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PSSOU The Present Age (1914 AD to 2000 AD) M-244 Solved Assignment 2025-26

PSSOU MA English Solved Assignment 2025-26

Pandit Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University
Assignment Work
Session – July – June 2025-26
M.A (English Literature) Previous
Subject – The Present Age (1914 AD to 2000 AD)

(Assignment—1)
Section—A
1. Which Irish movement was W. B. Yeats associated with ?
2. How many lines are there in Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ ?
3. What is the name of Jimmy Porter’s wife ?
4. When was Aldous Huxley born ?
5. Which drug is used to control society in ‘Brave New World’ ?
6. In which year was ‘Look Back in Anger’ first performed ?
7. Who is the protagonist of ‘1984’ ?
8. What are the three superstates in ‘1984’ ?
Section—B
9. What is the central theme of ‘The Second Coming’ ?
10. Comment on the figures of speech used in the poem ‘Byzantium’.
11. Give an account of Eliot‟s use of symbols in ‘The Waste Land’.
12. How does Huxley portray love, relationships and family in ‘Brave New World’ ?
13. Write a character sketch of Helena Charles.
14. Write a short note on the Newspeak.
(Assignment—2)
Section—C
15. Explain with reference to the context :
“Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over, London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”
16. Explain with reference to the context :
“We also predestine and condition. We decant our, babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future….”
17. Explain with reference to the context :
“Well, do I digest you ? Go on, slap my face! I just came back from seeing somebody I love very much go through the sordid process of dying. And you expect me to be overcome with awe because some stupid, cruel girl is going to have a BABY” ?
18. Explain with reference to the context :
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inequitable that they should make that claim sooner or later : the Logic of their position demanded it.”
(Assignment—3)
Section—D
19. Discuss the impermanence of life and the permanence of art in Byzantium poems.
20. Give an account of Eliot’s use of symbols in ‘The Waste Land’.
21. Comment upon the Historical context of the play ‘Look Back in Anger’.
22. What message does Huxley leave for the readers in the novel ‘Brave New World’ ?
(Assignment—4)
Section—E
23. Write a critical appreciation of the novel ‘1984’.
24. Write a critical appreciation of Yeat‟s poem ‘The Second Coming’.