The Punjab Academy, Samanabad Morre, Lahore

Terminal Exams
Paper: Prose
M.A. English Part-I
Time Allowed: 3 hours Total Marks: 100
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(uestion 1) Gullivers Travels is aimed not at human beings in particular but at human
nature. How far do you agree with this view?
(uestion *) Critically evaluate ussells prose style or !iscuss ussells philosophy of
happiness.
(uestion 3) "acons pragmatism and worldly wisdom temper his philosophy throughout.
#laborate this statement with reference to his essays included in your boo$.
(uestion +) %wift has been charged with misanthropy. &phold or refute the charge with concrete
evidence from his wor$s specially Gullivers Travels.
(uestion ,) How far has #dward %aid succeeded in stripping the mas$ from the ugly face of
'mperialism? #laborate with special reference to his 'ntroduction to Culture and 'mperialism.
(uestion -) (ccording to %eamus Heaney) the peaceful co*e+istence principally depends on the
defence of poetry. (nd poetry balance and counter weigh even in the present day world as
claimed by %eamus Heaney in his edress of ,oetry.
(uestion .) !escribe "acons uni-ue techni-ues employed by him in his prose style and does he
mirror his age? Give as many arguments as you can in order to prove it.