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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-3 : BRITISH NOVEL

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Through the moral viewpoint in Tom Jones, Fielding aims at corecting distortions in human behaviour. Do you agree ? Discuss. (20)

2. Do you think Jane Austen privileges 'education', over nature as formative of a person's character in Pride and Prejudice ? Explain with reasons. (20)

3. Is there a contradiction between the Catherine that loves Heathcliff and the Catherine that marries Edgar ? Give reasons and discuss. (20)

4. How do you respond to the Pip - Estella relationship ? Illustrate your answer with examples from the text. (20)

5. To what extent do you think is Dorothea a conventional Victorian heroine ? Explain with examples. (20)

6. What is the civilising work of the White community according to "Heart of Darkness" ? Explain (20)

7. How does Joyce establish a distance between himself and Stephen ? Explain with illustrations. (20)

8. What does Forster say about Islam through his use of the mosque in A Passage to India ? Explain. (20)

9. Miss Brodie is an unconventional woman who also symbolises Fascism in the novel. Do you agree? Discuss. (20)