BEGC-108 · June 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-108 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE : 18TH CENTURY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-108, June 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 10 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
(BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGC-108 : BRITISH LITERATURE : 18TH
CENTURY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This question paper has three Sections.
Attempt the questions as instructed in
each Section.
Section—A
Q1.Attempt any three short notes and any one explanation with reference to the context : 4×7.5=30
(a) Restoration Comedy [ 2 ] BEGC–108
(b) Elegy
(c) Neo-classicism
(d) Tabula-Rasa
(e) Role of Preface in ‘Robinson Crusoe’
(f) “Full many a gem of purest serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is bor n to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the deseret air.”
(g) “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishe s never learn’d to stray; Along the cool sequester’d vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.” [ 3 ]
Section—B
Note : Answer any three of the following
questions in about 200 words each.
3×10=30
Q2.Comment on the growth of the character of Friday in the story ‘Robinson Crusoe’.
Q3.Critically evaluate Laputa as an absolutist state.
Q4.What purpose does the epigraph serve in the play “The Way of the World” ?
Q5.Discuss form and structure of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”.
Q6.Critically evaluate the politic o-historical circumstances of 17th and 18th centur ies England.
Section—C
Note : Answer any two of the fol lowing
questions in about 400-500 words each.
2×20=40
Q7.Examine and comment on Crusoe’s daily struggles on the Island. [ 4 ]
Q8.Do you think Gulliver’s Travels is a travelogue ? Give a reasoned answer with examples from the text.
Q9.Critically comment on the class politics in the play “The Way of the World”.
Q10.What do you understand by the term Restoration Period ? Give the characteristics of the age.