Past Papers Adam Bede TILL 2021 ANNUAL

 Past Papers Adam Bede  Punjab university TILL 2021

 Adam Bede

MA English Literature Part 1

Punjab University Past Papers

            

Supplementary 2020 and Annual 2021

1. Discuss in detail the female characters in Adam Bede and their functions.

2. Write a critical note on

"Love as a transformative force in Adam Bede"

Discuss George Eliot's representation of the rural elements in ADAM BEDE and how this contributes to the evocation of themes and characterization. (2020)

Explore how Eliot's characterization in ADAM BEDE is a probing into the human psyche, its motivations, suffering and description of the underlying connections between the conscious and the subconscious. (2019)

2019 Supplementary

1. Adam Bede is "a rewriting of Edenic myth, a rewrite of the pastoral and Eliot's criticism of realism as a fictional mode". Discuss.

2. Write critical note on

"Presentation of women in Adam Bede"

2018

Q: Discuss the significance of Love as a transformative force in Eliot's Adam bede

Q2:write critical note

1: Symbolism in Adam bede

2017

Q: Discuss in detail the dynamics and presentation of the Poyser family in Eliot's Adam Bede

Q2: write critical note

1: function of minor character in return of native

2: Religion in Adam bede

2017 supplementry

"An important focus of the final chapters of Eliot's Adam bede is
 the restoration of the poyser family to its former patriarchal stability".
 discuss
Write critical note
1: Appearance and Reality in Adam bede

2016 supplementry

Q: how far do you think that the ending of George Eliot's Adam Bede is effective?Evaluate critically

Write critical note on any of these:

1: jane Austen's social realism

2: George Eliot's morality

3: thomas hardy's view of nature

 2016

Q: "Of all George's Eliot's novels Adam Bede posseses the most clearly discernible pattern" what is your opinion

Q2: critical note on any of two:

1: thomas hardy's pessimism

2: Methodism of Adam Bede

3: resurrection in a tale of two cities

4: George Eliot's humor

YEAR 2015

 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:

 George Eliot's Morality

Describe George Eliot's art of characterization with special reference to Adam Bede.

 YEAR 2014

 Methodism in Adam Bede

Trace the development of Adam Bede's self-realization through a process of emotional turmoil within him.

 YEAR 2013

 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
George Eliot's Intimate Knowledge of Country Life and Interests

 Would it be pertinent to interpret George Eliot's Adam Bede as an attainment of a better understanding of life?

YEAR 2012

"Of all George Eliot's novels Adam Bede possesses the most clearly discernible pattern." Elaborate.

Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:

George Eliot's Vision

YEAR 2011

 How far do you think that the ending of George Eliot's Adam Bede is effective?

 YEAR 2010

George Eliot's Adam Bede is nothing but Adam's growth to maturity through a process of suffering". Substantiate.

 YEAR 2009

The novels are George Eliot are 'organic wholes' in as much as story, characters and the social environment are well integrated. Do you agree? Attempt with reference to Adam Bede.

Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:

George Eliot's Realism in Adam Bede

 YEAR 2008

Adam Bede reflects George Eliot's psychological insight into human character and motives. Discuss

7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics

(iii) George Eliot's Art of Novel Writing

YEAR 2007

 Hetty is profoundly and eternally selfish. Discuss

George Eliot's Art of Characterization

YEAR 2006

Being superior to Hetty both in years and in experience of the world, Arthur's responsibility is much greater for the suffering and tragedy of poor Hetty. Discuss.

Hetty lives simply by the coercive morality of the community and when this is broken, she is destroyed. Discuss.

7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics

(iv) George Eliot's Art of Narration

YEAR 2005

The character of Adam Bede is built up from the firm foundation of Native Sagacity and an indomitable sense of justice. Comment.

4. Unlike Hetty, Adam Bede is a man we are called upon to understand in depth; where she is static and bewildered, he is evolving and aware. 

Copare n contrast adam n hetty

 

YEAR 2004

 Trace the development of Adam Bede's self-realization through a process of emotional turmoil within him.

7. Write critical notes on any TWO of the following topics

iv) George Eliot's Narrative Technique

 

 

 

THERE SHOULD BE NO IMPOSSIBLE WORD IN OUR LIFE

Eustecia vye |return of the native

 Eusaticia's causes of emotionally alienation

When we enter in new life(in sasural) we can't accept it hurrily, we still live in our previous condition, we get mentally disorder, become frustrated , feel lonliness, meaningliss,

don't accept new environment, new relationships, live in dilemma

To adopt new environment we need love and affection

When we don't get love and care we want to escape from that place.

