BEGC-110 Solved Assignment 2025-26

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IGNOU BEGC-110 Solved Assignment 2025-26

BA English Honours Programme (BAEGH)
ASSIGNMENT
(FOR JULY 2025 AND JANUARY 2026 SESSIONS)
BA English Honours Compulsory Core
Course (BEGC 110)
BRITISH LITERATURE: 19THCENTURY

BEGC-110
BRITISH LITERATURE: 19thCENTURY
Assignment for July 2025 and January2026 Sessions
(Based on Blocks 1-4)
Max. Marks: 100
Section A
Q.1 Explain the following lines with reference to context: (4 x 5 = 20)
a. And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot
b. She thanked men—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling?
c. “Nay, hush, my sister:
I ate and ate my fill,
Yet my mouth waters still;
To-morrow night I will
Buy more;”
d. Oh! then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent;
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent!
Now round us spreads the watery plain
Oh might our marges meet again!
Section B
Q. 2 Answer the following questions in about 300 words each: 4 x 5 =20
a. Write a short note on Henchard’s tragic hero-like presence in The Mayor of Casterbridge.
b. What is a dramatic monologue? Discuss with reference to the poems in your course.
c. Write a note on Dickens’ depiction of Madame Defarge as a revolutionary figure in A Tale of Two Cities.
d. Write a short note on the central idea of the poem “Pied Beauty.”
Section C 4 x 15 =60
a. Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” suggests that love can provide solace amidst the isolation and suffering inherent in the human condition. Discuss.
b. Discuss the line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” in relation to the character and spirit of Ulysses.
c. “Break, Break, Break” expresses a deep sense of loss. Discuss.
d. Discuss how Dickens portrays the relationship between the aristocracy and the poor in A Tale of Two Cities.

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