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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

June, 2005

MEG-3 : BRITISH NOVEL

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Fielding depicts varieties of female characters, belonging to different strata of society, in Tom Jones. Comment. (20)

2. Attempt a post-colonial reading of Pride and Prejudice. (20)

3. Examine the character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights critically. Is he a realistic character or more of a symbolic representation? (20)

4. In Great Expectations Dickens makes use of the fairy-tale mode. Would you agree? Give a reasoned answer. (20)

5. Discuss George Eliot's role as a social historian in the background of Middlemarch. (20)

6. What do you understand by the use of the term "efficiency" in the context of imperialisrn ? Discuss, keeping the Heart of Darkness in mind. (20)

7. Can A Potroit Of The Artist As A Young Man be called an "aesthetic autobiography" ? Comment with examples from the text. (20)

8. How does Forster bring out the complex picture of Islam in A Passage to India ? Discuss with examples from the novel. (20)

9. Comment on the perspectives The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie offers on education and art. Give illustrations from the text in support of your answer. (20)