2020
ENGLISH — HONOURS
Paper: CC-12
Full Marks: 65
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words
as far as practicable.
1. Answer any five questions: 1×5
(a) What is the name of the Shakespearean character that’s mentioned in Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock’.
(b) Explain in brief about the simile that Yeats uses to explain the beauty in his poem ‘No Second Troy.
(c) The Bible that she was attached to Mrs. Morelwas given by whom?
(d) Write about the last words uttered by Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness?
(e) From where did Eliza Doolittle come from before she started taking lessons from Henry Higgins?
(f) Name the war which forms the background of the poem ‘Spring Offensive’?
2. (a) Write short notes on critical appreciation of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes.’ in brief 15
Or,
(b) Define Owen’s ‘Spring Offensive’ as an anti-war poem. 15
3. (a) What do you mean by Conrad’s use of symbolism in Heart of Darkness. 15
Or,
(b) What is the effectiveness of Marlow’s role as narrator in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. 15
4. (a) What do you think about Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers as a psychological novel. 15
Or,
(b) Sons and Lovers deals with familial relationships. Explain in brief. 15
5. (a) How does Pygmalion effect class distinction? 15
Or,
(b) What are the importance and appropriateness of the title of Shaw’s play Pygmalion. 15
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