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IGNOU BEGC-110 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
Section A
Q.1 Explain the following lines with reference to context:
a. And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot
b. She thanked men—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling?
c. “Nay, hush, my sister:
I ate and ate my fill,
Yet my mouth waters still;
To-morrow night I will
Buy more;”
d. Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain
Oh might our marges meet again!
Section B
Q2 Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:
a. Write a short note on Henchard’s tragic hero-like presence in The Mayor of Casterbridge.
b. What is a dramatic monologue? Discuss with reference to the poems in your course.
c. Write a note on Dickens’ depiction of Madame Defarge as a revolutionary figure in A Tale of Two Cities.
d. Write a short note on the central idea of the poem “Pied Beauty.”
Section C
a. Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” suggests that love can provide solace amidst the isolation and suffering inherent in the human condition. Discuss.
b. Discuss the line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” in relation to the character and spirit of Ulysses.
c. “Break, Break, Break” expresses a deep sense of loss. Discuss.
d. Discuss how Dickens portrays the relationship between the aristocracy and the poor in A Tale of Two Cities.
IGNOU BEGC-110 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Section A
Q.I Explain the following lines with reference to context:
(i) This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,—
Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro’ soft degrees
Subdue them to the useful and the good.
(ii) A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
(iii) This said, he left them, and return’d no more.—
But rumours hung about the country-side,
That the lost Scholar long was seen to stray,
Seen by rare glimpses, pensive and tongue-tied,
In hat of antique shape, and cloak of grey,
The same the gypsies wore.
(iv) One may lead a horse to water,
Twenty cannot make him drink.
Though the goblins cuffed and caught her,
Coaxed and fought her,
Bullied and besought her,
Scratched her, pinched her black as ink,’
Kicked and knocked her,
Mauled and mocked her,
Lizzie uttered not a word.
Section B
Q. II Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:
1. Attempt a character sketch of Lucie as seen in A Tale of Two Cities.
2. Write a short note on The Mayor of Casterbridge as a tragedy.
3. Attempt a critical analysis of the poem “Ulysses.”
4. Give the central idea of the poem “Dover Beach.”
Section C
Q. III Answer the following questions in about 500 words each:
1. Write a detailed note on how Dickens has represented the French revolution in A Tale of Two Cities.
2. What role does Fate or Chance play in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge?
3. Write a critical analysis of the poem “My Last Duchess.”
4. Write a detailed commentary on the deeper connotation of the poem “Goblin Market.”
