BEGC-110 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

BEGC-110
BRITISH LITERATURE: 19th CENTURY
Assignment for July 2024 and January 2025 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1-4)
Answer All Questions
Maximum Marks 100
Section A
Q.I Explain the following lines with reference to context:
4 x 5 = 20
(i) This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
(ii) A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
(iii) This said, he left them, and return’d no more.—
But rumours hung about the country-side,
That the lost Scholar long was seen to stray,
Seen by rare glimpses, pensive and tongue-tied,
In hat of antique shape, and cloak of grey,
The same the gypsies wore.
(iv) One may lead a horse to water,
Twenty cannot make him drink.
Though the goblins cuffed and caught her,
Coaxed and fought her,
Bullied and besought her,
Scratched her, pinched her black as ink,’
Kicked and knocked her,
Mauled and mocked her,
Lizzie uttered not a word.
Section B
Q. II Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:
4 x 5 =20
1. Attempt a character sketch of Lucie as seen in A Tale of Two Cities.
5
2. Write a short note on The Mayor of Casterbridge as a tragedy.
3. Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Ulysses.”
4. Give the central idea of the poem “Dover Beach.”
Section C
Q. III Answer the following questions in about 500 words each:
4 x 15 = 60
1. Write a detailed note on how Dickens has represented the French revolution in A Tale of Two Cities.
2. What role does Fate or Chance play in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge?
3. Write a critical analysis of the poem “My Last Duchess.”
4. Write a detailed commentary on the deeper connotation of the poem “Goblin Market.