IGNOU BEGC 110 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BEGC 110 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

BEGC-110

BRITISH LITERATURE: 19th CENTURY

Assignment for July 2025 and January2026 Sessions

(Based on Blocks 1-4)

Max. Marks: 100

Section A

Q.1 Explain the following lines with reference to context:

a.

And moving thro' a mirror clear

That hangs before her all the year,

Shadows of the world appear.

There she sees the highway near

Winding down to Camelot

b.

She thanked men-good! but thanked

Somehow I know not how as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame

This sort of trifling?

c.

"Nay, hush, my sister:

I ate and ate my fill,

Yet my mouth waters still;

To-morrow night I will

Buy more;"

d.

Oh! then a longing like despair

Is to their farthest caverns sent;

For surely once, they feel, we were

Parts of a single continent!

Now round us spreads the watery plain

Oh might our marges meet again!

Section B

Q.2 Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:

a. Write a short note on Henchard's tragic hero-like presence in The Mayor of Casterbridge.

b. What is a dramatic monologue? Discuss with reference to the poems in your course.

C. Write a note on Dickens' depiction of Madame Defarge as a revolutionary figure in A Tale of Two Cities.

d. Write a short note on the central idea of the poem "Pied Beauty."

Section C

a. Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" suggests that love can provide solace amidst the isolation and suffering inherent in the human condition. Discuss. 

b. Discuss the line "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" in relation to the character and spirit of Ulysses.

с. "Break, Break, Break" expresses a deep sense of loss. Discuss.

d. Discuss how Dickens portrays the relationship between the aristocracy and the poor in A Tale of Two Cities.

BEGC 110 (July 2026 - January 2027) - ENGLISH

BEGC-110
BRITISH LITERATURE: 19th CENTURY
Assignment for July 2026 and January 2027 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1-4)
Section A
Q.1 Explain the following lines with reference to context:
 (4x5=20)
a. “Till they perish and they suffer—some, ‘tis whisper’d—down in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
 Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel.
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore
Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;
O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.”
b. “I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more,
 The best and the last!
I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore,
And bade me creep past.
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers…”
c. Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?—
A God, a God their severance ruled!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
d. “For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.”
Section B
Q. 2 Answer the following questions in about 300 words each:
(4x5=20)
a. Explain the significance of Elizabeth- Jane in revealing the moral character of Henchard in The
Mayor of Casterbridge.
b. Write a short note on Duke’s character in the poem “My Last Duchess.”
c. Discuss how Dickens portrays Lucie Manette as a symbol of home and domestic harmony in A Tale
of Two Cities.
d. Write a short note on the theme of the poem “The Windhover”.
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Section C
 Q. 3 Answer the following questions in about 600 words each. 

a. “Happiness is an occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” Discuss this statement with
reference to the portrayal of Henchard’s character in The Mayor of Casterbridge.
b. Explain the significance of the line “I am half sick of shadows” in “The Lady of Shalott.”
c. Compare and contrast the themes explored in “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning.”
d. Critically analyse Dickens’ portrayal of the two worlds of London and Paris in A Tale of Two Cities.

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