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IGNOU MEG-03 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Comment on the significance of places as segments of life in Tom Jones. Do you think that these segments bring to life the diversity and interrelatedness of eighteenth century English life?
2. Explain how Jane Austen engages with the theme of love and marriage in Pride and
Prejudice.
3. Discuss the narrative techniques adopted by Emily Bronte in Wuthering Heights. Explain how the complex narrative reflects multiple voices.
4. Explain how George Eliot engages with the ‘woman question’ in Middlemarch.
5. Consider A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as an aesthetic autobiography.
IGNOU MEG-03 (July 2023 – January 2024) Assignment Questions
1. Comment on Fielding’s narrative strategies in Tom Jones.
2. Discuss the ways in which Pride and Prejudice foregrounds the social and economic realities of women’s lives in Jane Austen’s time.
3. How does Dickens’s novel Great Expectations engage with the theme of upward social mobility and self-improvement?
4. Discuss the ways in which forces of race and class shape characters and episodes in A Passage to India.
5. Comment on Muriel Spark’s narrative technique in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.