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BDP Term End Examination c) Comment on the plot of Robinson Crusoe.

December-2018 & June-2019
How far is it true to describe it as an
Elective Course
episodic tale of adventure ?
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d) Do you consider She Stoops to Conquer as a
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( New Syllabus ) play with some serious social message ?
The Eighteenth Century : EEG-4 Give reasons for your answer.
( Enrolled from July, 2015 ) 2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36
Time : 4 Hours
a) Comment on the pictorial qualities in the
Full Marks : 100
poem The Seasons.
Weightage of Marks : 70%
b) Comment on the significance of the theme
Special credit will be given for precise and correct of rivalry in the play The Rivals.
answer. Marks will be deducted for spelling mistakes,
untidiness and illegible handwriting. The figures in the c) Preface to Shakespeare is an analytical
margin indicate full marks.
exposition of Shakespeare’s mind and art.
Discuss.
1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40 d) Consider Gulliver’s Travels as an allegory.
a) What were the factors leading to the Justify your answer with references to the
emergence of the novel in the 18th text.
Century ? Examine how the major genres e) Sketch the character of Sir Roger de
and tradition contributed to the shaping of Coverley after Addison in ‘Sir Roger at
the novel. Church’.
b) Discuss Pope’s The Rape of the Lock as a f) Bring out the significance of ‘The Epitaph’
satire on eighteenth century aristocratic in Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in Country
life. Churchyard’.

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3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24

a) Give a brief account of how Steele recollects

pleasures of his childhood.

b) What are the four classes of supernatural

beings ? How is each type differentiated
from the others in The Rape of The Lock ?

c) How does ’Wit’ become the defining

characteristic of the literature of the 18th
century ?

d) Briefly comment on the views expressed on

female education in the play The Rivals.

e) Whom do you consider to be a pioneering

figure of the Enlightenment in Britain ?
Why ?

f) Comment on Defoe’s treatment of ‘nature’

in Robinson Crusoe.

g) Comment on the character of

Mr. Handcastle.

h) Discuss in brief Fielding’s idea of the novel.

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