M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Third Semester
English
Elective LITERATURE FOR SOCIAL
TRANSFORMATION
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 X 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. What does 'Prometheus' mean?
2. What does seeing "a world in a grain of sand" really
mean?
3. What does Tagore views as
4. What do the bankers encourage and discourage?
5. Why did Soapy want to get arrested in O'Henry's story
The Cop and the Anthem?
6. What do the guns symbolize in The Sniper?
7. How are the "eleventh hour labourers" paid?
8. What is Newman's opinion on Olympic Games?
9. Why is the Orchard being auctioned?
10. What does 'memory' mean for Raneusky in The cherry
Orchard?
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Part B X 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Discuss Blake's attitude towards society as a whole.
Or
What role does Herakles play in Prometheus
Unbound?
12. What is Tagore's vision for the future of India?
Or
According to Ogden Nash, what is the duty of a
bank?
13. Write a short note on Newman's views on
professional skills in University Education.
Or
What was wrong, according to Ruskin in the
orthodox political economy of his time? What ideas
did Ruskin substitute for those wrong ideas?
14. What was Jesse Owen's "real" Olympic prize?
Or
Sketch the character of the Sniper.
15. Discuss the role of music in The Cherry Orchard.
Or
Describe Ranevsky's experience in seeing the vision
of her mother in the Orchard.
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Part C X 10 30)
Answer any three of the following questions.
16. How does Prometheus achieve his success in the end?
17. Bring out the significance of the title Bankers are just
like anybody else, Except Richer.
18. Discuss Unto This Last as a criticism of contemporary
socio economic life.
19. Comment on the humour and irony contained in the story
The Cop and the Anthem.
20. Analyse the clash between the values of modernity and
the values of Old Russia as shown in The Cherry
Orchard.
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