LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                                        EL 2801 – BRITISH LITERATURE

 

 

Date & Time : 19-04-2006/FORENOON     Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – I

 

1. Answer the following in 50 words each: (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

1. Alas, alas who is injured by my love?

How is this question more than a question?

 

2. Of study took he moost cure and moost heede.

Why does he do so?

 

3. The beauty shall no more be found.

What is the implication of this line?

 

4. And she was cleped madame Eglentyne

Ful weel she soong service dyvyne.

Comment on the narrative irony here.

 

5. The lower still I fall only supreme

In misery such gay ambition finds.

Why does this character find his fall “in misery”?

 

6. The misery of us that are born great!

We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us.

Bring out the significance of this realization.

 

7. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Why does the author feel so?

 

8. Reading maketh a full man, conference a

ready man and writing an exact man.

Explain the implicit meaning in these lines.

 

9. I say to you likewise there will be more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

Throw light on these lines.

 

10.She entreats you take ‘t not ill

The innocent shall be the more approved by it.

Why does the speaker say so?

 

 

1. Translate the following passage into modern English. (8 marks)

 

And bisihi gan for the soules preye

of hem that yat him wherewith to scoleye

of studie took he moost care and heede

Nought a word spark he moore than was neede

And that was seyed in forme and reverence

And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence

Sowrynge in moral vertu was his speche

And gladly worlde he leane and gladly teche.

 

PART – II

 

III. Attempt any four in about 200 words each choosing atleast ONE from

each section:                                                                            (4 x 8 = 32 marks)

SECTION – A

 

12. Critically analyze how Chaucer goes about presenting the portrait gallery

in the “General prologue”.

13. Argue for and against Satan using his first soliloquy in

Paradise Lost Book IV.

14. Compare and contrast Prothalamion and Epithalamion of Edmund

Spenser.

SECTION – B

 

15. How does Philip Sidney place poetry superior to philosophy and History?
16. Estimate the character of Bosola.
17. Give a critical appreciation of Bacon’s essay ‘of studies’.

 

PART – III

 

1. Answer any TWO in not more than 500 words each choosing one

question from each section.                                               (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

SECTION – A

 

18. Analyze the concept of love and metaphysical qualities in Donne and

Marvel.

19. Show how Chaucer’s Work appeals to contemporary times.

 

SECTION – B

 

20. Is the revenge motive strong enough to kill the Duchess in the

Duchess of Malfi?

 

21. Discuss the reasons for the fall of Dr. Faustus.

 

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