(ENGLISH)
( SECOND YEAR )
( PART - III )
( PAPER - IV )
650. PROSE AND FICTION
( Common to B.A. English and
Communication )
( Including Lateral Entry and Double Degree )
May ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
Answer ALL the questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
I. Annotate any FIVE of the following
passages choosing at least TWO from each group :
GROUP - A
(a) Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as he has assigned.
(b) This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better; and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
(c) A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
(d) We find in Cato innumerable beauties which enamor us of its author, but see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments or human actions.
(e) He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit degenerating clenches; his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him.
GROUP - B
(f) But education is a higher word; it implies an action upon our mental nature and the formation of a character; it is something individual and permanent and is commonly spoken of in connection with religion and virtues.
(g) The moralist will tell us that man, in all his functions, is but a flower which blossoms and fades, except so far as a higher principle breathes upon him and makes him of what he is immortal.
(h) Knowledge is then the indispensable condition of expansion of mind, and the instrument of attaining it; this cannot be denied; it is ever to be insisted on.
(i) It does not promise a generation of Aristotle or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washington or Raphaela or Shakespeare; though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts.
(j) They are born, not framed; they are a strain rather than a composition; and their perfection is the monument; not so much of his skill as of his power.
SECTION - A ( 1 × 20 = 20)
II. Answer any ONE of the following :
(a) Do you agree with the view of Johnson "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the poet that nods up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life" ?
(b) Estimate Johnson as a literary critic of Shakespeare's plays.
(c) What are the four components according to Johnson in his "Preface to Shakespeare"?
SECTION - B ( 1 × 20 = 20)
III. Answer any ONE of the following :
(a) What is Newman 's idea of a university ?
(b) In what sense is knowledge its very own end, according to Newman?
(c) Comment on the prose style of Newman.
SECTION - C (2 × 20 = 40)
IV. Answer any TWO of the following :
(a) How does Orwell establish that Tolstoy's conclusion about Shakespeare are unwarranted ?
(b) Discuss the tittle of the novel A Passage to India as an appropriate one.
(c) What according to Dickens are the Great Expectations of Pip in the novel ?
(d) Contrast Clym 's idealism with Eustacia's romanticism as revealed in The Return of the Native.
(e) Why does Max Beerbohm call London, the flower of cities ?
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