BEGC-110 · June 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-110 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE : 19TH CENTURY
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-110, June 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 3 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
BACHELOR IN ENGLISH HONOURS
(CBCS)
(BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGC-110 : BRITISH LITERATURE : 19TH
CENTURY
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This paper has three Sections—A, B and
C. All Sections are compulsory though
there is internal choice within the
Sections. Word limit and marks are given
in each question.
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Section—A
Q1.Explain any four of the following passages with reference to the context, giving brief critical comments (in about 150 words each) : 4×5=20
(a) Who is this ? and what is here ? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they cross’d themselves for fear, All the knights at Camelot :
(b) Oh ! then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent; For surely once, they feel, we were Parts of a single continent. [ 3 ] BEGC–110
(c) Ah, love, let us be true To one another ! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain :
(d) Lizzie met her at the gate Full of wise upbraidings : "Dear, you should not stay so late, Twilight is not good for maidens; Should not loiter in the glen In the haunts of goblin men. [ 4 ] BEGC–110
(e) Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain ’s rim : And straight was a path of gold for him, And the need of a world of men for me.
(f) It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dele Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Section—B
Q2.Answer any two of the following questions in 250 words each : 2×10=20
(a) Express your opinion about the ending of the novel A Tale of Two Cities. [ 5 ] BEGC–110
(b) Write a note on fatalism in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge.
(c) Write a critical appreciation of Hopkins ’ poem ‘The Windhover’.
(d) Give the c entral idea of Arnold’s poem ‘To Marguerite’.
Section—C
Q3.Attempt any three of the following questions in 500-600 words each : 3×20=60
(a) Write a detailed note on Dicken s’ representation of the French Revolution as depicted in A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) Discuss The Mayor of Casterbridge as a tragedy.
(c) Write a critical appreciation of Browning’s poem ‘My Last Duchess’. [ 6 ] BEGC–110
(d) Discuss the surface as well as the deeper meaning of the poem ‘Goblin Market’.
(e) Attempt a character sketch of Susan Henchard as depicted in The Mayor of Casterbridge.