consider Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ as a dramatic monologue. 10
Q.4. The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred Tennyson is a poem on indomitable human desire.–Discuss.
Q.5.In “The last Ride Together” Browning presents the concept that “attempt is more important than achievement”.—Discuss.
Q.6. Discuss Tennyson’s attitude to life as presented in his poem “Ulysses”.
Q.7.Discuss My Last Duchess as a dramatic monologue.
/What is epigraph? Discuss the significance of it.
Q.8.How does Ulysses represent his son? Discuss the character of Telemachus.
C. Answer any one of the following questions 1x10= 10
History of English Literature: Victorian Period
Q.Write an essay on the contribution of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to English poetry.
Q.Consider critically Thomas Hardy’s achievements as a novelist of the Victorian period.
Q.Write a note on the women novelists of the Victorian period.
Q. Assess the contribution of the Pre-Raphaelite poets to Victorian English poetry.
Q.Assess the contribution of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Victorian poetry.
Q.Write a note on Victorian prose with special reference to John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle.
Q.Characteristics of Victorian age./Write a note on Victorian Women novelists.
Q.Briefly assess the contributions of major male novelists of early Victorian age.
Q.Describe the features of the Victorian age.
Q..Discuss the works of Lord Tennyson.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2= 10
1) Why does Elizabeth refuse to marry Collins in Pride and Prejudice?
2. How did Wickham agree to marry Lydia?
3. Why did Darcy’s first proposal make Elizabeth angry?
4. Comment on the significance of the name Gradgrind.
5. What is the symbolic significance of Mrs. Sparsit’s ‘Staircase’?
6.How did Stephen Blackpool lose his job?
7.“It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles”— What does the speaker mean by “Happy Isles”? Whom does the speaker expect to see there?
8.“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”— Comment.
9.What does the speaker in Browning’s “The Last Ride Together” say about the achievement of a ‘great sculptor’?
10.“Fra Pandolf chanced to say”— Who was Fra Pandolf? What did he say?
11.‘I am part of all that I have met.’ What does the speaker want to mean?
12.‘Who knows what’s fit for us?’ Why does the speaker think so?
13.Very briefly explain the significance of the chapter ‘A Loophole’.
14.‘The instant made eternity,…’ Comment with reference to the context.
15.‘Iam half sick of shadows’– Point out some ‘shadows’ referred to.
16.‘You may cut the piece out with your penknife if you like, Tom. I wouldn’t cry!’– What compelled the speaker to comment so?
17.‘Angels are not like me.’ When does the speaker say so and why?
18.What is the prime objective in the life of Mrs. Bennet?
19. ‘I would not wish to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.’ Briefly explain the situation that influenced the speaker to say so.
20.‘I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner’– What motivated the speaker to say so?
21. What was Darcy’s comment about Elizabeth in the ball at Netherfield Park?
22. How is Mr. Darcy responsible for the break up between Jane and Mr. Bingley?
23 .According to Elizabeth, what is special about the character of Jane?
24.Explain the Biblical allusion in the title of the chapter “The One Thing Needful”.
26.How is the “old women” introduced in the novel Hard Times? What is her real identity?
27.Who is called the “bully of humility” and why?
28.Who was Telemachus? How does Ulysses differentiate himself from Telemachus?
29.Where is the Lady of Shalott imprisoned? What was she called by the reapers?
30.What does the fate of ‘the last duchess’? Who was responsible for that?
31.How does the lover justify his failure in love in “The last Ride Together”?
2022 Question Paper Bankura University.
1. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was at first titled First Impressions. Examine how the present title of the novel is more appropriate than the draft title.
b) In which ways is Elizabeth different from the rest of the Bennet family? What does the contrast reveal about her character?
c) Consider critically how Dickens’ Hard Times shows the failure of the utilitarian education system of the time.
d) Discuss the role of Sissy Jupe in Hard Times.
2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) In what ways is ‘Ulysses’ a representative Victorian poem? — Discuss.
b) How does the lover-speaker in Browning’s ‘The Last Ride Together’ justify his failure? Answer with close reference to the text.
3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10
a) Write a note on Victorian poetry with special reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
b) Write an essay on Thomas Carlyle’s contribution to English non-fictional prose.
4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2 = 10
a) What is the prime objective in the life of Mrs. Bennet?
b) What are the charges brought by Wickham against Mr. Darcy?
c) What attitude to Elizabeth is expressed by Mr. Darcy at the ball?
d) What is the source of the title of Chapter II, “Murdering the Innocents”, in Dickens’s Hard Times? How are the “Innocents” murdered?
e) “You are the Hand they have sent to Coventry” – Name the “Hand”. What does the phrase“sent to Coventry” mean?
f) Briefly explain the significance of the chapter ‘A Loophole’.
g) What was the curse of the Lady residing in the island of Shalott?
h) What does Ulysses say about his son Telemachus in Tennyson’s poem ‘Ulysses’?
i) “Thus leant she and lingered” – How did she lean and linger?
j) “Who would stoop to blame/This sort of trifling?” – What attitude of the speaker is expressed in these lines?
very useful for the students
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