Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Jane Austen has used irony as a part of her narrative technique. Illustrate this from her novel Pride and Prejudice.
2. "Among the English novelists, Dickens is neither the most consummate artist, nor the finest psychologist, nor the most accomplished realist, nor the most seductive of tale writers; best he is probably the most national, the most typical, and the greatest of them all." How far do you agree with this evaluation of Dickens work?
3. To what extent do you think are Fate and Chance an integral part of the tragedy in Hardy's work The Return of the Native?
4. "He is a male Jane Austen, cruder and more expansive, but equally secure in his knowledge of what he can do, and with the same clear determination not to transgress into world which he does not understand". How far does Trollope fall true to this critical observation of his work?
5. Discuss Adam's education and growth to maturity through a process of suffering; as demonstrated in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede.
6. Of all the novelists that you have read, which one appeals to you the most and for what literary and artistic reasons.
7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following subjects:
(i) Novel in Victorian Times
(ii) Hardy's Tragic Vision
(iii) Jane Austen's Position as a Novelist in Modern Times
(iv) Dickens Position as the Greatest Literary Writer of His Times
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