LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 28

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2006

                                   EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

Date & Time : 21-04-2006/9.00-12.00         Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

1. Answer any 5 not omitting any section                            ( 8 ´ 5 = 40 )

Section A

Explain the following quotations in detail with reference to the context.

1. Trust not the horse,

You people of Teucria’s land. Whatever it is,

I fear Dannans, even when bearers of gift.

2.   To the land of the West shalt thou come,

Where the Lydian Tiber

Flows gently by ploughlands rich for the

Men who hane tilled them

There happiness waits thee, a kingdom, a

Princess for bride.

1. We  Kyclopes

Care not a whistle

For your thundering Leus

Or all the gods in bliss;

1. Out of the cave

The mammoth Polyphemos

Roared  in answer:

Section B

1. Consider ‘ Nausea’ as a philosophical novel.
2. Antigone is both Creon’s victim as well as his nemesis-Do you agree?
3. Aristotle’s Poetics laid the foundation for the systematic study of aesthetics. Discuss.
4. Franz Kafka is a universal spokesman for frightened and perplexed twentieth century man. Comment.

1. Answer any 4 not omitting any section ( 4 ´ 15 =60 )

Section A

9. ‘Don Quixote is mad when possessed by his idée fixe’ of knight

errantry; but sane and kind and moderate when not’ – prove.

10. Comment on the protest element in miserables advocating structural

reforms.

1.  Do you feel that Oedipus is a puppet of fate and cannot affect the

future that the oracle has predicted for him or is it that his ‘flow ‘sets

these events into action?

Section B

1. Discuss existential philosophy exemplified by Kafka in his

‘Metamorphosis’

1. Comment on Brechit’s formula of dramatic theatre and epic form.
2. Discuss Gorky’s ‘Mother’as the first novel in Russian literature to depict the travails of the working class.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

LO 44

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

 

Date & Time: 19/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00            Dept. No.                                                          Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

1. Explain any FIVE with reference to the context:                       5 x 3 = 15

 

1. The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven.

They were not born today nor yesterday;

 

2. By the law of conscience I was led

To honor thee, dear brother, and was judged

By Creon guilty of a heinous crime

 

3. Fair queen, oppose not what the gods command

Forc’d by my fate, I leave your happy land.”

 

4. But he seemed rather a shaggy mountain reared in solitude

 

5. Now kyklops, wheezing, fumbled to wrench away

The great door stone and squatted in the breach

 

6. So we moved out,

Sad in the vast offing,

Having our precious lives,

But not our friends

 

1. Answer any FIVE in about 150 words. 5 x 5 = 25

 

1. What dramatic purpose does the character of Ismene serve?

 

1. Based on your reading of Don Quixote reconstruct the ceremony surrounding the knighting.
2. Comment on the episode where Valjean repays the Bishop of Digne’s hospitality by stealing his silverware.
3. Analyse the depiction of Dido’s passion for Aeneas.

11. What according to Aristotle is the essence of a tragedy?
12. How is Gregor Samsa estranged from conforming to human standards?
13. Comment on the figures of speech used by Homer in Odyssey Book. IX.
14. What is the main theme of the Book of Job?

III. Attempt an essay of about 250 words on any THREE of the following.                3 x 20 = 60

15. Is Creon a tragic figure who deserves the readers’ sympathy or one who gets just what he deserves?

 

1. Is there more to Don Quixote than being just a typical Renaissance satire of the absurd chivalric traditions of the Middle Ages?

 

1. Do you agree with Hugo that many of the problems facing society are created by the very laws and traditions of that society?

18. How does Kafka’s Metamorphosis explore the futility and complexity of human existence?
19. Critically analyze the Book of Job as an exquisite dramatic poem.
20. How does Sartre depict the superfluity of the world in his ‘Nausea’?

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

DM 29

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

 

Date : 22/04/2008            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

1. Answer any EIGHT of the following choosing FOUR from each section: (8×5=40)

 

SECTION – A

Comment on the significance of the following lines:

 

1. Helmer: My dear Nora, I can forgive the anxiety you are in,
   although really it is an insult to me. It is, indeed. Isn’t
   it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving
   quill-driver’s vengeance? But I forgive you nevertheless,
   because it is such eloquent witness to your great love for me.

 

2. Mrs. Linde: Nils, how would it be if we two shipwrecked people
   could join forces?

Krogstad: What are you saying?

Mrs. Linde. Two on the same piece of wreckage would stand a
better chance than each on their own.

3. Nora: Both you and I would have to be so changed that–. Oh, Torvald,
   I don’t believe any longer in wonderful things happening.

Helmer: But I will believe in it. Tell me! So changed that–?

Nora: That our life together would be a real wedlock. Goodbye.
(She goes out through the hall.)

