ENGLISH LITERATURE

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 11 Archives Comment Pope’s treatment of Belinda in the Rape of the Lock. “Tom Jones is the panorama of the follies, vices and hypocrisies of the world?” Discuss In Gulliver’s Travel does the satirist ‘fierce indignation’ verge on misanthropy? Justify your answer.

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 10 Archives Compare and contrast the nature of the fall projected in Book IV and Book IX of Paradise Lost. A (i) Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains (ii) Wither has fled the visionary gleam? Where is now the […]

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 9 Archives Write an essay on social realism in 18th century novel. Examine the factors behind the growth of political satire in the age of Dryden and Pope. ‘Both King Lear and The Tempest are concerned with mounting disillusionment about the nature of human power’. Discuss.

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 8 Archives Write short notes(150 words) on the following: The Court and the Country in English literature of the Renaissance. The term metaphysical conceit with illustrative references to Donne’s poetry. The elegiac tradition and Tennyson’s in The Memoriam.

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 7 Archives Consider Tom Jones as a comic epic in prose about a foundling.  Critically examine the role played by coincidence in Tess of the D’urbervilles Maggie Tulliver’s two relationships with Philip Wakem and Stephen Guest were both doomed to failure. Analyse the reason behind this.

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 6 Archives What relevance does The Doll’s House have to cotemporary life in the 21st century? Give your views. Gulliver’s Travels and Huckleberry Finn are known as children’s classics. What appeal do they hold for adult reader? Discuss. “The tale is that of the manhunt”. Do you […]

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 5 Archives What are the features that distinguish Jacobean tragedy from the Elizabethan? Discuss with examples. What do you understand by the term neoclassicism? What were the major preoccupations of the Victorian writers? Illustrate from the texts you have studied. Comment on the Caliban Prospero relationship in […]

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 4 Archives Write short notes (150 words) on the following : The role of the fool in King Lear The Metaphysical element in John Donne’s poetry The Rape of the Lock as a Satire on 18th century ‘polite society’ The theme and style of Michael as an […]

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 2 Archives 200 to 250 words Write an essay on individualism in Elizabethan and Jacobian drama. Critically comment on the roles played by the sea in The Tempest. Write an essay on the fusion of man and nature in The Memoriam.

ENGLISH LITERATURE- 2015: Daily Answer Writing Challenge – 1 Archives Write short notes(150 words each)  on the following: The Lear Cordelia relationship in King Lear Donne’s art of making poetic language a rare and rich experience Milton’s description of changes in Eve after she ate the forbidden fruit. Pope’s use of supernatural machinery in The […]