NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Assignment : June-2020
ENGLISH ( Paper-VIII : Ancient and Modern European Classics in Translation )
SECTION – A
Answer any two of the following questions : 20 × 2 = 40
1. What is the role of the chorus in Euripides' Medea ? Click Here
2. Justify the portrayal of Aeneas as the epic hero in Virgil's Æneid. Click Here
3. How effective is Thomas Mann's use of location in his novella Death in Venice ? Discuss. Click Here
4. Comment on the features of modernism that you can identify in the poems of Baudelaire that you have read. Click Here
SECTION – B
Answer any three of the following questions : 14 × 3 = 42
5. Would you call Thyestes a play that sensationalizes horror ? Give reasons and illustrations from the play. Click Here
6. Discuss Dante's theme and vision in Inferno. Click Here
7. What is the function of the minor characters in Ibsen's A Doll's House ? Answer with reference to any three characters.Click Here
8. Explain how Brecht presents the conflict of religion and science in Life of Galileo.Click Here
9. Critically consider Flaubert's use of realism in Madame Bovary. Click Here
SECTION – C
Write on any two of the following : 9 × 2 = 18
11. Three epic conventions used by Virgil in Æneid. Click Here
12. The character of the mistress in Ovid's Amones. Click Here
13. Use of any three symbols in Crime and Punishment. Click Here
14. Jason in Medea. Click Here
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