IGNOU BEGC-133 June 2022 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Explain any four of the following passages with reference to the context (around 150 words each) : 4×8=32

(i) “Yet do I fear thy Nature : It is too full of the milk of humane kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou would‟st be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.”

(ii) “Will all great Neptune‟s Ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand ? No : this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Making the green one, red.”

(iii) “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 Quixote at the mi lls. We nearly burst with laughter at him.”

(iv) “Thou hast betray‟d thy nature and thy name, Not rendering true answer, as bessm‟d The fealty, nor like a noble knight. For surea sign had follow‟d, either hand Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.”

(v) “But when I look‟d again, behold an arm, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandished him. Three times, and drew him under in the mere.”

Q2.Write short notes on any four of the following (around 100 words each) : 4×6=24

(i) The sleepwalking scene in Macbeth

(ii) The character Bluntschli in Arms and the Man

(iii) Tennyson as a representative Victorian poet

(iv) The allegorical significance of Tennyson‟s poem „Morte d‟ Arthur‟.

(v) The natural world as represented in Thomas Hardy‟s Far From the Madding Crowd. [ 4 ]

Q3.Write short essays on any two of the following (around 200 words each) : 2×12=24

(i) Discuss the significance of the title of Bernard Shaw‟s play Arms and the Man.

(ii) “Bathsheba Everdene is one of the best - drawn and strongest female characters in Hardy‟s novels.” Comment on this statement on the bas is of your reading of the novel Far from the Madding Crowd.

(iii) Briefly discuss the central themes of Tennyson‟s poem „The Idylls of the King‟.

Q4.Answer any one of the following (in around 300 words) :

(i) According to the critic Terry Eagleton, the real heroines of the play Macbeth, are the witches. Do you agree with this view ?

Q5.Write a note assessing the role of the witches in Macbeth. 20

(ii) “In Hardy‟s novels, chance plays a predominant role almost r educing the characters to mere puppets in the hands of Chance or Fate.” Discuss with reference to your reading of Far from the Madding Crowd.