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IGNOU BEGC-108 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Section A
1. Write short notes on the following:
i. The Augustan Age
ii. Satire in 18th Century Literature
iii. The Rise of the Novel
iv. Bildungsroman
Section B
Answer the following questions:
1. What role does Providence play in Robinson Crusoe’s journey of survival?
2. What is the significance of the voyage to Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels?
3. What is the significance of the proviso scene between Mirabell and Millamant in The Way of the World?
4. How does Gray portray the lives of common rural people in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
5. Examine how The Way of the World reflects the features of Restoration comedy, particularly in its treatment of wit, marriage, and social manners.
Section C
Answer the following questions:
1. Critically analyse the theme of colonialism and individualism in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. How does the novel reflect 18th-century British imperial and economic ideologies?
2. Discuss Gulliver’s Travels as a political and social satire. How does Swift use Gulliver’s experiences to critique 18th-century British society?
IGNOU BEGC-108 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Section A
1. Write short notes on the following in about 200 words each:
(i) Restoration Comedy
(ii) Elegy
(iii) Pre-Romantic poetry
(iv) Neo-classicism
Section B
Answer the following in about 300 words each:
1. Discuss satire in the classical and neo-classical age.
2. How does the progression of the narrative in Robinson Crusoe try to balance the contradictory claims of a spiritual autobiography and a tale of adventure?
3. What purpose does the epigraph serve in the play The Way of the World?
4. Discuss form and structure of the the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. Analyze the major symbols, allegories and motifs in The Way of the World.
Section C
Answer the following questions in about 400 words each:
1. Examine the various thematic aspects of the Robinson Crusoe.
2. Critically summarize Book I and Book II of the Gulliver’s Travels.
