BEGC-133 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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ASSIGNMENT
BRITISH LITERATURE :BEGC-133
Programme: BAG/2025/2026
Course Code: BEGC 133

Answer all questions in this assignment.

Section A

I Explain the following passages with reference to the context.

1. “And Pity, like a naked new-born babe,

Striding the blast, or heaven’s Cherubins, hors’d

Upon the sightless couriers of the air,

Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,

That tears shall drown the wind – 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. “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.”

3. “Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking

mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when

you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your

enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal

terms.”

4. “… More things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats

That nourish a blind life within the brain,

If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friend?”

Section B

1. Write short notes on the following:
2. The role of the witches in Macbeth.
3. The significance of ‘fate’ or ‘chance’ in Hardy’s novels.
4. Bernard Shaw and the ‘discussion play’.
5. Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and the Arthurian legend.

III. Write short essays on the following:

1. Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man is considered to be an ‘anti-romantic comedy’. Do you agree with this assessment?
2. What are the medieval values highlighted in Tennyson’s poem “Morte d’Arthur”? How does the poet relate them to the Victorian age?

Section C

1. Explain how Hardy creates a picture of the people and landscape of rural England of the Victorian age, in Far from the Madding Crowd.