LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 4812 – NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES FROM 1900

 

 

 

Date & Time: 18/04/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00 Dept. No.                                             Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION A

Answer any five of the following in about 200 words each (5×8= 40 Marks)

 

1. What impact does Pemberton’s suicide have on Scobie’s mind?
2. Critically analyse Demon Lover as an exploration of a fevered consciousness.
3. Comment on the character of Elliot Templeton.
4. Examine Animal Farm as a political allegory.
5. Elaborate on the conflict between Gabriel and his son Roy.
6. Atticus is a man who wants to look at things from others’ point of view. Discuss.

7. Consider Caddy as a mother figure in The Sound and the Fury.
8. Estimate Ms Eckhart as a music teacher in June Recital.

 

SECTION B

Answer the following in about 400 words each (3×20=60 marks)

 

9. Consider The Razor’s Edge as a critique of the follies and foibles of the leisured class.

    Or

   Write an essay on the theme of despair in The Heart of the Matter

 

10. The theme of The Sound and the Fury is the act and the apprehension of the act, between the

       event and the interpretation. Substantiate.

 Or

How does Harper Lee explore the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in To Kill a Mockingbird.?

 

 

11. Write an essay on the symbolism in The Lord of the Flies.

Or

The Old Man and the Sea is the exposition of basic human qualities of compassion, courage and endurance. Comment.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

EL 4812 – NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES FROM 1900

 

 

 

Date : 21-04-08                  Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

 

SECTION A

Answer any five of the following in about 200 words each (5×8= 40 Marks)

1. Critically examine aspects of satire in Animal Farm.
2. Comment on the role played by Wilson in the Heart of the Matter.
3. Discuss the significance of the letter in Demon Love.
4. What impact does the death of Sophie have on Larry in The Razor’s Edge?
5. Justify the title Go Tell It On The Mountain.
6. Discuss children’s reaction to adult attitudes in To Kill a Mockingbird.
7.  Estimate Jason Compson as a materialistic villain in The Sound and the Fury,
8. Critically analyse the social contract between father and son in Updike’s Son.

SECTION B

Answer the following in about 400 words each (3×20=60 marks)

9. Show how the contradictions between inner life and external conduct balance themselves out in The Heart Of The Matter.

or

What are the moral opposites in The Razor’s Edge? Examine the role of the narrator in highlighting them.

 

10. Critically analyse Mr Quentin’s concern for moral purity and his horror of stain in

The Sound and the Fury.

Or

In what ways are the character’s hopes for each other disappointed in John Updike’s

Son? How are they fulfilled?

 

11. Show how The Lord Of The Flies uses Freudian images to make a comment on human nature.

Or

Comment  on Nurse Ratched’s authoritarian attitude in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The    

Cuckoo’s Nest.

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 4812 – NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES FROM 1900

 

 

 

Date & Time: 21/04/2009 / 9:00 – 12:00     Dept. No.                                                       Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION A

Answer any five of the following in about 200 words each              (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)

 

1. Do you think the narrator overstates Larry’s idealism just to highlight Isabel’s and Elliot’s materialistic pursuits?

 

1. What does the blinding and death of Piggy in The Lord of the Flies signify?

 

1. Examine Go Tell It on the Mountain as a testament of faith.

 

1. What impact does the affair with Helen Rolt have on Scobie’s personal and professional life?

 

1. Show how memory as a technique does lend an excitement to the flight of Mrs Drover.
2.  Consider Boo Radley as the mockingbird.
3.  How does John Updike present father and son relationship in “Son”?
4.   Consider Jason as a hardcore materialist.

 

SECTION B

Answer the following in about 400 words each                                 (3 x 20 = 60 marks)

 

1. Comment on the violence in Go Tell It On The Mountain

Or

Discuss the role of the minor characters in The Heart of the Matter

1. Write an essay on the theme of betrayal in Animal Farm

                       or

“A man can be destroyed but never defeated.” How far is this true of Hemmingway’s hero Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea?

 

1. Discuss how effectively the stream of consciousness technique is used in The Sound and the Fury.

Or

How does Harper Lee present the conscience of a  town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice?

 

 

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