1. 1 Define Bildungsroman elements with reference to examples from Charlotte's Bronte's Jane Eyre. Bildungsroman: A subgenre of the novel which traces the education or development of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood. Examples may vary but students should focus on the psychological and emotional changes which Jane Eyre undergoes especially the changes in her temperament and the cooling of her fiery and sometimes aggressive spirit.

2. 2 Describe the character and role of Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Collins is a character presented by Jane Austen as showing pious platitude. He cloaks self- interest with the appearance of complacent morality. What Mr. Collins is seeking is a grateful and useful wife! He is one of Austen's memorable comic characters. His self-deceptions, false self- justifications, prejudice and hypocrisy are self- revealing in his discourse. Mr. Collins epitomizes a grotesque form of servile pride and its resulting prejudices. The religious intolerance he expresses towards Lydia has to be seen as a part of his slavish desire to flatter and imitate the views of his social superiors. He is satirized by Jane Austen for his evangelical emphasis upon the inherent sinfulness of human nature.

3. 3 Discuss the kinds of narrator and narrative techniques in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Great Expectations. Your answer should analyze why Austen uses various narrative strategies that are different from the ones used by Bronte or Dickens 1.Students should refer to 3rd person narration, showing and telling, free indirect speech (ventriloquism), and speech types and give the significance of the importance of each. Bronte, on the other hand, uses the first person narrator with dual perspective, as in Great Expectations, but she focuses more on the narrator's use of description, imagery, dreams and symbols to relate the narrative. Dickens also uses dual perspective (that of the child's and of the adult's), the suggestive method (things become animate as in the description of Havisham's place) and the hallucinatory fits that Pip undergoes (Ch 5 Van Ghent).

4. 4 Briefly discuss the realistic, romantic, and gothic elements in Charles Dicken's Great Expectations. The students should explain how Dickens uses realism through social class and psychology, romanticism through his characters' ambitions, and Gothicism through the setting, supernatural elements, and the characters themselves. They should point out, that this hybrid approach provides for a story that is loyal to the ever-present instability of human nature itself and the journey in moral growth. The answer should relate that the gothic elements in this novel include such events as supernatural events, shadowy, sinister settings, and actions driven by revenge.

5. 5 Briefly discuss the realistic, romantic, and gothic elements in Charles Dicken's Great Expectations. Romance subordinates realism to emotion, and offers intensely personal rather than rational objective responses. Pip's hopeless obsession with Estella ripples all the way through GE and is in fact his motivation for becoming a 'gentleman'. This novel is also very accurate in its realistic representation of social structure and class differences. Pip starts out low on the social chain, only above the criminal, impoverished class, and early in life he recognizes that there is a lower scale than the one he belongs to. When Pip helps the convict Magwitch on the marshes, he observes how low Magwitch is, and he fears that in helping him or reaching to his level that he will be reduced to his low level.

6. 6 Define nihilism with reference to Bazarav's character and role in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. 1.Nihilism: is the denial of all received values and belief only in the liberating potential of scientific materialism. Bazarov, the hero in Turgenev's Father and Sons, is a self- proclaimed nihilist who, though a fervent advocate of science who scorns romance and family affection, is a contradictory character who struggles with his beliefs. His ironic fatal illness and his desperate love for Odintsova show his struggle to adhere to his beliefs.

7. 7 Financial security is very important in Jane Austen's mind, and hence the importance of marriage in her fiction. Illustrate with reference to Pride and Prejudice. (Chapter 2). 1.In Jane Austen's time, gender distributions had a clear cut. "Men for the field and women for the hearth', women had no income of their own except through affluent matrimony or conditioned inheritance. Jane Austen herself had a very meager income fro m novel writing which did not suffice her family needs and thus sprang her obsession with financial security for women, expressed in most of her novels and particularly in Pride and Prejudice.

8. 8 Financial security is very important in Jane Austen's mind, and hence the importance of marriage in her fiction. Illustrate with reference to Pride and Prejudice. (Chapter 2). 1.From the opening of the novel, the subject matter of marriage is stated in connection with fortune. Prosperous young men must be in want of a wife, implicitly stating that destitute women must be desperate for such wealthy men, making marriage a mercenary issue. There are many references in P&P which support this statement. Mr. Collins stated that Elizabeth's "portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of [her] loveliness and amiable qualifications". When she insisted on rejecting his proposal, Mrs. Bennett voiced her indignation: "if you go on refusing every offer of marriage, you will never get a husband-- and I am sure!