British Literature Post World War II — DU B. A. (Hons) English Previous Year Question Papers

examples from the text. 6. (a) Examine how family relationships in the play My Course) English Beautiful Laundrette reflect tensions between Semester : VI cultural expectations and individual desires. 7. (a) Critically evaluate how post 1945 British fiction of this question paper. any two novels in your course. 3. Candidates have to answer ALL the questions in Or PART A and ANY THREE questions in PART B. (b) Critically evaluate the shifting paradigms of identity 4. Questions in Part A carry 10 marks each and construction in Post World War II British questions in PART B carry 20 marks each. Literature. Answer with reference to any two texts in your course. (b) "The most unusual thing I ever stole? A snowman 1. (a) Dr. Grogon functions as a moral and intellectual Midnight. He looked magnificent; a tall, white mute centre of The French Lieutenant's Woman. Do Beneath the winter moon. I wanted him, a mate you agree? Give a reasoned answer. with a mind as cold as the slice of ice within my Or own brain". (b) Write a short note on Mr Freeman as a (i) Identify the poem and the poet. representative of Victorian capitalism and the rising middle class in The French Lieutenant's (i) Analyse how the poet uses imagery and Woman. symbolism to reveal the speaker's psychological state and sense of isolation. 2. (a) Identify and critically examine the statement: "I resolved to set a watch on myself like a jealous PART B father, trying to catch myself disappearing through a door just noticed in the wall. I knew I was being adulterous; that what I loved was not going on at 4. (a) Critically analyse how Ernestina is portrayed across three different endings in the novel, The home. I was giving myself the slip and walking French Lieutenant's Woman. through this world like a shadow". (b) Write a short note on the fruit imagery in Sexing (b) Critically analyse how Sam and Mary serve as the Cherry. foils to Charles and Ernestina and examine the way they challenge and subvert traditional 3. (a) Write a short note on the laundrette as a symbol nineteenth-century socio-economic hierarchies in of social and economic transformation. The French Lieutenant's Woman.