Dibrugarh University| B.A - (CBCS)| ENGLISH - (Honours) (C - 11)| Question Paper - (Held in Jan/ Feb - 2022) - 2021| 5th Semester
5 SEM
TDC ENGH (CBCS) C - 11
2021
(Held
in January/ February, 2022)
ENGLISH
(Honours)
(Core)
Paper:
C - 11
(Women's
Writing)
Full
Marks: 80
Pass
Marks: 32
The
figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT - I
1. Answer any one of the following: 15
(a) Discuss in the light of the poems,
I cannot live with you and I'm wife-
I've finished that Emily Dickinson's concept of earth and heaven with relation
to love and married life.
(b) Analyze Sylvia Path's usage of
holocaust imagery in the poem, Daddy, and Lady Lazarus.
(c) Examine Eunice de Souza's critique
of patriarchy though the poems, Advice to Women and Bequest.
2.
Answer briefly any one of the following: 5
(a) Does Dickinson's use of dashes,
unconventional capitalization, etc., have any relevance to the meaning of the
poems? Discuss with reference to the poems prescribed in your syllabus.
(b) I have done it again. 5
One year in every ten
I manage it-
What does Sylvia Plath mean when she
says that she has done it again and why does she do it once in every ten years?
(c) Explain the significance of the
title of Eunice de Souza's poem, Bequest.
UNIT - II
3.
Answer any one of the following: 15
(a) Discuss Alice Walker's use of
epistolary narrative and different forms of English in the novel, The Color
Purple.
(b) Discuss the theme of injustice
which touches all the main characters in the novel. The Color Purple.
(c) Discuss the concepts of race,
gender and marginality as portrayed in the novel, The Color Purple.
4.
Answer briefly any one of the following: 5
(a) Discuss the symbolic relevance of
quilt and quilting in the novel, The Color Purple.
(b) Give a character sketch of Sophia
Butler.
(c) Discuss the significance of Shug's
friend- ship with Celie.
UNIT - III
5.
Answer any one of the following: 15
(a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The
Yellow Wallpaper portrays the importance of creative freedom in a woman's life.
Discuss.
(b) Discuss how the excessively
protected life of women plays a role in teh subjection of women with reference
to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.
(c) Dopdi subverts the power game by
choosing to be naked. Discuss.
(d) Comment on the subaltern narrative
of Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi through the use of different voices in the story.
6.
Answer briefly any one of the following: 5
(a) Analyze the significance of the
wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.
(b) What is the role of John in the story,
The Yellow Wallpaper?
(c) Explain the significance of the
word 'counter' at the end of the story, Draupadi.
(d) Why does Mahasweta Devi say that Senanayake
is not somebody 'to be trifled with'?
UNIT - IV
7.
Answer any one of the following: 15
(a) Discuss with reference to Mary
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, how the writings in
circulation like that of Rousseau and Dr. Gregory contribute to the myth of
male superiority and female weakness.
(b) How did Ramabal Ranade disrupt the
rigid Brahmanical caste and patriarchal structures that regulated the lives of
women in India?
(c) Discuss Rassundari Devi's emotions
regarding, Amar Jiban.
8.
Answer briefly any one of the following: 5
(a) Which belief of Rousseau regarding
man does Wollstonecraft disagree with and why?
(b) What experience does Ramabal
Ranade describe as finding light in a room full of 'thick darkness'?
(c) Describe Rassundari Devi's imagery
of a sacrificial goat being led to sacrifice.
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