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এই পরীক্ষায় এই টপিক থেকে ৩টি প্রশ্ন — Mary Wollstonecraft, William Haughton, Gulliver's Travels।
Options: (a) Claire Clairmont • (b) Mary Wollstonecraft ✓ • (c) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin • (d) Mary Shelley
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Birth-Death | 1759–1797 (died after childbirth) |
| Famous work | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) — note: 'Woman' (singular) is correct title; some printings say 'Women' |
| Era | Late 18th-century Enlightenment / Pre-Romantic |
| Legacy | Founding feminist text in English |
| Daughter | Mary Shelley (1797–1851) — author of 'Frankenstein' |
| Husband | William Godwin (philosopher, anarchist) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin / Mary Shelley |
|---|---|
| Mother | Daughter |
| 1759–1797 | 1797–1851 |
| Feminist philosopher | Novelist |
| 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) | 'Frankenstein' (1818) |
| Pre-Romantic era | Romantic era |
Note: 'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin' was Mary Shelley's name BEFORE her marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley. So options (c) and (d) are basically the same person — the daughter.
Options: (a) Christopher Marlowe • (b) Thomas Kyd • (c) William Haughton ✓ • (d) Ben Johnson
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Era | Elizabethan |
| Famous play | Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will (1598) |
| Genre | London city comedy |
| Importance | Pioneer of city-comedy genre; first surviving English-language comedy set in contemporary London |
| Playwright | Famous works |
|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello |
| Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Edward II |
| Ben Jonson (not 'Johnson') | Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour |
| Thomas Kyd | The Spanish Tragedy |
| William Haughton | Englishmen for My Money |
| Thomas Dekker | The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| Robert Greene | Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay |
| John Webster | The Duchess of Malfi |
Options: (a) Robinson Crusoe • (b) A Doll's House • (c) Vanity Fair • (d) Gulliver's Travels ✓
The quote is from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' (1726), Book II ('A Voyage to Brobdingnag'), Chapter VI — where the King of the giant nation Brobdingnag delivers this scathing verdict on humanity after Gulliver describes English politics, war, and law.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Era | Augustan / Neoclassical (early 18th c.) |
| Nationality | Anglo-Irish (born Dublin) |
| Famous works | Gulliver's Travels (1726), A Modest Proposal (1729), A Tale of a Tub (1704) |
| Genre | Satire |
| Notable role | Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin |
| Book | Land | Description |
|---|---|---|
| I | Lilliput | Tiny people (6 inches tall) — satire on petty politics |
| II | Brobdingnag | Giants — satire on human pettiness; this quote |
| III | Laputa | Floating island — satire on impractical science |
| IV | Houyhnhnmland | Rational horses, savage Yahoos — satire on humanity itself |
| Option | Author | Era |
|---|---|---|
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe (1719) | Early novel — adventurer marooned |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen (1879) | Norwegian play — feminist drama |
| Vanity Fair | William Thackeray (1848) | Victorian novel — Becky Sharp |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift (1726) | Satirical fantasy-fiction |
| Period | Years | Key figures |
|---|---|---|
| Old English | 450–1066 | Beowulf (anonymous) |
| Middle English | 1066–1500 | Chaucer (Canterbury Tales) |
| Renaissance/Elizabethan | 1500–1660 | Shakespeare, Marlowe, Haughton, Bacon |
| Restoration | 1660–1700 | Dryden, Bunyan |
| Augustan/Neoclassical | 1700–1798 | Swift, Pope, Defoe, Johnson |
| Pre-Romantic | late 1700s | Wollstonecraft, Burns, Blake |
| Romantic | 1798–1837 | Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron |
| Victorian | 1837–1901 | Dickens, Tennyson, Brontë sisters, Thackeray |
| Modern | 1901–1945 | Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats |
| Postmodern | 1945–present | Beckett, Pinter, Rushdie |
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