4. 4. Had the false Trojan never touch’d my shore!”
   Then kiss’d the couch; and, “Must I die,” she said,
   “And unreveng’d? ‘T is doubly to be dead!
   Yet ev’n this death with pleasure I receive:
   On any terms, ‘t is better than to live.
   These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view;
   These boding omens his base flight pursue!”
5. The pious prince was seiz’d with sudden fear;
   Mute was his tongue, and upright stood his hair.
   Revolving in his mind the stern command,
   He longs to fly, and loathes the charming land.
   What should he say? or how should he begin?

 

SECTION B

6. “He’s lying there, absolutely dead as a doornail.” Who does the charwoman refer to? Explain the imagery and its significance to the character intended.
7. “For ’tis the hope of parents they may rear A brood of sons submissive, keen to avenge Their father’s wrongs, and count his friends their own”. Explain the implications of the lines and the irony of the speaker.
8. “Two corpses, one in death. His marriage rites Are consummated in the halls of Death: A witness that of ills whate’er befall Mortals’ unwisdom is the worst of all”.

Who does Eurydice refer to in the lines and explain the relevance of the universal truth highlighted in the same.

9. Explain the importance of the term of ‘Recognition’ in Poetics.
10. Explain the following terms according to Aristotle: 1) Medium of Imitation, 2) Object of Imitation and 3) Mode of Imitation.
11. Attempt an essay on any FOUR of the following questions choosing TWO from each section: (4×15=60)

SECTION A

11. Is the play A Doll’s House to be viewed as a study of female hysteria or as a metaphor for individual freedom?

OR

Analyze the portrayal of Odysseus’ heroic trait Métis (cunning intelligence) and his most evident flaw        Hubris (arrogance/pride) in Homer’s Odyssey Book IX.

12. Ovid’s metamorphosis provides a mythical key to extreme forms of behaviour’. Elucidate.
13. Examine Gorky as a fervent advocate of Russia’ social, political and cultural transformation as reflected in his classic Mother.
14. Discuss the key concepts of existentialism as reflected in Sartre’s Nausea.

SECTION B

15. Discuss the following aspects: Romance, Chivalry, Delusion, Enchantment, and Imagination with reference to the novel, Don Quixote of La Mancha.
16. The Book of Job from the Old Testament of the bible and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka are allegorical delineations of the existence of man in the profane world irrespective of time. Discuss.
17. Discuss the conflict and the contrast in the characters, Antigone and Creon with references from Antigone.
18. Attempt an analysis on the characters and themes of any one of the works of art prescribed under the sections prose, play and fiction.

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

 

Date & Time: 22/04/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00     Dept. No.                                                            Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION – A

 

      Comment critically on the significance of the following lines / verses with

 reference to the text and the context:                                                               (04 x 10 = 40)

 

1. a) No tragedy airs, please. [Locks the hall door.]

Here you shall stay and give me an explanation.

Do you understand what you have done? Answer me?

Do you understand what you have done?

OR

1. b) And if my little ones had no other mother, I am sure you would

—What nonsense I am talking! [Opens the box.] Go in to them.

Now I must—. You will see to-morrow how charming I shall look.

 

2. a)   His own adventures and the Trojan fate.
   He tells it o’er and o’er; but still in vain,
   For still she begs to hear it once again.

OR

1. b) The queen, whom sense of honor could not move,
   No longer made a secret of her love,
   But call’d it marriage, by that specious name
   To veil the crime and sanctify the shame.

 

• a) “… pity is occasioned by undeserved misfortune, and fear by

that of one like ourselves;”

OR

1. “The construction of its stories should clearly be like that in a drama; they should be based on a single action, one that is a complete whole in itself….”

 

4. a)         “You wrench the minds even of the just

To injustice and outrage.

You it is who have stirred up

This strife between men of one blood.”

OR

1. “You see how the trees that bend beside the storming winter floods save

even their twigs, while those that resist are torn up by their roots; and so too

the man who hauls tight the mainsheet of his sail and will not slacken it….”

 

SECTION – B

 

 Answer any ONE of the following in this Part:                                  (1 x 20 = 20)

 

5. How does Ibsen dramatize and problematize fatherhood as part of a social debate in his play A Doll’s House?

 

6. Between Creon and Antigone, who is the protagonist in Sophocles’s play? Argue your case and also justify your view with evidence from the text, Antigone.

 

SECTION – C

 

Attempt any TWO of the following in this Part:                                              (2 x 20 = 40)

 

1. Evaluate Ovid’s Metamorphosis as a microcosm of human psychology.

 

1. Discuss the challenge Job poses to the conventional perception that the misfortune one suffers is the natural fallout of his/her own sins.

