B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
Sixth Semester
English Literature
Elective WOMEN'S WRITING IN ENGLISH
(CBCS 2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. To which literary group does Virgina Woolf belong?
2. Write about the feminist phase in feminist criticism.
3. How does God appear to Sarojini Naidu?
4. Does Sylvia Plath really scold her daddy in "Daddy"?
Give your reason.
5. What are the dreams of mama and Ruth.
6. How does the description of the younger's apartment
contribute to the mood of the play?
7. Who is the boyfriend of the narrator in "The Surfacing"?
8. Where does the narrator in "The Surfacing" come from?
9. Define patriarchy.
10. How does the novel, "Dark holds No Terror" begin with?
Sub. Code
4BENE3A
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WS3
Section B x 5 25)
Answer all questions.
11. Why did Virginia Woolf want to examine Milton's
Lycidas and Thackeray's Esmond?
Or
Why is the work "Towords a Feminist Poetics" by
Showalter very important in the history of feminist
criticism?
12. Write a paragraph on the philosophy behind
Sarojini Naidu's "The Soul's Prayer".
Or
How is the statue of Hitler described in "Daddy"?
Explain.
13. Comment on the dreams of youngers.
Or
Comment on Mama's spirit.
14. What can we see from the Atwood's "The
Surfacing's" discussion of or
Or
Discuss the narrator and her companions are
traveling with her in "The Surfacing ".
15. Describe the characters Sarita and Manohar in
"Dark holds No Terror".
Or
Discuss Deshpande as a Novelist.
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WS3
Section C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Discuss "A Room of One's own" as a pioneer of critical
text in Feminism.
17. Write a critical appreciation of Kamala Das "A hot Noon
in Malabar".
18. Examine the themes of "A Raisin in the Sun".
19. Narrate the narrator's search for her father and its end
in "surfacing" by Margaret Atwood.
20. Discuss the feminism in "The Dark Holds No Terror".
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