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Discuss “Sons and Lovers” as a Bildungsroman or Kunslerroman novel

How did James Joyce present the element of “epiphany” in his novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”?

Write a note on the ‘Theresa Complex’ in Dorothea in “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

Bring out the element of Symbolism in the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

Discuss Thomas Hardy’s use of different symbols in his novel “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”

Discuss Henry Fielding’s novel “Tom Jones” as a picaresque novel

Summary of The Way of All Flesh(1902) by Samuel Butler

Thesis novel: Definition and famous examples

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Ormulum (The Work of the Monk Orm) summary and analysis

Why should I blame her that she filled my days/ With misery, or that she would of late… Explain

What is the source of the poem “Ulysses” by Tennyson

Explain “When old age shall this generation waste,/ Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe…”

Justify the title of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S.Eliot

Bring out central theme of Dylan Thomas’s poem A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

Central theme of the sonnet On the Castle of Chillon by Lord Byron

Gave thee life & bid thee feed/ By the stream & o’er the mead; explain the lines from The Lamb by William Blake

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Character of Jimmy Valentine and Ben Price in the story “Alias Jimmy Valentine” by O Henry

A short summary of the story Alias Jimmy Valentine by O Henry

Anna Freud(1895–1982); Biography and Contribution to Psychology

A note on contribution of King Alfred to the development of Anglo Saxon Prose

Discuss The Tempest as a kind of romance written in a tragic mood.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

What is McDonaldization of society?

Explain the lines “It seemed that out of battle I escaped…Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred from “Strange Meeting”

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Examine the structure of “King Lear:” pointing out its merits and demerits.

Discuss the significance of the character of Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Write a note on Shakespeare’s mixture of prose and verse in “King Lear”.

Write a short note on sources of “Riders to the Sea.” by J.M.Synge

Discuss Ben Jonson’s play “Volpone” as a comical satire

What is ‘keening’? What is the symbolical implication of ‘keening’ in “Riders to the Sea”

Discuss the Various human relationships in “Waiting for Godot”.

A short summary of the play “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare