Download Faith and Doubt - Specialist Studies 19th Century - Exams and more Exams Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Semester 1 Examinations 2011 / 2012 Exam Code(s) 3BA1, 4BA4, 4BCW1, 4BFS1, 4BHR1, 4BIS1, 4BTP1, 4BWM1 Exam(s) 3rd Arts, 4th Arts Module Code(s) EN384 Module(s) Specialist Studies: The Nineteenth Century Paper No. I External Examiner(s) Professor S. Matterson Professor H. Phillips Internal Examiner(s) Professor S. Ryder *Dr Elizabeth Tilley Dr Muireann O’Cinneide Instructions: ANSWER SECTION A AND ONE QUESTION FROM SECTION B. AVOID DUPLICATION OF MATERIAL Duration 2hrs No. of Pages 2 Discipline(s) English Requirements None TIME ALLOWED: TWO HOURS AVOID DUPLICATION OF MATERIAL ANSWER SECTION A AND ONE QUESTION FROM SECTION B. You may make use of an author discussed in the mid-term assignment providing you do not make substantial reference to the same texts in your exam answers. SECTION A: To what extent do the endings of BOTH Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton AND Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations offer resolutions of the issues raised throughout each novel? OR How effectively do BOTH Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton AND Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations balance realism with melodrama/sensation/romance elements in their plots? SECTION B: ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. DO NOT REPEAT MATERIAL USED TO ANSWER SECTION A. 1. Say I--let doubt occasion still more faith! You'll say, once all believed, man, woman, child, In that dear middle-age these noodles praise. How you'd exult if I could put you back Six hundred years, blot out cosmogony, Geology, ethnology, what not, 680 (Greek endings, each the little passing-bell That signifies some faith's about to die) And set you square with Genesis again-- (from Robert Browning, “Bishop Blougram’s Apology”) (a) In light of this quotation, discuss the relationship between faith and doubt with reference to any two authors on the course. OR (b) Discuss how the works of any two authors on the course make use of historical and/or mythical settings. 2. “The sadness in Hardy—his inability to believe in the government of the world by a benevolent God, his sense of the waste and frustration involved in human life, his insistent irony when faced with moral or metaphysical questions—is part of the late Victorian mood.” Discuss this observation in relation to two authors on the course (you need not discuss Hardy if other authors suit your purpose better). PTO
