KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF PMS OFFICER / AETO BPS-17
(2025)
ENGLISH LITERATURE (PAPER-II)
Time Allowed: 03 Hours
Total Marks: 100
Note:- Attempt any five questions. Substantiate your answers with evidence from the works mentioned in the questions. Irrelevant and wrong quotes are discouraged.
Q.No.1 According to T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet is an artistic failure because it lacks objective correlative.” Critically evaluate this remark with examples from the text.
Q.No.2 G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion debunks the hypocrisy of English people. Discuss with a focus on the characters of professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle.
Q.No.3 Janes Austen was a Marxist before Marx. Justify this statement with a critical lens on Pride and Prejudice.
Q.No.4 How does W.B. Yeats engage with the horrors of the First World War and the Irish Issue in “The Second Coming”? Also comment on how/ why he questions the Christian doctrine of redemption in this poem.
Q.No.5 Does D.H.Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers subscribe to or elude the Freudian concept of Oedipus complex?
Q.No.6 Old Man and the Sea is the finest illustration of Hemingway’s action philosophy and economy of language. Discuss.
Q.No.7 “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” Quintessentially represents the existential angst. Discuss with reference to the “actions” of the tramps in Waiting for Godot.
Q.No.8 Robert Frost is of the view that “a good poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Justify this statement in the light of “Mending Wall” and “Road Not Taken”.