Suggestive questions of Paper VI:-

1. Riders to the sea:- marks 12

i. Role of the sea in the play Riders to the Sea
ii. How do premonitions and forebodings construct the ambience of the play Riders to the
Sea
iii. Riders to the Sea as a poetic play
iv. Write a note on symbolism of the play.
Marks:- 6
i. What is the price of hundred horses, or thousand horses against a son where
there is one son only.
ii. I have seen the fear fullest thing.
iii. "God won't leave her destitute... with no son living”
iv. "May the Almighty God have mercy on Bartley's soul and on Michael's soul ...
and may He have mercy on my soul, Nora and the soul of everyone is left living
in the world."
v. “What way will I live and the girls with me and I an old women looking for the
grave?”
vi. "No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied."

2. Arms and the Man:- Marks 12

i. Do you think that ‘Arms and the Man’ deals with the education of Raina? discuss
ii. Give a critical estimate of the play ‘Arms and the Man’ as a play of debates and
discussion.
iii. Discuss Shaw's portrayal of Louka in Arms and the Man
iv. What is the significance of the first meeting of Raina and Bluntschli in terms of the
theme of the play 'Arms and the Man'?
Marks:- 6
i. And there was Don Quixote flourishing like a drum major
ii. What a man! Is he a man!
iii. You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his hostlers and cartridge
boxes
iv. "It proves that all our ideas were real after all".
v. "You have the soul of a servant, Nicola."
vi. "Give no ammunition. What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry
chocolate instead."
vii. "When you set up your shop you will only be everybody's servant instead of
somebody's servant?"
3. Lord of the Flies:- Marks 12
i. Characterization in Lord of the Flies**
ii. Atmosphere of the novel**
iii. Lord of the Flies as an allegory **
 iv. Significance of the setting
v. Two major symbols in William Golding's Lord of the Flies are the conch shell and the
Pig's head on a stick. Analyse these symbols in relation to the meaning of the text.
4. Araby/Fly:- Marks 12
i. Discuss how the theme of disillusionment has been presented in Araby
ii. Examine the appropriateness of the title- Araby **
iii. Can we say that Joyce's use of light and darkness in 'Araby' is inseparable from the
theme of the short story? Give reasons for your answer.
iv. What according to you, is the theme of the short story, "Araby"? Elucidate your answer
v. Comment on the appropriateness of the title Fly
vi. Write a note on the character of the boss in The Fly
vii. What is the significance of the fly episode in the short story 'The Fly'?
viii. Examine "The Fly" as a short story
Marks:-6
i. What was the impact of love on the life of the narrator in Araby?
ii. I’ll see nobody for half an hour. Macey said the boss, “understand? Nobody at
all” Bring out the tragic implications of this order from the boss.
iii. Appearance of the boss in the story The Fly
iv. What is the significance of the character of 'Woodifield' in the short story, 'The
Fly'?
v. What does the narrator mean by "her image accompanied me even in places
the most hostile to romance" in 'Araby'?
vi. Do you think that the appearance of the Boss is important for the theme of the
short story, "The Fly"?
vii. Briefly describe the boy's journey to Araby and its outcome.
5. Novelist as a teacher/ In Praise of Idleness:- Marks 12
i. Show, after Achebe, how a novelist can help a race recover from the traumatic effects of
confrontation with Europe.
ii. Explore the reader-writer relationship as perceived by Achebe in his essay ‘The Novelist
as Teacher
iii. How can a novelist become a teacher for his people? Discuss after Chinua Achebe's
'Novelist as Teacher'.
iv. Examine Chinua Achebe as an essayist with special reference to "The Novelist as a
Teacher".
v. How does Russel attack sloth in the guise of praising it in his In Praise of Idleness?Why
do you think Russell wrote the essay at all?
vi. Examine Russel’s In Praise of Idleness as an essay
vii. Comment on Russell's style of writing as revealed, in his essay "In Praise of Idleness"
viii. Do you think that "Russell's intention is instructive" in the essay "in Praise of Idleness'?
Give reasons for your answer
Marks-6
i. Briefly comment on Achebe’s style in The Novelist as Teacher
ii. What does Russell mean when he says “Leisure is essential to civilization”?
iii. They are all props we have fashioned at different times to help us get on our
feet again- explain after Achebe
iv. Briefly comment on the use of irony in Russell’s In Praise Of Idleness
v. Throughout Europe, though not in America. There is a third class of men-
Explain Russell’s classification of men
vi. What is the story of the traveller and twelve beggars? What does Russell want
to suggest through it in his essay 'In Praise of Idleness'?
vii. "Work is of two kinds"— How does Russell classify work in his essay?
viii. "... to teach the boy that there is nothing disgraceful about the African weather,
that the palm tree is a fit subject for poetry." — Explain after Achebe.
ix. What, according to Achebe, is the difference between European writers and
African writers?
x. What, according to Russell, is the use of idleness?
xi. Do you think that Russell has been sarcastic in his treatment of idleness?
xii.