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ASSIGNMENT
BRITISH LITERATURE
BEGC-133
Programme: BAG/2024/2025
Course Code: BEGC 133
Max. Marks: 100
Answer all questions in this assignment.
SECTION A
I Explain the following passages with reference to the context.
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1. “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives,
A prosperous gentleman; and to be king stands not within the
prospect of belief,
No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence
You owe this strange intelligence? Or why
Upon this blasted heath you stop our way
With such prophetic greeting.”
2. “Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: –
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but
A dagger of the mind? A false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
3. “He did it like an operatic tenor—a regular handsome fellow, with
flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting a war-cry and
charging like Don Quixote at the windmills. We nearly burst with
laughter at him; but when the sergeant ran up as white as a sheet,
and told us they’d sent us the wrong cartridges, and that we
couldn’t fire a shot for the next ten minutes, we laughed at the other
side of mouths.”
4. “”Thou hast betray’d thy nature and thy name,
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Not rendering true answer, as beseem’d
Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight:
For surer sign had follow’d, either hand,
Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.
This is a shameful thing for men to lie.”
Section B
II. Write short notes on the following:
5×4=20
a. The three phases of Thomas Hardy’s writing.
b. The ‘Porter Scene’ in Macbeth.
c. Tennyson as a representative poet of Victorian England.
d. The influence of Ibsen on Bernard Shaw.
III. Write short essays on the following:
10×2=20
a. Justify the title of Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man.
b. Discuss the major themes of Tennyson’s poem “Morte
d’Arthur”.
Section C
IV Discuss Hardy’s approach to the natural world, as expressed in Far
Fom the Madding Crowd.
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