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BDP Term End Examination c) Consider Samuel Pepys’ account of the December-2018 & June-2019 Elective Course Great Fire of London as a moving

ENGLISH documentation of a significant event in 3rd Paper seventeenth century England. ( New Syllabus ) The Restoration : EEG-3 d) What were the noteworthy features of the ( Enrolled from July, 2015 ) Restoration Comedy of Manners ? Discuss Time : 4 Hours Full Marks : 100 with reference to the works of two major Weightage of Marks : 70% dramatists of the age.

Special credit will be given for precise and correct 2. Answer any three of the following : 12 × 3 = 36 answer. Marks will be deducted for spelling mistakes, untidiness and illegible handwriting. The figures in the a) Assess the influence of Neo-Classicism margin indicate full marks. upon the prose of the Restoration period.

b) What were Samuel Butler’s literary sources 1. Answer any two of the following : 20 × 2 = 40 or models for his Hudibras and how did he a) Attempt a survey of the efforts made, adopt these to serve his own purposes ? during the Puritan Age, to ban drama in c) “ ‘Vanity Fair’ is overwhelmingly enriched England. with the Christian Puritan spirit.” How far b) Evaluate John Dryden’s MacFlecknoe as a political satire, with suitable references to would you agree with this estimate of the the text. episode extracted from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress ?

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d) Give in your own words the gist of e) Suggest a few reasons for the popularity of

Neander’s appreciation of the qualities of the ‘Vanity Fair’ episode from The Pilgrim’s

Ben Jonson as a dramatist. Progress.

e) Show how the characters of Congreve’s The f) What account does Pepys give of the Mayor

Way of The World conform to specific types. of London during the incident of the Great Fire ? f) Examine the dramatic function of the

chorus in Act I of John Dryden’s All for g) Comment on John Dryden’s choice of

Love. subtitle for his dramatic reworking of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. 3. Answer any four of the following : 6 × 4 = 24 h) How, in your opinion, does William a) Briefly mention the achievements of any Congreve develop any one of these themes two major diarists of Restoration England. in The Way of The World ? b) Write a short note on any two Restoration i) Social conventions verse satirists, excluding John Dryden. ii) Marriage and adultery c) In her poem ‘Introduction’, how does Ann Kingsmill Finch develop her idea that

women can accomplish more than what

they are thought to be capable of ?

d) With two examples from the extract from

Hudibras in your syllabus, show how

Samuel Butler uses parody.

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