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IGNOU BEGE-108 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
Attempt all the questions.
1. Write short notes on any two of the following :
a. Types of the Novel
b. The Postcolonial novel
c. Indian Diasporic Novel
d. Difference between Realism and Naturalism
e. Indian English Novel
f. Flat and Round characters
2. Examine Things Fall Apart as a postcolonial novel.
3.What is characterisation? What are the differences between flat and round characters? Give examples from the novels prescribed for this course.
4. Discuss Paraja as a social novel.
5. Sunlight on a Broken Column exposes the systemic subordination of women through its characters. Discuss.
IGNOU BEGE-108 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Write short notes on any two:
a) Structure and form of the novel.
b) The Indian English Novel after independence.
c) Women writers of the mid- twentieth century
d) The novel of the Diaspora
2. Would you agree that Dickens is a humanistic writer? Discuss your answer based on your reading of A Tale of Two Cities, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal and any other novel by Dickens that you might have read.
3. Attempt an analysis of Achebe as a postcolonial writer. On the basis of on Things Fall Apart, and the other novels discussed in your study material.
4. Analyse Sunlight on a Broken Column as a partition novel told through the eyes of a child narrator. Does the type of narrator make a difference to the way in which events are perceived?
5. Read Paraja as an example of a subaltern novel. Does the ‘subaltern finally speak’? Give a detailed and reasoned answer.
