NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
BDP Assignment,
December-2019 & June-2020
Elective Course
ENGLISH ( New Syllabus ), (6th Paper),
The Victorians : EEG-6
SECTION - A
1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40
a) Write an essay on the women novelists of the Victorian period.Click Here
b) Comment on Browning’s handling of dramatic monologue, as found in ‘Porphyria’s
Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’.Click Here
c) How does Charles Dickens’ narrative technique impact the unfolding of the life of his
eponymous protagonist in David Copperfield ?Click Here
d) In what ways might Jane Eyre be considered a feminist novel ?Click Here
2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36
a) Analyse ‘Break, Break, Break’ as a poem with an elegiac note.Click Here
b) With reference to ‘Dover Beach’ and ‘To Marguerite : Continued’, show how Matthew
Arnold’s poetry reveals the anxiety and dilemma of the Victorian poetic mind.Click Here
c) What is the significance of the title of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far from the Madding
Crowd ?Click Here
d) What according to Thomas Carlyle are the essential qualities of a Poet-hero ?Click Here
e) What is the significance of the character of Bertha Mason in the plot of Jane Eyre ?Click Here
f) Write a critical analysis of Elizabeth Barret Browning’s poem ‘I Thought Once’.Click Here
SECTION - C
3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24
a) Write a short note on any one :
i) Position of women in Victorian England Click Here
ii) Charles Darwin.Click Here
b) Locate and annotate :
Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.Click Here
c) Elucidate upon the concluding image in ‘My Last Duchess’.Click Here
d) What is the role of Emily in David Copperfield ?Click Here
e) Who is Fanny Robin ? What is the significance of this character in the text ?Click Here
f) How is Helen Burns important to the plot of Jane Eyre ?Click Here
g) How does Emily Bronte represent divine omnipresence in ‘No Coward Soul is Mine’ ?Click Here
h) What is a dirge ? Why is Christina Rossetti’s poem so called ?Click Here
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