What do you think is the dominant quality of Hamlet’s character? Discuss with suitableexamples

Can The Alchemist be understood as a satire? Give suitable examples

Discuss the play Pygmalion as a romance? Elaborate

Discuss the art of characterisation in The Playboy of the Western World

Discuss Murder in the Cathedral as a poetic drama

Comment on the historical significance of Look Back in Anger

Discuss the Romantic and Modernist conceptions of character in the presentation of Jimmy as the play’s protagonist

Comment on Fielding’s narrative strategies in Tom Jones

Discuss the ways in which Pride and Prejudice foregrounds the social and economic realities of women’s lives in Jane Austen’s time

How does Dickens’s novel Great Expectations engage with the theme of upward social mobility and self-improvement

Discuss the ways in which forces of race and class shape characters and episodes in A Passage to India

Comment on Muriel Spark’s narrative technique in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Theories on the origin of language

The Articulatory System

Examine the salient features of the Sapir-Whorf hypotheses

Discuss with examples the main speech mechanism with reference to three systems: the Respiratory System, the Phonatory System and the Articulatory System

Discuss in detail the changes in English sounds with reference to changes in consonant sounds, the vowel system and spellings

What do you think is the role of English vis-à-vis the Indian languages in modern India

Why does Plato want the artists to be kept away from the ideal state? Discuss

Examine the purpose spontaneity, emotions and personality serve in Wordsworth’s theory of poetry

Discuss briefly, the ideas of Marx and Engels on class relations

Comment on Mary Wollstonecraft’s contributions to the rights of women

Discuss the material conditions and circumstances which made The American Enlightenment possible

Discuss the use of human as a tool of social criticism in Huckleberry Finn

Comment on the theme of Wallace Steven’s poem ‘The Emperor of Ice-cream’

Discuss on the appropriateness of the title Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye

Attempt a critical reading of A Clean Well Lighted Place

Message of Sri Aurobindo in ‘Life and Death’

Ruskin Bond’s Art of story Telling

Narrative techniques in Gajar Halwa

Central theme of poem ‘My Grandmother’s House by Kamala Das

Comment on the problems and challenges faced by the Post 1930s Novelists

Attempt a character sketch of the Astrologer. How does this story evoke sympathy/anger

Examine the treatment of time in ‘Clear Light of Day’

Trace the origin of Indian English Poetry

Discuss the relationship between literature and social commitment with reference to the texts in your course

A Grain of Wheat is a novel about Kenya’s struggle for freedom. Discuss

What political statement does Soyinka make in his play A Dance of the Forests

Discuss the manner in which Bapsi Sidhwa presents the partition in Ice-Candy Man

Examine A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel