BEGC-110 · December 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-110 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE : 19TH CENTURY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-110, December 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 7
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
(CBCS) (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2025
BEGC-110 : BRITISH LITERATURE : 19TH
CENTURY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note :
(i) Attempt all the five questions.
(ii) Each question has internal choice.
(iii) All questions carry equal marks.
Q1.Explain with reference to the context any four of the following in about 150 words each : 4×5=20
(a) In the stormy east-wind straining, The pale yellow woods were warning, [ 2 ] BEGC–110 The broad stream in his banks complaining, Heavily the low key raining Over tower’d Camelot.
(b) For the journey is done and the summit attained, And the barriers fall, Though a battle’s to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward of it all.
(c) Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle ! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier ! [ 3 ] BEGC–110
(d) “For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.”
(e) She had a heart—how shall I say ? —too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate’ver She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
(f) Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes ! No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed, Nor let th y bawling fellows rack their throats, Nor the cropp’d herbage shoot another head. [ 4 ] BEGC–110 Note : Answer the following in about 500 words each.
Q2.Give a detailed account of Dickens’ treatment of revolutionaries in A Tale of Two Cities.
Q3.Analyse the character portayal of Sydney Carton and Charles Darney. Who according to you is the hero of the story ?
Q4.Do you agree that The Mayor of Casterbridge is a story of ‘a man of character ’ ? Give reasons for your answer.
Q5.Discuss the parallel betwee n The Mayor of Casterbridge and Greek tragedy. [ 5 ]
Q6.What is the central theme of the poem ‘Dover Beach’ ? Discuss the imageries used in the poem to depict the theme. 20 Attempt a critical analysis of the poem ‘Ulysses’.
Q7.Give a character sketch of the D uke in the poem ‘My Last Duchess’. 20 Attempt a critical analysis of the poem ‘The Windhover’ by Hopkins.