Comment on how Lamb has used humour in his essay “ A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig”, to make the essay entertaining. Give examples from the text wherever necessary.
See Answer →Write a detailed note on The Binding Vine as a Stream of Consciousness novel.
See Answer →The story ‘Misery’ by Chekhov deals with human insensitivity to other peoples’ grief. Do you agree? Give a reasoned answer.
See Answer →Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:
a) My brother and I carried our father into the hospital, stamping on the goat turds which were spread all over the floor. There was no doctor in the hospital. The Ward boy, after we bribed him ten rupees, said that a doctor might come in the evening. The doors to the hospital’s rooms were wide open. A few men had spread a newspaper on the ground and were sitting on it. One of them had an open wound on his leg. He invited us to sit with him. My brother and I lowered our father onto the newspaper sheets. Two little girls came and sat beside us; both had yellow eyes and skin. Jaundice it seemed. We kept adding newspapers to the ground and the line of diseased eyes, raw wounds and delirious mouths kept growing.
b) It was perfectly true that the house was made out of trees. It was a fair-sized but elderly shack, made out of poplar poles and chinked with mud. There was an upstairs, which was not so usual around here, with three bedrooms, one of which I was to share with Chris’s sister, Jeannie, who was slightly younger than I , a pallid-eyed girl who was either too shy to talk or who had nothing to say. I never discovered which, because I was so reticent with her myself, wanting to push her away, not to recognize her, and at the same time experiencing a shocked remorse at my own unacceptable feelings.
c) Theologians don’t much like it when we attempt to peel away the accretions of myth, history, dogma, and sacrament that cloud the origins of their chosen faith. When we seek common threads among the world’s spiritual doctrines, we may be chided for taking a cafeteria approach to religion: a little from this one, a little from that one, as if we were downloading only our favorite songs from the Internet in order to make up our own “Best of” CD It is true enough that some New Age belief systems do little more than dabble in devotion, backing off quickly whenever spiritual discipline becomes too incompatible with one’s lifestyle. One cannot really be a part-time Buddhist any more than a self-described Christian can purchase salvation with one hour a week in church. But the irrefutable truth is that at the heart of each ofthe great religious traditions are three small words: God is one.
See Answer →Write a detailed commentary on the deeper connotation of the poem “Goblin Market.”
See Answer →Write a critical analysis of the poem “My Last Duchess.”
See Answer →What role does Fate or Chance play in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge?
See Answer →Write a detailed note on how Dickens has represented the French revolution in A Tale of Two Cities
See Answer →Give the central idea of the poem “Dover Beach.”
See Answer →Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Ulysses.”
See Answer →Write a short note on The Mayor of Casterbridge as a tragedy.
See Answer →Attempt a character sketch of Lucie as seen in A Tale of Two Cities.
See Answer →Explain the following lines with reference to context:
(i) This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
(ii) A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
(iii) This said, he left them, and return'd no more.—
But rumours hung about the country-side,
That the lost Scholar long was seen to stray,
Seen by rare glimpses, pensive and tongue-tied,
In hat of antique shape, and cloak of grey,
The same the gypsies wore.
(iv) One may lead a horse to water,
Twenty cannot make him drink.
Though the goblins cuffed and caught her,
Coaxed and fought her,
Bullied and besought her,
Scratched her, pinched her black as ink,’
Kicked and knocked her,
Mauled and mocked her,
Lizzie uttered not a word.
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Discuss the theme of the poem ‘Enterprise’ by Nissim Ezekiel
See Answer →Why is it important for protagonist to learn swimming in the story ‘Swimming lessons’?
See Answer →Write a detailed note on the rise, development and the main characteristics of the short story
See Answer →The Binding Vine is a stream of consciousness novel. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answers
See Answer →Discuss the elements of satire, irony and humour in A Tiger for Malgudi, quoting examples from the text.
See Answer →Discuss both the surface and deeper meaning of ‘The Lost Child’.
See Answer →Critically analyze the poem ‘A River’.
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