BEGC-111 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

BEGC-111: Women’s Writing
Assignment July, 2024 & January, 2025 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Prog. BAEGH/2024/2025
Course Code: BEGC-111
Max. Marks: 100
Note: Answer any five questions. Question no. 1 is compulsory.
Section A
1 Explain the following giving reference to the context. (Any four) 5×4 =20
a) Even as you wash rice, fish, vegetables
even as you peel, cut, bake, stir and cook
the thieving letters on the wall take wings.
b) I wonder if it hurts to live–
And if They have to try–
And whether–could They choose between– It would not be–to die–
c) For all of them, whose feet devouring rough,
Miles, grow cracks on the heels, so that when they
Clambered up our porch, the noise was grating,
Strange.
d) wonder if it hurts to live –
And if They have to try –
And whether – could They choose between –
It would not be – to die –
e) For the akshara you scratched
on the walls so furtively,
the akshara you tried to match
with the sounds you heard
They’ve quickened now, with life.
Section B
2. What do you understand by ‘heroic code’? To what extent is it found in Chandrabati
Ramayana? 10
3. Define autobiography. Bring out Pandita Ramabai’s contribution to this genre. 10
4. How does Pandita Ramabai qualify as an educationist, social reformer and crusader for
women’s rights? 10
5. Comment on the view of Jiji regarding the authority a woman has in a household. Is it true
power? Why or why not? Comment on the symbolic value of the kitchen in the story. 10
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Section C
6. “The predominant issue and theme in Sunlight On A Broken Column emerges from the
situations that focus on a woman caught in the crisis of a transitional society.” Elaborate.20

7. Write a note on the poetic technique of Emily Dickinson with special reference to diction,
meter, imagery and metaphor.