M.A English Part 1

Paper 1. (Novel)

Topic 1:Charles Dikens

  1. Dikens was pained to discover the corruption of the society and wanted to reform it.
  2. He was a radical but he did not have a clear-cut programme of reform.
  3. His desire of reformation was based on his love of humanity.
  4. His distrust of legal system; criticism of education system and sympathy on the plight of the prisoners –––– form the subject of his novels.
  5. He believed that virtue is present in every class and section of the society,however, evil is dominant.
  6. He wanted to awake the public conscience against social evils through his novels.
  7. A variety of theme.
  8. Themes are skillfully coordinated and integrated with one another.
  9. Some of the themes are obvious while others are less obvious.
  10. The major theme of the novel is social injustice.
  11. The tendency toward violence and oppression in revolutionaries.
  12. The theme of Resurrection
  13. Theme of imprisonment.
  14. Theme of madness.
  15. Theme of self-sacrifice.
  16. A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel is certain ways.
  17. Dickens used different sources for the writing of this novel.
  18. There are a few limitations of a Tale of Two Cities as a historical novel.
  19. Historical reference are found in the novel.
  20. Dikens interweaved the of personal lives with the French Revolution.

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Paper 1. (Novel)

Topic 1:George Eliot

  1. Her love for Arthur and indifference to Adam is to fulfill her dreams.
  2. Her sufferings outside the sheltered world of Hayslope.
  3. Death of her child and her imprisonment.
  4. Comparison between Hetty and Dinah.
  5. George Eliot is a realistic writer and her stories are called criticism of life.
  6. Her stories are drawn from her own personal experiences of life.
  7. Even the events happened before her birth, have been realistically portrayed.
  8. Dinah and Adam are pen portrayals of Eliot’s aunt and father respectively.
  9. Her psychologically true presentation of characters.
  10. Her revelation of human nature through incidents.
  11. Objections against the unrealistic portrayal of Adam and Dinah’s characters.
  12. George Eliot’s psychological realism.
  13. Eliot’s dissection of the mind’s of her characters.
  14. Her psycho-analysis of Arthur’s mind.
  15. Her delineation of Hetty’s mental conflict.
  16. Hetty’s mental state during trial has been beautifully narrated by Eliot.
  17. Adam’s learning and transformation.
  18. Adam Bade dramatizes the moral conflict of Hetty and Arthur.
  19. Hetty’s ambitions to become a Squire’s wife become the cause of her tragedy.
  20. Hetty’s mental anguish.

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Paper 1. (Novel)

Topic 1:Jane Austen

  1. Love and marriage constitute the basic theme of all of her six novels.
  2. Jane Austen through different couples, presents a contrast between good and bad marriages.
  3. Analyses the causes for the success and failure of marriages.
  4. Need of self-consciousness and individual’s responsibility to society.
  5. Theme of distinguishing appearance from reality.
  6. Theme of pride and prejudice and the analyses of these passions.
  7. Theme of self-knowledge.
  8. Change of title from “First Impression” to “Pride and Prejudice.”
  9. Role of first impression in the novel.
  10. Darcy’s pride leads to Elizabeth’s prejudice.
  11. The novel is basically concerned with pride of Darcy and prejudice of Elizabeth, thus “Pride and Prejudice” is more suitable as a title than “First Impression.”
  12. Jane Austen follows 18th century moral vision in her novels.
  13. She abhorred direct preaching and desired the development of personality through stages.
  14. Jane Austen presented following moral lessons in Pride and Prejudice.
  15. Effect of bad upbringing on the family and on children.
  16. Reasons for the success and failure marriages
  17. Need of self-conciousness and balanced personality.
  18. Emphasizes on the organic unity between the individual and the society.
  19. She thinks that good manners lead to happy life.
  20. Jane Austen’s moral vision is acceptable even today as it was valid in 18th century.
  21. Jane Austen makes use of all types of irony-irony of situation, character, diction and dialogue.
  22. Ironic implication of the first sentence of the novel.
  23. Instances of irony of situation.
  24. Irony of character displayed through contrast between simplicity and intricacy.
  25. Irony of dialogue and diction.

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Topic 1:Thomas Hardy

  1. Hardy’s treatment of nature is realistic and not spiritualistic.
  2. Egdon Heath is presented as a character in the novel.
  3. Eustacia’s disliking of Heath and its life.
  4. Clym, reddleman and Thomasin’s liking of Egdon heath.
  5. Heath’s influence on the course of the events of the novel.
  6. Deaths of Mrs. Yeobright, Eustacia and Wildeve and the role of nature.
  7. Cause of hardy’s excessive use of chance and coincidence in his novels.
  8. Chance and coincidence is an embodiment of fate in Hardy’s novels.
  9. JohnyNunsuch’s chance meeting with reddleman and the latter’s involvement in Eustacia’s affair.
  10. Christian Cantle’s chance meeting with village folk and his losing of mrs.Yeobright’s money which is later won by reddleman and given to Thomasin.
  11. Clym’s blindness is also accidental and a stroke of bad-luck.
  12. Chance meeting of Eustacia and Wildeve.
  13. It is a coincidence that Mrs. Yeobright comes to meet Clym at the moment when wildeve is in the house and Eustacia fails to open the door.
  14. Death of Mrs. Yeobright is also an accident.
  15. It is again a chance that Wildeve receives a legacy and becomes rich.
  16. Thus chance and coincidence play an important role in Hardy’s novels and makes or unmakes the destiny of his characters.
  17. He is the hero of the novel.
  18. He loves Egdon heath, his native place.
  19. He is an educated and cultured man who wants to educate his people.
  20. His love for Eustacia is passionate and blind.