LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FIFTH SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
EL 5500 - WORLD CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
Date : 29-10-10
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART – A
Answer the following in about 50 words each
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
1. Why is the iambic verse the best medium for drama?
2. What is dues ex machina?
3. State the Horatian doctrine of decorum.
4. How do Jocasta and Oedipus punish themselves for their inadvertent crimes?
5. Why does Tiresias hesitate to reveal the murderer’s identity?
6. Why is Oedipus named so?
7. Explain the prophesy to which Oedipus is condemned.
8. How does Homer describe the hurried retreat of Paris?
9. Which God favours Menelaus and why?
10. Give the name of any two great warriors on the Greek side.
PART – B
Answer any FOUR of the following in about 50 words each
(4 x 10 = 40 marks)
11. Who is more culpable, Orgon or Tartuff? Argue your stance.
12. Comment on the many stock characters in ‘The Twin Menaechmi’.
13. How does Tagore criticize religious elitism in ‘Gitanjali’?
14. Bring out the symbolic significance of the three beasts in Canto I.
15. Emma Bovary unlike Anna fully deserves her fate. Do you agree?
16. Contrast the characters of Anna and Dolly.
17. Examine the effective use of dramatic irony by Sophocles in his play.
18. Set forth the temperamental disparities between Menelaus and Paris.
PART – C
Answer any TWO of the following in about 300 words each
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
19. Discuss in detail the three salient features of Horace’s theory of poetry.
20. Attempt a critical study of upper class Russian society as portrayed by Tolstoy.
21. Analyse ‘Oedipus the King’ in the light of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy.
22. Present an account of the Greek heroes described by Helen to Priam.
23. Elaborate the theme of adultery as depicted in ‘Madame Bovary’.
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