BA ENGLISH LITERATURE 4 - 2002

ENGLISH LITERATURE -4

(2002)

Prepared by: Ashoo Sharrma

Q.1. Write short notes on the following explaining with reference to the context :

         (a) Charlotte Lucas

         (b) Lydia's elopement with Wickham

         (c) Mr. Tulliver

         (d) The Red Deeps

         (e) "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........."

         (f) Animal imagery in The Goblin Market.

Q.2. (a) "Unnatural generally means only uncustomary." Comment on Mill's interrogation of gender relations in The Subjection of Women in the light of the above statement.

Or

        (b) Discuss Darwin's theory 'the descent of man'.

Q.3.(a) Analyse Louisa Gradgrind's marriage to Bounderby an example of patriarchal and utilitarian "arrangement" in Victorian society.

Or

       (b) The perspective of the factory owner and the rising voice of the workers constitute the two extremes of the account given by Dickens of the labour movement represented in Hard Times.

Q.4. (a) "Thornfield's attic in Jane Eyre becomes a space where Jane's rationality and irrationality intersect." Discuss.

Or

        (b) "In the figure of Bertha Mason, Charlotte Bronte has represented the violence inherent in and imposed by patriarchy and imperialism." Discuss.