CSS past paper

CSS English Literature Past Paper 2022

CSS English Literature 2022 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.

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How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.

Q. 2
Explain how both Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance focus on how the individual must develop and rely on his or her own moral judgement in order to be a respected member of society.
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Q. 3
An ode is a poem of praise. How do John Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode to Autumn’ reflect this classical concept?
(20)
Q. 4
What major tragic aspects of humanity are incorporated into Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd and D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers?
(20)
Q. 5
Describe and analyze the way in which William Shakespeare’s King Lear depicts familial betrayal and disappointment.
(20)
Q. 6
Explain how the theories of Karl Marx are still relevant to literature today.
(20)
Q. 7
Contrast the concept of self-love in Somerset Maugham’s ‘The Lotus Eaters’ with the concept of love for others as reflected in Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net.
(20)
Q. 8
How much of a literary debt does Tennyson’s Ulysses owe to classical Greek and Roman tradition? Comment in detail.
(20)

Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.