 

1. How does The Life of Galileo highlight the conflict between dogmatism and scientific evidence?

 

1. Examine critically the combined significance of the archetypal and the political in Maxim Gorky’s Mother.

 

1. Write a personal appreciation of Satre’s novel, Nausea.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2011

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

Date : 05-04-2011             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

SECTION A

 

1. Comment on the significance of any SIX of the following lines 6×5=30 marks                              

 

1. Empty. She is gone. [A hope flashes across his mind.] The most wonderful thing

of all—?  [The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.]

 

2. We have been married now eight years. Does it not occur to you that this is the

first time we two, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?

 

3. All else of nature’s common gift partake:
   Unhappy Dido was alone awake.
   Nor sleep nor ease the furious queen can find;

 

4. Look, Anna! look! the Trojans crowd to sea;
   They spread their canvas, and their anchors weigh.
   The shouting crew their ships with garlands bind,
   Invoke the sea gods, and invite the wind.

 

5. and now this other Paris, with his train
   of conquer’d cowards, must in Afric reign!

 

6. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but

conform to these principles.

 

7. A man , though wise, should never be ashamed

of learning more, and must unbend his mind

Have you not seen the trees besides the torrent,

the ones that bend them saving every leaf,

while the resistant perish root and branch?

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. If that’s your saying, I shall hate you first,

and next the deed will hate you in all justice

But let me and my own ill-counselling

suffer this terror. I shall suffer nothing

as great as dying with a lack of grace.

 

9.The objects of imitation are men in action and these men must be either of a

higher or a lower type.

 

1. Answer the following in about 200 words : 2×15=30 marks                    
2. Attempt an appreciation of Nora’s set-rattling exit in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House as assertion of “the right of an individual to reject society’s infringement on her freedom to perform a personal obligation.”

                                                     OR  

What are the political, social, emotional and personal insecurities faced by Aeneas’ desertion which lead Dido to the funeral pyre?

 

11. Apply the grammar of Aristotle’s Poetics to Antigone and analyze it.

OR

Explain the ways in which  characters in a play can be recognized.

                                                              

III. Attempt an essay on any TWO of the following in about 500 words each: 2×20=40 marks

 

12. In what ways do you find Ovid’s ‘Metamorphosis’ as a ‘microcosm of human psychology’?
13. Attempt a study of the harmonious blend of the journey and the contest motifs in Aristophanes’ Frogs.

 

14. How successful is the text The ‘Life of Galileo’ in bringing forth the conflict between Scientific evidence and dogmatism?

 

15. Attempt an appreciation of Satre’s central theme as analysed in ‘Nausea’.

 

16. The picaresque hero and his foolishly impractical pursuit of ideals- Attempt a study of Don Quixote.

 

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 2804 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

 

 

Date : 19-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

                                                           

SECTION A

 

I Comment on the Significance of the following lines:                                                               8×5=40

 

1. There’s a black cross over the name. Look at it. What an unpleasant idea ! It looks just as if he were announcing his own death.
2. To forsake your home, your husband, and your children 1 And you don’t consider what the world will say !
3. Base and ungrateful! could you hope to fly,
   And undiscover’d scape a lover’s eye
4. These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view;
   These boding omens his base flight pursue!”
5. Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
6. .. there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
7. .. one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is  displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed. For a thing whose         presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an            organic part of the whole.
8. The poet should speak as little as possible in his

own person, for it is not this that makes him an imitator.

 

 

 

SECTION B

 

II Attempt any THREE of the following in about 200 words each :                                      3×10 =30

           

9. 9. Examine the dynamic aspects of the moves made by Odysseus in his attempts to outwit Polyphemus as seen in Homer’s Odyssey Book IX.
10. Discuss the significance of the title of Aristophanes’ The Frogs .
11. “The poem is the most comprehensive, creative mythological work that has come down to us from antiquity” -Attempt a brief appreciation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis in the light of this statement.
12. Harry believes two opposing natures battle over possession of him, a man and a wolf, high and low, spirit and animal – Discuss.
13. “When will we have mothers who rejoice at sending their children to death? ” Explain the significance of these words of Maxim Gorky in his Classic, Mother.

                                                           

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION C

 

III  Attempt any Two of the following in about 500 words each:                                            2×15=30

 

14. Analyse Ibsen’s  A Doll’s House  as a Problem Play in its successful passing of a death-          sentence on accepted social norms.
15. Discuss the social, political, emotional and psychological insecurities that Dido is left with following Aeneas’ desertion.
16. Comment on the Literary genre and style of the Book of Job

            17. Catharsis is to the psychology of the spectator and it is  to incidents rather than to

              emotions – Justify.

 

 

 

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