BEGC-133 · December 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-133 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-133, December 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 15
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (GENERAL) (CBCS)
(BAG)
Term-End Examination
December, 2025
BEGC-133 : BRITISH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer all questions.
I. Explain with reference to the context any
four of the following in around
150 words each : 4×8=32
Q1.“Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, Let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight ? [ 2 ]
Q2.“Out, out, brief candle ! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more : it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Q3.“He did it like an operatic tenor —a regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting a war-cry and charging like Don Qui xote at the wind mills. We nearly burst with laughter at him.” [ 3 ]
Q4.“Thou hast betray’d thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as beseen’– Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight : For surer sign had follow’d, either hand Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.”
Q5.“The old order changeth, Yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should Corrupt the world. Comfort thyself : What comfort is in me ?” II. Write short notes on any four of the following in around 100 words each : 4×6=24
Q6.The Banquet Scene in Macbeth. [ 4 ]
Q7.The character of Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd.
Q8.The themes of the novel Far from the Madding Crowd.
Q9.The theme of war in the play Arms and the Man.
Q10.Characteristics of Victorian poetry. III. Write short essays on any two of the following in around 200 words each : 2×12=24
Q11.Explain how Bernard Shaw’s play s discuss some of the important social issues of Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [ 5 ]
Q12.Explain the significance of Wessex in the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Q13.Discuss the allegorical significance of the poem of “Morte d’Arthur” by Tennyson. IV. Answer any one of the following questions in around 300 words each :
Q14.Discuss the dramatic significance of the soliloquy in Macbeth. Critically analyse any one soliloquy in the play.
Q15.Justify the title of the play Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw.