DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (Eng)/B.A. Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2018.
MODERN AND POST-MODERN LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. What message does the poet want to convey through the
poem, Prayer for My Daughter''?
2. What is the significance of the title of the poem 'Unknown
Citizen'?
3. Why does Nora resolutely leave home in A Doll's House?
4. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play.
5. Why did Clarissa reject Peter Walsh and Marry Richard
in Mrs. Dalloway?
6. Compare and contrast the characters of Boxer and Mollie.
7. Trace the character and role of Saleem Sinas in Rushdie's
Midnight's children.
8. How does world famous speeches are organized?
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Discuss how Seamus Heaney presents childhood in
of a Naturalist''.
10. What are the main themes in Ibren's A Doll's House?
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11. Waiting for Godot is a play in which ''Nothing happens
Discuss.
12. Write the importance of war in Mrs. Dalloway.
13. Animal Farm is a satire upon dictatorship Discuss.
14. Examine Rushdie's treatment of love in Midnight's
children.
15. Write an essay on one of the world famous great
speeches.
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