European Literature Upto The Nineteenth Century Question Paper

European Literature Upto The Nineteenth Century

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2007/2008
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS
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DA TE:
Monday 26th November, 2007
TIME: 8.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any THREE questions. Avoid duplication of materials.
Ql.
Either:
(a)
Choose any TWO of the following characters and discuss their plot and
thematic significance in the drama of Shakespeare's Macbeth:
(i)
The witches
(ii)
Lady Macbeth
(iii)
Banquo
(iv)
Macduff.
Or
(b)
Discuss Shakespeare's Macbeth as a conflict of Good and Evil in the
Elizabethan world.
Q2.
Either
(a)
Swifts main aim in Gulliver's Travels is to exhort man to be reasonable.
What do you consider to be unreasonable in the Kingdom of Lilliput?
Or
(b)
"In his presentation of women in Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift shows
his gender insensitivity and open bias against women". Do you agree?
Support your argument form at least two of the voyages .
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Q3.
Discuss Old Goriot as Balzak's indictment of post-French Revolution Parisian
society.
Q4.
"To be true in any deep sense, Dickens believed, public history had to be private
history as well and that the Revolution in the end was the occasion for acts of
personal redemption ..... "
Discuss the truth of this statement with reference to any two characters in Charles
Dickens' A tale of Two Cities.
Q5.
Of what importance to you is the study of 17th - 19th Century European
Literature? Answer with reference to your experience this semester.

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