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BEGC-111: Women’s Writing Assignment July 2026 & January 2027
Sessions (Based on Blocks 1 – 4)
Programme: BA English (Honours)
Course Code: BEGC-111/2026-27
Max. Marks: 100 This assignment is split up into three sections: A, B and C. Attempt all the questions.
Section A
1. Explain with reference to the context any four of the following (in 100-150 words): 4×5=20
(a) The Grieved – are many – I am told –
There is the various Cause –
Death – is but one – and comes but once –
And only nails the eyes –
(b) …I am sinner,
I am saint. I am the beloved and the
Betrayed. I have no joys which are not yours, no
Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I.
(c) See how the letters move
in the eyes of the mind,
then leap over, back to the wall
from the page of Chaitanya Bhagavata
(d) A full plate, deliciously full.
Places to go, things to do, morning and evening.
Neatly ironed clothes. A nicely furnished home.
(e) My nights passed reciting holy verses for you.
If like Krishna you wish and change your guises,
If that Habba Khatoon decides and leaves you midway, what
if she too feels hate, she is not to be slayed.
Section B
2. How did Pandita Ramabai’s early life experiences shape her journey as a social reformer? Elaborate.
3. Critically evaluate Mary Wollstonecraft’s views on female education.
4. Analyse the transformation of the wallpaper throughout ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. How does the narrator’s changing perception of the patterns mirror her own mental state?
5. How does Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Legacy’ reflect her concerns regarding marriage and the “Hidden” lives of women in the early twentieth century? Discuss.
Section C
6. Why is it important to rewrite historical and mythological narratives from women’s perspectives? Critically discuss with reference to the works of Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Lakshmi Kannan, and Naseem Shafaie.
7. Critically examine the portrayal of women characters in Sunlight on a Broken Column.
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