Literary Essays - Past Papers - MA English Literature - Part 2 - Sargodha University

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Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Total Marks: 100

Passing Marks: 40 (As of 2020)

Note: Write an essay on any one of the following topics. 

2022 IIA

1. Modern Tragedy.
2. Shakespearean Comedy.
3. Style is the Man.
4. Development of Satire and its Role in the Modern Age.
5. Metaphysical Poetry.
6. Romanticism and Classicism.
7. Literature Mirrors Human life in General.
8. Thomas Hardy was more of a Realist than a Pessimist.

2021

1. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
2. Romanticism is a Disease, Classicism is health
3. Aestheticism
4. Character is Destiny
5. Shakespearean Clowns
6. Art for Art's Sake
7. Depiction of life in Postmodern Fiction
8. To be or not to be that is the question

2020

1. The "stream of consciousness" style of literature
2. Concept of mortality in Shakespearean tragedies.
3. Characteristics of Metaphysical poetry
4. "What though the field be lost? All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
   And study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield."
5. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
6. Not economy but politics is a key to success.
7. Global Warming, fact or fiction?
8. Women sportspersons are new ambassadors of the soft image of Pakistan.

2019

1. Thomas Hardy was mee of a realist than a pessimist
2. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
3. To be or not to be that is the question
4. "Made weak by time and kale, but strong 1n will
   To strive, to seek, to tind, and not to yield. "
5. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
6. Shakespearean Comedy
7. Acstheticium
8. Depiction of life in postmodern fiction

2018

1. Had there been no Marlowe, there would have been no Shakespeare.
2. Victorian Novel
3. Earlier Romantics vs Later Romantics
4. Hardy and Shakespeare as tragic artists
5. In tragic life, God wot, No villains need be! Passions spin the plot: we are betrayed by what is false within.
6. Art for Art’s sake
7. To be or not to be, that is the question
8. Style is the man

2017

1. Frailty thy name is woman.
2. Better to reign in Hell then serve in heaven
3. Child is the father of man.
4. Literature is twice removed from reality.
5. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
6. Shakespearean Tragedy.
7. Neo classicism vs Romanticism.

2016

1. Literature and Society.
2. Romanticism in a Disease, Classicism is Health.
3. Modern Tragedy.
4. Character is Destiny
5. Shakespearean Clowns
6. Art for Art’s Sake
7. Trends in Victorian Novel

2015

1. Modern Tragedy
2. Romantic Comedy
3. Epic Poetry
4. Comedy of Manners and Comedy of Errors.
5. Literature is the Mirror of Life
6. Destiny is Character
7. Orientalism in English Literature

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