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Answer the following questions in 80-100 words each.

(i) Who was Frank? Why did Eveline’s father quarrel with him?


(ii) An account of reflection is more important than description of reality, according to Virginia Woolf. Why?


(iii) How does the novel reflect the wholeness of a human being?


(i) Frank was a sailor and was the lover of Eveline. He wants to marry Eveline and live with her in Buenos Aires. She agreed to live with him in secret. Eveline’s father quarrels with him because he was not giving his approval for this relationship. So, he started giving voice in disapproval. He was bicker with Frank. So, she started meeting Frank in clandestine and was planning to elope with him.


(ii) The story is about the narrator noticing a mark on the wall. The mark made him think and speculate. He also mentioned the stream of consciousness which is the reality of everyday lives. The narrator also talked about the infinite reflection and the description of reality. He further questions the varying nature of reality that is presented to us. He further made shocking revelations that the real things are actually not real. Thus, in the end, the narrator realizes that the mark on the wall was no more exciting. Thus, according to Virginia Woolf, an account of reflection is more important than the description of reality.


(iii) In the novel, the narrator explores the Romantic concept of the relativity of parts and wholes. Unlike others, the novel reaches us ‘whole hog’. The writer further asserts that there is nothing good or nothing right. The writer’s hatred of absolutes is supplemental to the relativity of parts and wholes. He further said that a man alive is as much or more than the body than to the spirit or mind. He further supports by disassembling an old cliché.


He further explains that few non-living beings bleed on cut because of the presence of the inner dead entities. But human beings bleed because of life in the skin. Thus, in this way the novel reflect the wholeness of a human being.


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Choose any two of the extracts given below and answer the questions, that follow, in 50-60 words each:

(I) “I only came to tell you that I dreamed about you last night”, she said “you must leave right away and not come back to Vienna for five years”


(i) Who is the speaker? Why did she come there?


(ii) What suggestion was given by the speaker to the narrator?


(II) Could I survive within me


Her symphony and song,


To such a deep delight, twould win me,


That with music loud and long,


I would build that dome in air,


That sunny dome! those caves of ice!


(i) What does the poet wish about the song?


(ii) What can the poet achieve through music and how?


(III) Prakriti "There has been a curse upon me all my life. Poison kills poison, they say-so one curse another. Not another word".


i. Name the other character Prakriti is talking to and Why?


ii. What curse she has faced throughout her life?


 4

Answer the following questions in 80-100 words each.

(i) Tao Ying always tried to save money. What were her reasons for buying two tickets?


(ii) The poem is replete with shadows giving different shades to it. What is the idea behind this?


(iii) The presence of Manjula's sister could be felt everywhere although she never appears. Build Malini’s character on the basis of the comments and references.


 5

Answer any two of the following in 80-100 words each:

(i) What was Raja’s opinion of human beings when he was in the circus?


(ii) Describe the character of Captain as revealed in novel.


(iii) Describe the role played by Swamiji in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi’.


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Answer any one of the following questions in 150-200 words:

(i) Raja is a leading character in ‘A Tiger for Malgudi .’ Comment


(ii) “Greed Knows No Bounds” Justify the statement with reference to the Captain’s greed .