LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
SECOND SEMESTER – April 2009
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EL 2804 - EUROPEAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Date & Time: 22/04/2009 / 1:00 - 4:00 Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION – A
Comment critically on the significance of the following lines / verses with
reference to the text and the context:
(04 x 10 = 40)
1.
a) No tragedy airs, please. [Locks the hall door.]
Here you shall stay and give me an explanation.
Do you understand what you have done? Answer me?
Do you understand what you have done?
OR
b) And if my little ones had no other mother, I am sure you would
—What nonsense I am talking! [Opens the box.] Go in to them.
Now I must—. You will see to-morrow how charming I shall look.
2.
a) His own adventures and the Trojan fate.
He tells it o'er and o'er; but still in vain,
For still she begs to hear it once again.
OR
b) The queen, whom sense of honor could not move,
No longer made a secret of her love,
But call'd it marriage, by that specious name
To veil the crime and sanctify the shame.
3
a)
b)
4.
a)
b)
“… pity is occasioned by undeserved misfortune, and fear by
that of one like ourselves;”
OR
“The construction of its stories should clearly be like that in a drama; they
should be based on a single action, one that is a complete whole in
itself….”
“You wrench the minds even of the just
To injustice and outrage.
You it is who have stirred up
This strife between men of one blood.”
OR
“You see how the trees that bend beside the storming winter floods save
even their twigs, while those that resist are torn up by their roots; and so too
the man who hauls tight the mainsheet of his sail and will not slacken it….”
SECTION – B
Answer any ONE of the following in this Part:
(1 x 20 = 20)
5. How does Ibsen dramatize and problematize fatherhood as part of a social debate in
his play A Doll's House?
6. Between Creon and Antigone, who is the protagonist in Sophocles’s play? Argue
your case and also justify your view with evidence from the text, Antigone.
SECTION – C
Attempt any TWO of the following in this Part:
(2 x 20 = 40)
7. Evaluate Ovid's Metamorphosis as a microcosm of human psychology.
8. Discuss the challenge Job poses to the conventional perception that the misfortune one
suffers is the natural fallout of his/her own sins.
9. How does The Life of Galileo highlight the conflict between dogmatism and scientific
evidence?
10. Examine critically the combined significance of the archetypal and the political in Maxim
Gorky’s Mother.
11. Write a personal appreciation of Satre’s novel, Nausea.
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