Annamalai University 2008-2nd Year M.A English " 650 FEMINIST WRITING " ( - X ) ( ) 5400 - Question Paper
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12. (a) A Dolls House is an insightful study on
female psyche. - Enumerate.
(OR)
(b) Consider Top Girls as a study on man -woman relationship.
13. (a) How are love and death important to
Dimple ?
(OR)
(b) Duncan functions to reflect Marians passivity and powerlessness - Discuss.
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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2008
(ENGLISH)
(SECOND YEAR)
(PAPER - X)
650. FEMINIST WRITING
(Including Lateral Entry )
December ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks
SECTION - A (5 x 8 = 40)
Write short answer on any FIVE of the following.
ALL questions carry equal marks.
1. (a) Define feminism.
(b) Define a feminist.
2. (a) Why, according to Virginia Woolf, women
choose to write ?
(b) Who is the new woman, according to Goode ?
3. (a) Sum up Nina Bayams views on human
relationship.
(b) Attempt a critical analysis of Introduction by Kamala Das.
4. (a) What is the metaphor of Mirror ?
(b) Sketch the character of Torvald.
5. (a) Comment on the suitability of the title
A Dolls House.
(b) How does Hansberry present man - woman relationship ?
6. (a) Consider Marian as a victim to patriarchy.
(b) Discuss the role played by Clara in The Edible Woman.
7. (a) Comment on the relationship between
Savitha and her mother in The Dark Holds No Terror.
(b) Bring out the central idea of of God of Small Things.
8. (a) Attempt a critical analysis of the novel
Wife.
(b) Comment on Dimple - Amit Basu relationship.
SECTION - B (3 x 20 = 60)
Answer any THREE of the following.
ALL questions carry equal marks.
9. (a) Explain the psychoanalytic approach to
feminist writing.
(OR)
(b) What are the features of feminist criticism ?
10. (a) What, according to Virginia Woolf, are
the limitations faced by woman writers ?
(OR)
(b) What Showalter say in Towards a Feminist Poetics ?
11. (a) Discuss Gwendolyn Brooks as a feminist.
(OR)
(b) Analyse the feminism in the poem of Sylvia Plath.
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