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JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1
M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 203
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of
submission: Max. Marks: 30
Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is
compulsory for all the students. It carries 10 marks - total
Q. 1. Answer
all the questions:
I. What does
the lighthouse symbolize in to the lighthouse?
Answer: The Lighthouse
symbolizes human desire, a force that pulsates over the indifferent sea of the
natural world and guides people’s passage across it. Yet even as the Lighthouse
stands constant night and day, season after season, it remains curiously
unattainable. James’ frustrated desire to visit the Lighthouse begins the
II. ‘Describe
the condition of the coalminers as painted by George Overall in Down the Mine”
Answer: Orwell, apparently, took many trips down into the
coal mines to follow along with the workers and see how it was done. But he
never did the work itself--a technique of sociology largely lost, today,
although I
III. How does
Stephen’s Catholic morality complicate his experience of sexuality?
Answer: Stephen has a
conflicted relationship to his Irish nationality, largely because of the fact
that his family and friends have conflicting political views about Ireland and
its independence. On one hand, Stephen's governess,
IV. Name the
two essayists prescribed for your syllabus along with two essays written by
each.
Answer: George Orwell :The king of dystopia and
satire, George Orwell, the pen name adopted by Eric Arthur Blair, was a
well-known novelist and
V. What do
you understand by the term Gothic. Name the author and the work which has an
element of the ‘Gothic’in it.
Answer: Gothic fiction,
sometimes called Gothic horror in the 20th century, is a genre of literature
and film that covers horror, death and at times romance. It is said to derive
from the English author Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto,
later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Early contributors included Clara
Reeve, Ann
VI. Write a
brief note on the significance of the title “Inside the Whale”.
Answer: Orwell’s essays remain
so valuable and readable for a number of reasons, not least the clarity of his
prose style and the related clear-headedness of his analysis. Of course, the
fact that he so often seems to have
VIII. Write a
short note on the stream of consciousness novel.
Answer: Stream of consciousness
is a narrative device that attempts to give the written equivalent of the
character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue (see
below), or in connection to their actions. Stream-of-consciousness writing is
usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is
IX. Discuss
the theme of advent of fate in “The Toy Shop “by Angela Center.
Answer: The search for self and for autonomy is the
underlying theme of most of Angela Carter’s ) ( 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992),
fiction. Her protagonists, usually described as bored or in some other way
detached from their lives, are thrust into unknown landscapes or embark on
picaresque journeys in
X. Write the central idea of A wounded civilization
by V.S.Naipaul.
Answer: In his An Area of Darkness V. S. Naipaul had
measured the India of 1963 against the nostalgic, imagined India
NOTE: Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5
Marks. (4*5=20 Marks) (500 Words).
Q.2 Define
‘Symbolism’ and describe the symbols used by Yeatsin the poem “Sailing to
Byzantium”
Answer: Symbols in
“Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B.Yeats are best understood in terms of the ways in
which Yeats negotiated with the anxieties of both personal and social
implications of modernism. The prominent symbols help to add multiple
dimensions to the poem, enriching the central theme of quest for immortality.
Six of the most
Q.3 Do you think that Eliot was influenced by Bhagvad Geeta? Illustrate
with examples from Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Answer: Eliot’s earliest poetic depiction of
ascetical detachment from one’s actions comes in The Waste Land’s[2]
(hereafter, WL) third section, titled “The Fire Sermon,” after a discourse
attributed to the Buddha, in which the sage maintains that all sensible experiences,
indeed every act of consciousness, are aflame with the fire of passion and
heedless desire. The Buddha insists that only by becoming averse to such
Q4. Discuss
W.B. Yeats as a modern poet .
Answer: Yeats as a modern poet: Yeats, like T. S.
Eliot, is a representative modern poet and presents the spirit of the age in
his poetry. Like Eliot, Yeats also uses myth, symbolism, juxtaposition,
colloquial language and literary allusions as a device to express the anxiety
of modernity. After the World war-I people got totally shattered and they
suffered from frustration, boredom, anxiety and loneliness. Yeats has used
different type of landscape to symbolize the spiritual and psychological states
of modern man.
Q.5 Write a critical analysis of the essay Politics and
English Language
Answer:
Q.6
Elaborate upon the various themes dealt by D.H. Lawrence in the Rainbow.
Answer:
Rage
Against the Machine
The
times are changing for extended members of the Brangwen clan. The canal cut
into their property to connect the collieries is a symbolic slashing of
tradition and convention. The days of bucolic individuality are about disappear
as the Industrial Age makes its way out of the cities and into the gentry. The
factory is an appropriate metaphor for what amounts to a wholesale change in a
society seeking to transform the individual into the collective. This machinery
of homogenization extends from the collieries to the
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