NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
BDP Assignment,
December-2019 & June-2020
Elective Course
ENGLISH ( New Syllabus ), (3rd Paper),
The Restoration : EEG-3
1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40
a) Trace the developments in seventeenth-century England, that began with Puritan
opposition to drama and led to the ban on playhouses.Click Here
b) How does Butler satirise the socio-political world of his time in Hudibras ?Click Here
c) Write an estimate of The Pilgrim’s Progress as a prose allegory.Click Here
d) Show how William Congreve’s The Way of the World exemplifies many key features of
the Restoration Comedy of Manners.Click Here
a) “The Restoration period shows a significant variety of developments in prose
forms ... .” Elucidate.Click Here
b) Examine how epic devices are reworked for the author’s own purposes in John
Dryden’s MacFlecknoe.Click Here
c) Compare the responses of two contemporaries, Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, to the same phenomenon : The Great Fire of London.Click Here
d) Bring out the significance of the title of The Pilgrim’s Progress.Click Here
e) What do you make of Dryden’s claim, in his preface to All for Love, that he “professed to imitate the divine Shakespeare ... “ ?Click Here
f) Enumerate and elaborate on some of the prominent features of Restoration Comedy.Click Here
3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24
a) Attempt a short note on any one kind of Literature of documentation during the
Restoration period.Click Here
b) Briefly discuss how the Royal Society contributed to the enrichment of Restoration
prose.Click Here
c) Explain, with reference to the context, any one :
i) Be caution’d then my Muse, and still retir’d ;
Nor be despised, aiming to be admir’d ;Click Here
ii) All human things are subject to decay,
And when Fate Summons, Monarchs must obey.Click Here
d) What are the points of similarity between Hudibras and Don Quixote ?Click Here
e) What was the impact of the Great Fire of London, in terms of loss to life and
property ?Click Here
f) What, according to Neander, accounts for his admiration of Jonson and his love of
Shakespeare ?Click Here
g) State three ways in which the post-Restoration play-goers reacted against the earlier repressive puritan measures.Click Here
h) What is the significance of the Prologue to The Way of the World ?Click Here
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