৩৬তম BCS — Modern English Literature প্রশ্নসমাধান

এই পরীক্ষায় ৩টি প্রশ্ন — Candida, A Passage to India, Yeats as not-novelist।

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প্রশ্ন ৫১: The play 'Candida' is by-

Options: (a) Joyce • (b) Shakespeare • (c) G.B. Shaw ✓ • (d) Arthur Miller

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) — Irish dramatist

• Nobel Prize in Literature (1925)
• Wrote witty, socially critical plays
• Founded Fabian Society (democratic socialism)

Shaw's Major Plays

Play	Year	Theme
Candida	1894	Domestic, marital tension
Mrs. Warren's Profession	1893	Prostitution, women's rights
Arms and the Man	1894	Anti-war satire
Pygmalion	1913	Class, language
Saint Joan	1923	Joan of Arc
Man and Superman	1903	Philosophy of life-force

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প্রশ্ন ৬৪: 'A Passage to India' is written by-

Options: (a) E.M. Forster ✓ • (b) Kipling • (c) Galsworthy • (d) Auden

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) — Modernist novelist

• A Passage to India (1924) — his most famous work
• About British-Indian relations under the Raj
• The Marabar Caves incident as central mystery

Forster's Major Works

Novel	Year
Where Angels Fear to Tread	1905
A Room with a View	1908
Howards End	1910
A Passage to India	1924
Maurice	1971 (posthumous)

Famous quote

'Only connect.' — Howards End (Forster's central philosophy of human relationships)

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প্রশ্ন ১৬৯: Who of the following writers was not a novelist?

Options: (a) Dickens • (b) W.B. Yeats ✓ • (c) James Joyce • (d) Jane Austen

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) — Irish poet & dramatist

• NOT a novelist — primarily poet and playwright
• Nobel Prize (1923) for poetry
• Co-founder of Irish National Theatre (Abbey Theatre)

Yeats's Famous Works

Work	Type
The Tower (1928)	Poetry collection
The Wild Swans at Coole	Poetry
The Second Coming	Poem
Sailing to Byzantium	Poem
Cathleen ni Houlihan	Play

The other three — all novelists

Author	Famous Novels
Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, David Copperfield
James Joyce	Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility

Yeats's famous lines

• 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.' (The Second Coming)
• 'The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.'

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টপিকটি গভীরে শিখুন

Modern English Literature — মূল লেকচার শিট — Modernist movement, stream-of-consciousness (Joyce, Woolf), war poetry (Owen, Sassoon), absurdist drama (Beckett, Pinter), post-colonial English literature, BCS-tested 20th-century authors।