CSS English Literature Past Paper 2022

Instructions specific to this paper

• Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Part-II questions

1. Q. 220 marks

   Explain how both Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance focus on how the individual must develop and rely on his or her own moral judgement in order to be a respected member of society.

2. Q. 320 marks

   An ode is a poem of praise. How do John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode to Autumn’ reflect this classical concept?

3. Q. 420 marks

   What major tragic aspects of humanity are incorporated into Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers?

4. Q. 520 marks

   Describe and analyze the way in which William Shakespeare’s King Lear depicts familial betrayal and disappointment.

5. Q. 620 marks

   Explain how the theories of Karl Marx are still relevant to literature today.

6. Q. 720 marks

   Contrast the concept of self-love in Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Lotus Eaters’ with the concept of love for others as reflected in Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net.

7. Q. 820 marks

   How much of a literary debt does Tennyson’s Ulysses owe to classical Greek and Roman tradition? Comment in detail.

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• Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
• All the parts (if any) of each question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
• Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the question paper.
• No page/space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of the Answer Book must be crossed.
• Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.