BEGC-108 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

BEGC-108
BritishLiterature:18thCentury
July 2025 and January, 2026 Sessions
(Based on Blocks1 -4)

Answer all questions.

Section A

1. Write short notes on the following :
2. The Augustan Age

ii.Satire in 18th Century Literature

iii. The Rise of the Novel

1. Bildungsroman

Answer the following questions:

Section B

1.What role does Providence play in Robinson Crusoe’s journey of survival?

2. What is the significance of the voyage to Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels?
3. What is the significance of the proviso scene between Mirabell and Millamant in The Way of the World?
4. How does Gray portray the lives of common rural people in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?

5.Examine how The Way of the World reflects the features of Restoration comedy, particularly in its treatment of wit, marriage, and social manners.

Section C

Answer the following questions:

1. Critically analyse the theme of colonialism and individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. How does the novel reflect 18th-century British imperial and economic ideologies?
2. Discuss Gulliver’s Travels as a political and social satire. How does Swift use Gulliver’s experiences to critique 18th-century British society?