LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008
EL 4812 - NOVEL AND SHORT STORIES FROM 1900
Date : 21-04-08
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
DM 40
Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION A
Answer any five of the following in about 200 words each (5x8= 40 Marks)
1. Critically examine aspects of satire in Animal Farm.
2. Comment on the role played by Wilson in the Heart of the Matter.
3. Discuss the significance of the letter in Demon Love.
4. What impact does the death of Sophie have on Larry in The Razor’s Edge?
5. Justify the title Go Tell It On The Mountain.
6. Discuss children’s reaction to adult attitudes in To Kill a Mockingbird.
7.
Estimate Jason Compson as a materialistic villain in The Sound and the Fury,
8. Critically analyse the social contract between father and son in Updike’s Son.
SECTION B
Answer the following in about 400 words each (3x20=60 marks)
9. Show how the contradictions between inner life and external conduct balance themselves out in
The Heart Of The Matter.
or
What are the moral opposites in The Razor’s Edge? Examine the role of the narrator in
highlighting them.
10. Critically analyse Mr Quentin’s concern for moral purity and his horror of stain in
The Sound and the Fury.
Or
In what ways are the character’s hopes for each other disappointed in John Updike’s
Son? How are they fulfilled?
11. Show how The Lord Of The Flies uses Freudian images to make a comment on human nature.
Or
Comment on Nurse Ratched’s authoritarian attitude in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The
Cuckoo’s Nest.
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