LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012
EL 5500 – WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
Date : 25-04-2012 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 9:00 – 12:00
PART – A
Answer the following in about 50 words each: (10×2=20)
- What is media res?
- What is the function of the chorus according to Horace?
- Name the gods who favoured Paris and Menelaus? Why were they favoured?
- What was Oedipus’s crime and how did he punish himself?
- List Horace’s views on decorum.
- Specify the role of the chorus in “Oedipus Rex”.
- Why was Oedipus rejected by his parents after his birth?
- Who was Horace addressing the ‘Ars Poetica’ to and in what form was it written?
- What happened to Berthe after the death of her parents?
- How did Oedipus become the child of King Polybus of Corinth?
PART – B
Answer any Four of the following in about 200 words each: (4×10=40)
- Trace with suitable examples the themes in Tagore’s “Gitanjali”.
- Examine the character of Orogon in Moliere “Tartuffe”.
- Discuss the theme of love in Chekov’s “Seagull”.
- Analyse the comic elements in Plautus’s “The Twin Menaechmi”.
- Comment on Augustus’s views on God in “The Confessions” Book 1.
- Compare and contrast the characters of Meelaus and Paris.
- Sketch the character Rodolphe in “Madame Bovary”.
- Describe Dante’s visit to the gates of hell in “The Inferno”.
PART – C
Answer any TWO of the following in about 300 words each: (2×20=40)
- Discuss Horace’s views on characterization and dramatic plot in “Ars Poetica”.
- What are the dramatic techniques employed by Sophocles?
- Describe the major Greek heroes presented by Homer in Book 3 of “The Illiad”.
- Illustrate the important themes in Chekov’s “ The Seagull”.
- “Tolstoy doesn’t explicitly moralise in the book, he allows his themes to emerge
naturally from the “vast panorama of Russian life”. Discuss.
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