DU SOL Question Paper 2018 BA (Hons.) English - Anglo American Writing from 1930

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Your Rall No.

B.A. (Hons./lll (t

ENGLISH--Paper lX(a) (C- | 04)

(Anglo-American Writing frorn I 930)

Tirue : 3 Hours Maximttm ll'larks : 100

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applicable for the students of SOL. These marks will,

however, be scaled down prcrportionately in respect of

the students of regular colleges, at the time of
posting of awards tbr compilation of result.

Attempt all the four questions.

Question No. I has three parts and

Question No. 2 has two parts.

Each of the three parts of Question No. I and

two in Question No. 2 are to be answered.

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l. (a) ldentify, contextualize and critically comment on the

When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie

Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.

The tigers in the panel that she made

Will go on prancing. proud and unafraid.

a
I who have stood dumb
when your betraying sisters,

cauled in tar,

wept by the railings,

who would connive

in civilzed outrage

yet understand the exact

and tribal, intimate revenge.

(b) Discuss the relation between the idea of masculinity and

the empire with reference to 'The Door of Opportunity'.

(3 )

&
story'
Discuss Fitzgerald's use
of metaphors to further his

*The Crack-UP"'

comment on the
(c) Identify, contextualize and critically

Because it is my name
! Because I cannot have another
sign myself to lies ! Because
in my life ! Because I lie and
of those that hang !
I am not worth the dust on the feet
name ? | have given
you
How may I live without my

my soul; leave me mY name
!

Or

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Elizabeth Proctor
groups
(a) (t) "Writers and politicians are natural rivals' both
own images; they
try to make the world in their
the novel is one
fight for the same tenitory' And
politician's version of
way of denying the official'

truth." Comment'

&
the relationshiP
(t,) How does George Orwell view
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between language and politics

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(6) (t Discuss the significance of oral narratives in Black

American fiction with reference to any text in your

course.

&
tii) Attempt a short note on McCarthyism
(0 Through the story ofsethe and her dead daughter, Beloved,

Morrison writes a saga of four centuries of slavery in

her novel. Discuss.

a
(rr) "How much can a nigger take ? Tell me, How much ?"
In the light of this statement, analyse Morrison's Beloved

as a black man's narrative. 20

(0 Attempt a comparative analysis of the characters of the

lieutenant and the 'whiskey priest' in The Power and

the Clttn'.

Or

(i,l Discuss !n detaii the representation of children in

The Power and the Glory. n

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