B.A. ENG (Hons.) Ist year-2000

ENGLISH-PAPER I-2000

(English Literature 4)

Prepared by: Ashoo Sharrma

Q.1. Explain the following lines with reference to their context and of your own critical comments :

(a) She turned,being then in the brightness of a lamp; and raising her hood a little,showed a quiet oval face,dark and rather delicate,irradiated by a pair of very gentle eyes,and further set off by the perfect order of her shining black hair.It was not a face in its first bloom;she was a woman five and -thirty years of age.

Or

 "How could you give me a life,and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death ? Where are the graces of my soul ? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, O father,..... with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here?"

(b) "Yes,my home is pretty and I'm very fond of the river where we go fishing-but I'm often very unhappy. I should have liked to bring my books with me, but I came away in a hurry.......But I can tell you almost everything there is in my books. I've read them so many times- and that will amuse you."

Or

  "I can't believe that you have thought of me so much as I have thought of you...... Do you know when I was away. I made a picture of you as you looked that morning in the study when you said you would not forget me." .....It was a water-colour sketch,of real merit as a portrait. 

(c) Oh Sir,she smiled,no doubt,

Where'er I passed her;but who passed without 

Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

Then all the smiles stopped together.There she stands as if she alive.

Or

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles,whom we know

Though much is taken,much abides;and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven........

Q.2. "Unnatural generally means only uncustomary."Comment on John Stuart Mill's interrogation of gender relations in human societies in the light of this statement.

Or

"The nineteenth century English Novel, for all its formal realism, very often ends on an unreal note."Discuss.

Write a short note on the dramatic monologue in Victorian poetry.

Or

"The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social,political and spiritual processes of life."(Karl Marx).Elaborate.

Q.3. Discuss the Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Or

Discuss the limitations of the Dramatic Monologue.

Q.4. Critically comment on the extensive use of Master-employee/slave/acolyte/imagery in the depiction of the Jane Eyre-Edward Rochester relationship.

 Discuss Jane Eyre's story as one of enclosure and escape.