BEGC-133 · June 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-133 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
BRITISH LITERATURE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-133, June 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 15
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (GENERAL) (CBCS)
(BAG)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGC-133 : BRITISH LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer all questions.
I. Explain any four of the following passages
with reference to the context in around
150 words each : 4×8=32
Q1.“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’ other.” [ 2 ]
Q2.“Here’s the sm ell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabi a will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh !”
Q3.“You know, I’ve always gone on like that–I mean the noble attitude and the thrilling voice. I did it when I was a tiny child to my nurse. She believed in it. I do it before my parents. They believe in it.”
Q4.“Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue, Unsightly, traitor-hearted ! Woe is me ! Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widows of the power in his eyes That bow’d the will.” [ 3 ]
Q5.“For now I see the true old times are dead, When every morning brought a noble chance, And every chance brought out a noble knight. Such times have not been since the light that led. The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.” II. Write short notes on any four of the following in around 100 words each : 4×6=24
Q6.The significance of the sleepwalking scene in Macbeth
Q7.Thomas Hardy’s c lassification of his own novels
Q8.The character of Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd [ 4 ]
Q9.George Bernard Shaw and the ‘problem play’
Q10.Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King”. III. Write short essays on any two of the following in around 200 words each : 2×12=24
Q11.Explain how Nature plays a major role in the novel Far from the Madding Crowd.
Q12.Discuss the significance of the title of the play Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw.
Q13.Explain the symbols employed by Tennyson in “Morte d’ Arthur” and their significance in the structure of the poem. [ 5 ] BEGC–133 IV. Answer any one of the following in around 300 words each : 20 According to the critic Terry Eagleton, the witches are the real heroines of the play Macbeth. Do you agree with this view ?
Q14.What role do the witches play in Macbeth according to you ?
Q15.What are the medieval values highlighted in “Morte d’ Arthur” ? How does Tennyson relate them to the Victorian age ?