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POST-GRADUATE COURSE SECTION – B

Term End Examination — June, 2019 Answer any three of the following questions :
14 × 3 = 42
ENGLISH
Paper-VIII : Ancient and Modern European Classics 5. In the play by Euripides how is Medea portrayed
in Translation
– as heroic or tragic ? Discuss with reasons
Time : 4 Hours Full Marks : 100
Weightage of Marks : 80%
supporting your view.

Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the 6. In Seneca’s Thyestes do you think that Thyestes
answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect spelling, untidy
work and illegible handwriting. The weightage for each
is victimized by Atreus ? Give reasons for your
question has been indicated in the margin. answer.
SECTION – A
7. Critically comment on Ovid as a love poet from
Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40
your reading of poems in Amores. Give suitable
1. What constitutes the epic machinery in Virgil’s
examples.
Æneid ? How far is the action of the epic
influenced by the gods and goddesses ? 8. How does Dostoevsky treat the problem of ‘crime’

and ‘punishment’ in his novel ? What stand does

2. What is an allegory ? Explain in what sense
Dante’s Inferno can be termed an allegory. the novelist take ?

3. Analyse the character of the ‘doll’ in Ibsen’s play 9. Comment critically on the character of Emma

A Doll’s House. Does the ‘doll’ remain passive in Bovary in Flaubert's novel. Is she responsible for
the end of the play ? her own unhappiness ?

4. How does Thomas Mann show the conflict as well 10. With suitable examples comment on the use of
as synthesis of the Dionysian and Apollonian
irony by Baudelaire in the two poems that you
elements in his novella Death in Venice ? Use
have read.
illustrations from the text.

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SECTION – C
Write notes on any two of the following :
9 × 2 = 18

11. Give three instances which reflect stoic

philosophy from your reading of Thyestes.

12. What do you understand by the term ‘Epic

Theatre’ as used by Brecht ? Describe any two

features of such drama that you can identify in

Life of Galileo.

13. In the two poems by Baudelaire that you have

read, how does the poet use Shakespearean

characters ?

14. Who is Frieda ? What is her role in Kafka’s

novel ?

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