Bankura University English Honours Suggestion 2024 Semester-5 Paper DSE-2 Bankura University Semester-5 English Honours Suggestion 2024 DSE-2

 Bankura University English Honours Suggestion 2024  

Semester-5 Paper DSE-2

Bankura University

Semester-5 English Honours Suggestion 2024

DSE-2

1.Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

(a) Consider Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White as a gothic novel.2020 2022  

(b) Give a detailed account of the character of Laura Fairlie with reference to The Woman in

White.

(c) Discuss The Women in White as a “gothic” novel.2023 

(d) ‘Laura Fairly symbolizes the image of the perfect Victorian woman.’- Analyse the character of Laura in the light of the above statement. 

2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

(a)Analyse Sherlock Holme’s methods and techniques in solving crimes with reference to The

Hound of the Baskervilles.*****

(b)Do you think that the natural landscape of Devonshire is indispensable to the make of the

novel The Hound of the Baskervilles? Discuss the role played by the Devonshire Moor in

support of your view.*****

 (c) Consider The Hound of Baskervilles as a crime novel.****

 (d) Justify the title of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.****

3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

(a)Elucidate the theme of chivalry and realism as depicted in Raymond Chandler's The Big

Sleep.

(b) Briefly write a character-sketch of Inspector Ghote with reference to the novel Inspector

Ghote Goes by Train.****

(c) Describe the role played by the detective Philip Marlowe with reference to Raymond

Chandler’s The Big Sleep.*******

(d) Bring out Inspector Ghote’s tact and skill to detect the criminal “Bhattacharya” with reference to the novel Inspector Ghote Goes by Train.

Group-A

Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2 = 10

a) How did Hugo die in The Hound of the Baskervilles?

b) Name the “woman in white” in Collins’s novel. What does the word “white” convey?

c) Who was Doctor Mortimer and what was his unusual habit?

d) Who in Collins’s novel was hired as a drawing master to Limmeridge household? Name the

students of the master there.

e) Who was the cab driver? What information did he give to Holmes?

f) How does Mrs Fairlie depict Mrs Catherick in her letter?

g) What was the curse in The Hound of the Baskervilles?

h) Who was buried under a false name and why in The Woman in White?

i) Who was Selden? Why was he given death sentence?

j) “The last word went like a bullet to my heart” - Why does the speaker say so?

Group-B

Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2 = 10

 (a) Who predicted that the letters “CCH” on the silver band of the stick stood for a hospital?

Name the hospital.

 (b) How does Hugo die in The Hound of Baskervilles?

 (c) Who did Sherlock Holmes give the last parting advice while driving to Devonshire? What

was the advice?

 (d) Who was Cartwright? Why was Cartwright employed by Sherlock Holmes?

 (e) How does Watson describe Stapleton in his very first meeting?

 (f) Name the “woman in white” in Collins’s novel. What does the word “white” convey?

 (g) Who in Collins’s novel is hired as a drawing master to Limmeridge household? Name the

students of the master there.

 (h) Who is Sir Percival Glyde?

 (i) Which detail about the death of Sir Charles Baskerville is not reported in the newspaper?

 (j) In which year was Collins’s novel published? Name the magazine of Dickens where it was

first serialized.