English Literature KP PMS Paper II 2016

KHYBER PAKHTOON KHWA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES (BPS-17) 2016
ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER II
TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100

Note: Please attempt any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks.

Q. 1. Does Ernest Hemingway present Santiago as a Christ figure? 20

Q. 2. Explain how the characters of Claudius and Hamlet act as two master chess players. 20

Q. 3. How does the opening sentence in Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”, set the scene for the rest of the novel? 20

Q. 4. Elaborate on how The Wasteland exemplifies fragmented experience that modern life embodies. 20

Q. 5. Sons and Lovers testifies yet again that Freudian psychoanalytical theory is indebted to literature. Discuss. 20

Q. 6. Explain how Gulliver’s Travels can have different meanings for readers of different age groups and backgrounds. 20

Q. 7. Apparently Yeats does not expect the Second Coming to be a Christian one; what kind of Second Coming does he predict? 20