LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 5501 – CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

 

Date : 18-04-2011              Dept. No.                                                    Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART- A

 

1. Answer the following questions in about 30 words each.                        (10 X 2 = 20 marks)

 

1. Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women.
2. Whatever happens happens by His will.

Now so quickly to your shelters.

Bring out the irony in these lines.

3. Man’s knowledge of God is due to God himself. How does Barclay justify this view?
4. More than the visionary his all.

His stride is wilderness of freedom.

Explain the comparison.

5. The world at the present day stands in need of two kinds of things.

What according to Russell, are the two things the world requires at present?

6. He is the moral fool the man who, as we would say, is playing the fool.

Whom does Barclay refer to as a moral fool? Why?

7. And girls in slack remember Dad.

Bring out the tone of the poet.

8. We hurried towards London, shuffling gouts of steam.

Explain the context.

9. Envy had made them concentrate their attention upon competitors and forget altogether the aspect of their prosperity that depended upon customers.

Explain the moral of this parable.

10. One is always nearer by not keeping still.

Bring out the significance of the line.

 

 

 

 

PART – B

 

1. Answer any five of the following in 150 words each.                          (5 x 8 = 40 marks)

 

11. Bring out the pathos in the “Song of the Dying Gladiator”.
12. Comment on the theme of Ted Hughe’s ‘Thrushes’.
13. Sketch the character of Miss Jean Brodie.
14. What are Barclays views on the existence of God?
15. Attempt a critical appreciation of Peter Porter’s “Your Attention Please”.
16. Summaries John Benjeman’s “Christmas”.
17. What are Russell’s views on the ideas that have harmed mankind?
18. Bring out the symbolism in Iris Murdoc’s “The Hell”.

 

PART – C

 

• Answer the following in about 300 words each             (2 X 20 = 40 marks)

 

19. Make a study of the themes dealt with in the 20^th century poems prescribed.

 

(OR)

 

20. Consider Ted Hughes as a poet.

 

21. Consider Pinter’s play “The Caretaker” as representative absurd drama.

 

(OR)

 

22. Write an essay on the theme of “The Lord of the Flies”

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