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WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY

BA omours 'tgramme Ist Semesier lixamination, 2018

ENGHGECOIT/ENGGCOROIT-ENGLISn (GEMDSC)
THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY

Time Allotted: 2 Hours

Full Marks: 50

The figures in the mhargin indiacule Juil marAs

andihates should aANWEr In their wurds for
own as as
practcable

SECTION-
Answer any three ot the
tollowing questions in about 400 words cach: 10x3 300
What information does
Virginia Woolf acquire from the history books
the conditon ot wOmen" Why does she turn to history books to
regarding
tind about
Women Writers in Shakespeare N
Sister

Eunice De Souza's poem Marriages Made

are in lleaven is a blend of satire andd
pathos. Elucidate

Describe the
mages used by Langston tiughes in his poem tiariem.

Comment on the theme of hope, oppression and defiance with reterence to

Maya

Discuss Willred Owen s Dhuice et Decorum Est as an antu-War poem.

. What
eye-witness record does the author give of the riots in 1984? Answer with
reterence to 7he ihosts of Mrs Giandh.

7 What are the reasons for which Barthes has

criticized toys in his essay Toyvs"

8. Comment on the significance of the Sunday in Imtiaz Dharkar's

Lahore Rarhau poem At The

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SECTION-II

words cach
Arnswer any Jour o1 the tolowIng
questkOns in a b o t
00
with relerence to the my beliet is that thrs poet
context "Now who never
9
ENplain
Wrote ia word and was buried al the crossroads still lives

10 Locate and annolate.

behind nights of terror

"Leaving
and tear

I rise

of the line "NMen marched asieep

Explain the sigrniticance

by
1 Describe the New Delhi ncighbourhood of Delence Colony as
portray ed
Amilav ihosh in 7he Ghosts of Mrs Gandhi.

. All the toys onc conimonly sees are essentially a microcosm of the duit

world. -Explain.
4. Explain with relerence to the context:

These

are ways ot renembering