LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004
EL 2951/LE 854 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Date : 16.04.04 Max : 100 marks
Duration : 1 – 4 pm Hours : 3 hrs
- Answer any 5 not omitting any section. (8 x 5 = 40 marks)
SECTION – A
Explain the following quotations in detail with reference to the context.
- And while you suffer, none suffers more than I
You have your several griefs, each for himself;
But my heart bears the weight of my own and yours
And all my people’s sorrows.
- For I can tell you
No man possesses the secret of divination
And I have proof.
- If you too wish to make the climb,
A spirit worthier than I must take you;
- I saw the shade of the one who must have been
The coward who had made the great refusal.
SECTION – B
- For it is a fact of Nature that the Soul is raised by true sublimity, it gains a proud step upwards, it is filled with joy and exultation, as though itself had produced what it hears.
- Men are carried aside, as if under strong drink, into expressions of feeling which have nothing to do with the subject, but are personal to themselves and academic:
- Now these are five different sources, so to call them, of lofty style, which are the most productive;
- For beautiful words are, in a real and special sense, the light of thought.
- Answer any 4 not omitting any section. (4 x 15 = 60 marks)
SECTION – A
- Do you agree that Don Quixote ‘dissociates itself from its author’s intention and leads a life of its own’?
- Show how Dante employs symbolism in Inferno.
- Comment on the theme of sight and insight in Oedipus Rex.
SECTION – B
- “Longinus’ “on the Sublime” brings out the best of a work of art and an artist.” – Discuss.
- “Nora has neither understood her father’s love nor her husband’s concern’. – Elucidate
- How do Jung and Freud reveal the personality of an artist?