Major English BA first year
Exam. 2070
Time: 3hrs. Full Marks:- 100
Attempt ALL the questions.
Section "A"
1. Answer any three of the following questions:
a. Discuss the relationship between gender studies and feminism.
b. How does Marxism define human behaviour, the commodity
and the family? Explain.
c. Define and discuss structural linguistics and structural
anthropology.
d.Compare and contrast the Transactional Reader Response Theory and Subjective Reader Response Theory.
2"Answer any TWO
a. Discuss the relationship between Tom Buchanan and Myrtle as the relationship between two classes: bourgeois and proletariat.
b. Read the activities of the character Great Gatsby from psychoanalytic perspective.
c. Discuss activities and expressions of Daisy from the
3.perspective of New Criticism Interpret the following poem using one of the theories: Marxism, Structuralism, Deconstruction Theory.
[16] The Sick Rose
(William Blake)
O Rose thou art sick
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm.
Has found out thy bed
SYS Of Crimson Joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy?
Section "B"
4.Why does Simon De Beauvoir foreground persona' to make her case? How is the persona appropriate for her intended audience? Why doesn't she use anecdotes and interviews for the same? Explain.
Or
What major rhetorical devices does North Whitehead use to discuss the concept of Religion and science? Explain.
5. In Plato's ideal society, women would flourish based on their nature rather than on their sex. Given answer on the basis of "The Role of Women in Ideal Society."
Or
Susanne Langer accepts that language is essential for thinking and for knowing things. Do you think this assertion is true? Explain… ("Expressiveness")
6.Darwin describes a hierarchy of mental powers, ranging from "lower emotions" to the "higher" forms of reasoning. How does this particular hierarchy reflect Darwin's general theory of evaluation? Explain. ("Comparison of Man and The Powers of Man and the Lower Animals")
Or
Machiavelli claims that he wants to keep the common people contented. How would he accomplish this? Does this goal make him a humanitarian? Explain.
("The Qualities of a prince")
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