Tuesday 23 December 2014

Past Paper Prose 2004 | M.A. English Part I (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

Attempt any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Bacon is more a man of the word than a philosopher in his essays. Do you agree? Illustrate your answer.
2. Political satire in the first two parts of Gulliver's Travels is interesting as well as instructive. Elaborate.
3. From your reading of Gulliver's Travels what impression have you formed of Swift's attitude towards mankind? Would you describe him as a misanthrope?
4. Do you think Seamus Heaney has succeeded in making out a good cause in favour of poetry in this post modern age of ours?
5. Do you think Bertrand Russell's proposal for the establishment of a world government is desirable, or even tenable?
6. In how many ways have ideas concerned with moral and politics, according to Bertrand Russell, helped mankind?
7. To how many classical English novelists does Edward Said refer in his introduction to cultural and imperialism; in what context and a what purpose.  

No comments:

Post a Comment