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PSSOU From Middle Plantagenet to Carolino Age (1350 A. D. to 1660 A. D.) M-241 Solved Assignment 2025-26

PSSOU MA English Solved Assignment 2025-26

Pandit Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University
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Session – July – June 2025-26
M.A (English Literature) Previous
Subject – From Middle Plantagenet to Carolino Age (1350 A. D. to 1660 A. D.)

(Assignment—1)
Section—A
1. Why are the pilgrims going to Canterbury ?
2. What was the first form Satan took in ‘Paradise Lost’ ?
3. Which character speaks the first line of the play ‘Hamlet’?
4. Who is the protagonist of the ‘Everyman in His Humour’ ?
5. Who wrote the play ‘The White Devil’ ?
6. Who is known for metrical innovation, ‘the rhyme royal’ ?
7. Whose skill does Hamlet discover in the churchyard ?
8. When was Ben Jonson born ?
Section—B
9. What makes the Pardoner so offensive ?
10. What is Hamlet’s tragic flow ?
11. Write a very short note on the realism in ‘Everyman in His Humour’.
12. How can you justify that John Webster is a morally noble writer ?
13. Write in brief about invocation in ‘Paradise Lost’.
14. What is the function of time and the seasons in the Canterbury Tales ?
(Assignment—2)
Section—C
15. Why is the Knight first in the General Prologue and first to tell a tale ?
16. What purpose is served by the epic similes in Book I of Paradise Lost ?
17. Write about Claudius‟s death episode.
18. Write a note on Flamineor’s feigned madness.
(Assignment—3)
Section—D
19. What is the socio-political and historic background of the Age of Chaucer ?
20. Write a note on the plot construction of the epic poem ‘Paradise Lost Book I’.
21. Write a note on William Shakespeare’s view of life as reflected in ‘Hamlet’.
22. Show how ‘Every Man in His Humour’ illustrates Johnson’s theory of comedy.
(Assignment—4)
Section—E
23. Discuss with reference to Book I of Paradise Lost, the view that Milton is in every line of
this epic poem.
24. Bring out the comic and satirical elements in ‘The White Devil’.