Eustacia want to be love to be madness, because she didn't get passionate love of parents, grandfather, lover, husband, society

She want to escape from Heath , actually she was escaping from life,

She was a spoiled child.

She was mentally disorder.

She was a unique character.

Author himself gave her a label of "Model Goddess"

She had the passion and instincts make a model goddess"

She can be survive if she accept her place,

Her peace was in her death, because she didn't accept her life.

We can't survive until we accept the situation.

Be focused n organized in life

Chaucer: Realism

 Chaucer: Realism 

 

Literature is the mirror of its age. Supreme literary artist is one who becomes a mouthpiece and provides a real picture of his age with its minute details. Chaucer is a perfect representative of his age. He is in true sense a social chronicler of England. His poetry reflects the 14th century not in fragment but as a complete whole.

Realism of Chaucer in “The Canterbury Tales” not gives us the impression that whatever has been described is real in the ordinary sense of the word. Realism is not reality; it is a collective term for the devices that give the effect of reality. 

Chaucer represented life in its nakedness.

“What he has given is a direct transpiration of daily life.”

Chaucer's principle object of writing poetry was to portray men and women truthfully without any exaggeration and to present an exact picture of average humanity. He painted life as he saw it, and he saw it with so observant eye that it seems that he was viewing all the events as well as characters through a kaleidoscope. Because of his this quality his epoch, “The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales” has become one of the vivid epoch of history. Moreover he is a man of the world so he mixes with all types of mankind and he observes the minute peculiarities of human nature. “The Canterbury Tales” is not only a long poetical piece but a social history of England. He exposes almost all the aspects of his age as well as of the people along with the detail of their appearance, sex profession, attire and conduct. 

Chaucer shed off the influence of the French and Italian models based on fantasies and dreams, upon which he had worked for so long and entered the abundance of his own real self. He worked like a true interpreter or chronicler, relating in a most realistic manner, the stories he had heard, without change of wording or tone.

The setting of “The Canterbury Tales” is highly realistic. A pilgrimage was one of the most common sights in the fourteenth century England. To relate the stories of these pilgrims, Chaucer gives the illusion, not of an imaginary world, but of real one. The more real the world of his setting is, the more his tales by contrast seems like tales, even though some to them deal with real everyday life. Unlike Boccaccio, who in his tales quickly slips back into frank artificiality, Chaucer held consistently to realism throughout “The Canterbury Tales”.

Gifted with an acute power of observation Chaucer sees things as they are, and he possesses the art of printing them as he sees them. He does not project the tint of his likes and dislikes, views and prejudices on what he paints.

“Chaucer sees what is and paints it as he sees it.”

In the portrayal of characters in “The Prologue” he gives us his minute and delicate records of details in dress, behaviour, which makes it a mime of observation as from the portrait of Prioress:

“She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle,

Ne wette hir fyngres in hir sauce depe,

Wel koude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe

That no drope no fille upon hir brest.”

In “The Canterbury Tales” Chaucer has blended laughter and tears, the comic and tragic as is found in life with such case and grace, that his story-telling seems like a veracious picture of real life. Though his pilgrimage is remote form our experience, yet we feel that this is what we might see if we could turn the clock back few centuries.

Chaucer as a realist presents before us in The Canterbury Tales the pulsating life of the common people. Chaucer’s pilgrims talk of “their purse, their love affairs or their private fends”. Their vision is confirmed to the occurrences within their parish. This is the typical vision of the common people which is realistically presented by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer’s depiction of the Shipman represents the salient features of the trade. The Merchant is another important figure who signifies the changed conditions of Chaucerian society.

Chaucer has introduced a number of artificial elements, but he does it so skillfully and artistically that the impression of realism he creates, makes us forget them. He is “devilishly” sly, and deceives us as he should with the most innocent air in the world.

In the words of Hazlitt:

“There is not artificial, pompous display, but a strict parsimony of the poet’s material like the rude simplicity of the age in which he lived.”

It would be quite justifiable to call Chaucer as a realist of high rank because his principle object has been to portray men and women trustfully without an acute power of observation. He sees things as they are and describes them as he really sees them