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Litt 0312: Literature From The Rest Of The World Question Paper
Litt 0312: Literature From The Rest Of The World
Course:Diploma In Education Arts
Institution: Chuka University question papers
Exam Year:2013
CHUKA
UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE AWARD OF DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION ARTS
LITT 0312: LITERATURE FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD
STREAMS: DIP. EDUC TIME: 2 HOURS
DAY/DATE: THURSDAY 25/4/2012 8.30AM – 10.30 PM
INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS
EITHER
1. (a) Describe and discuss the character of Oedipus in the play King Oedipus by
Sophocles. [24 Marks]
OR
(b) Briefly describe and discuss the following characters in the play Othello by William Shakespeare
(i) Othello
(ii) Desdemona
(iii) Iago [23 Marks]
2. Describe the character of Tess in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the Urdebilles indicating clearly how she is a child of fate. [23 Marks]
3. Read the attached poem titled ‘The Flea’ by John Donne and answer the following questions.
(a) What is this poem about? [10 Marks]
(b) Explain the symbolic value of the flea in the poem. [8 Marks]
(c) What has happened in the last stanza of the poem; “cruel and sodaire, hast thon
since…..” [6 Marks]
4. Discuss the themes of freedom and resistance in Alejo Carpenter’s novel, The kingdom of this World. [23 Marks]
5. Briefly discuss the following characters in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible.
(a) John proctor [8 Marks]
(b) Abigael Williams [8 Marks]
(c) Rev. John Hale [7 Marks]
6. Refering closely to the story in Gabriel Garcia’s novel, One Hundred years of Solitude, discuss the main themes. [23 Marks]
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JOHN DONNE
The Flea1
Marke but this flea, 2 and marke in this,
How little that which thou deny’st me is;
Mee it suck’d first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea, our two bloods mingled bee;
Confesse it, this cannot be said
A sinne, or shame, or losse of maidenhead,
Yet this enjoyes before it wooe,
And pamper’d swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more than wee would doe.
Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where wee almost, nay more than maryed are:
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w’are met,
And cloysterd in these living walls of jet.
Though use make thee apt to kill mee,
Let not to this, selfe murder added bee,
And sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.
Cruel and sodaine, hast though since
Purpled thy naile, in blood of innocence?
In what could this flea guilty bee,
Except in that drop which it suckt from thee?
Yet though triumpt’st, and saist that thou
Find’st not thy selfe, nor mee the weaker now;
‘tis true, then learne how false, feares bee;
Just so much honor, when thou yeeld’st to mee,
Will wast, as this flea’s death tooke life from thee
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