Most Important Questions MA English (Part-1) Paper (1): Classical Poetry 1. Chaucer s art of characterization 2.

Irony and satire in the prologue 3. Treatment of Ecclesiastical characters 4. Chaucer s style and narrative skill 5. The Prologue as a picture gallery 6. Critical Appraisals of characters: Knight, WIB, Pardoner, Summonor, Pars on, Friar and Prioress 7. Wyatt s Contribution/ Wyatt as poet or sonneteer 8. Surrey s Contribution/ Surrey as poet or sonneteer 9. Critical Appraisals: The Long Love that in my thought I harbor, Is it po ssible? Madam Withouten many words, Wyatt s Death, Prisoned in Windsor, Love that doth reign and lived in within my heart 10. Donne as a metaphysical poet 11. Donne as a love poet 12. Critical Appraisals of select poems: Death be not proud, The Sun Rising, A Valediction: forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow, Twicknam Garden 13. Milton s Grand Style 14. Paradise as a Renaissance Epic 15. Hero of Paradise Lost: Satan or Adam 16. Main Theme in PL: Justifying the ways of God 17. The Rape of the Lock as a Mock-Epic 18. The Role and Function of Machinery in ROL 19. Character of Belinda 20. ROL as a Social Satire. Paper (2): Classical Drama 21. Oedipus s Fate-Action/ Hamartia of Oedipus: hubris 22. Oedipus as a tragedy 23. Dramatic Irony in Oedipus Rex 24. Main Theme: Relationship between man and gods. 25. Dr. Faustus as an over-reacher/ Faustus as Icarus 26. The real sin of Doctor Faustus 27. Dr. Faustus as a tragic Hero 28. Renaissance Elements in Dr. Faustus 29. Othello as a tragic hero. 30. Othello as a (domestic) tragedy 31. Theme of Jealousy in Othello 32. Iago s motives and Othello s cause of destruction 33. Winter s Tale as a tragic-comedy 34. Theme of Jealousy in Winter s Tale 35. Pastoral elements in Winter s Tale. 36. Importance of Being Earnest: theme of love, money, marriage and social s tatus. 37. IBE: The title its significance and value 38. A trivial comedy for serious people/ IBE as comedy 39. Oscar Wilde s style: pun, wit, paradox & verbatism 40. IBE as a social satire Paper (3): Novel 41. Pride and Prejudice: Title and significance 42. Character of Elizabeth in P&P 43. Theme of love and marriage in P&P 44. Jane Austen s Irony 45. A Tale of Two Cities: Title and its value 46. The theme of resurrection & renunciation in ATC 47. Symbolism in A Tale of Two Cities 48. ATC is a social novel in political background 49. Sydney Carton and his sacrifice in ATC 50. Adam Bede and Psychological Realism

51. George Eliot s art of characterization 52. Hetty s suffering; its cause and redemption 53. Education and regeneration of Adam Bede 54. The Return of the Native as a tragedy 55. Egdon Heath as a character in TRN 56. Chance and Fate Hardy as a novelist 57. The Cause of Eustacia or Clym s tragedy in TRN Paper (4): Prose 58. Bacon as an essayist/ his style and contribution 59. Bacon as a moralist 60. Swift as a satirist 61. Swift as a misanthrope 62. Describe the first and the last voyage G-Travels. 63. Popularity of Gulliver s Travels 64. Seamus Heaney s justification, functions and redressing effects of poetry. 65. What is culture and what is imperialism and how does Edward Said relate the two? 66. Why does Edward Said refer to various novelists to prove his thesis of i mperialism? 67. Bertrand Russell as an essayist. Paper (5): American Literature 68. John Ashbery as a modern poet 69. Major themes in Ashbery and Richard Wilbur 70. Major Themes in Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath 71. Adrienne Rich as a poet 72. Critical Appraisals: Aunt Jennifer s Tigers, Diving into the Wreck, The Pa inter, Melodic Trains, Still Citizen Sparrow, After the Last Bulletins, You are! Ariel, Arrival of the Bee box and Final Notations 73. The Crucible: its title and significance 74. John Proctor as a tragic hero 75. Mass Hysteria and theme of evil in the Crucible 76. Relationship between individual & society in The Crucible/ Individual co mmitment in society 77. Character of Abigail Williams 78. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Main theme 79. Robert Jordon as a tragic hero 80. Justify Robert Jordon s sacrifice 81. Robert Jordon as a code hero 82. Hemingway s style Fictional technique 83. Symbolic Significance of the title Jazz 84. City as a character in Jazz 85. Major themes in Jazz 86. Mourning Becomes Electra as a tragedy.