IGNOU BEGC-108 December 2022 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following and attempt any two reference to the contexts. (Answer in about 150 words each) : 4 17 =30

(a) Enlightenment

(b) Old age and The Way of the World

(c) Age of Sensibility

(d) Symbols in The Way of the World

(e) Rise of the Novel (With reference to Def oe’s Robinson Crusoe) BEGC-108 2

(f) "Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."

(g) "No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God."

(h) "Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.

(i) "Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath, Can Honour’s voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death ?"

Q2.Does Christian morality have a role to play in Robinson Crusoe ? Discuss.

Q3.Comment on the depictio n of the Houyhnhnms as the embodiment of perfection and rationality in Gulliver’s Travels.

Q4.Discuss the term "Neoclassical Age".

Q5.Elaborate on how certain critical perspectives choose to derive philosophical and moral meanings implied by Gray in his ‘Elegy’.

Q6.Examine and comment on Crusoe’s daily struggles on the island.

Q7.Comment on Mrs. Fainall as an ‘unsettling reminder of the hypocritical moral parameters of Restoration Comedy’.

Q8.Analyse the main themes of Book III of Gulliver’s Travels.

Q9.Critically comment on Robinson Crusoe as a dichotomy between the bin aries of civilization and savagery.

Q10.Elaborate on the complexities of class identities as created by Gra y’s references to city and country discourse.