Alagappa University 2009 B.A English Modern and post modern literature - Question Paper
MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE
DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A.(English)/B.A.(English) (Additional degree) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2009.
MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. What is Yeats vision of the second coming?
2. What does Eliot convey through Journey of the Magi?
3. How does the citizen prove himself to be an ideal one in unknown citizen?
4. Describe the death of the Naturalist.
5. How is stream of consciousness correlated with the narrative technique of the novel?
6. What is the role of Pozzo and Lucky in Waiting for godot?
7. Contrast the characters of Napoleon and Snowball.
8. Write on the role of Nora in A Dolls House.
SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions.
9. The unknown citizen is a number and not a person Discuss.
10. Write on Ibsens contribution to English drama with special reference to A Dolls House.
11. An egalitarian society can only be a dream and not a reality. Justify the statement with special reference to Animal Farm.
12. Justify the title Midnights children.
13. Give the elements of an ideal speech with illustrations from texts you have studied.
14. Write on the theme of Sidewise in Time.
15. How can Waiting for Godot be considered as an absurd drama?
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