Important Long Questions on
Early 20th Century / Modern Age (1900–1940s)
A. Long Questions on Modernist Novelists
1. Discuss the major novelists of the early 20th century and their contribution to the development of the Modern English novel.
2. Write an essay on Joseph Conrad as a transitional figure between Victorian and Modernist fiction.
3. Evaluate D.H. Lawrence as a novelist of human psychology and instinct.
4. Discuss the narrative techniques used by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
5. Examine the role of “stream of consciousness” in the novels of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
6. Write a critical note on the humanism of E.M. Forster with reference to A Passage to India.
7. Discuss how World War I influenced the modern English novel.
B. Long Questions on Modernist Poetry
8. Discuss the contribution of W.B. Yeats to early 20th-century poetry.
9. Write an essay on T.S. Eliot as a modern poet.
10. Critically examine The Waste Land as a landmark Modernist poem.
11. How does T.S. Eliot use myth and symbolism in his poetry?
12. Discuss the major themes of early 20th-century poetry with special reference to disillusionment, fragmentation, and spiritual crisis.
C. Long Questions on Modern Drama
13. Evaluate the contribution of George Bernard Shaw to Modern English drama.
14. Discuss the features of modern drama with reference to G.B. Shaw and J.M. Synge.
15. Write an essay on the Irish Dramatic Movement and its impact on modern drama.
16. Examine Synge’s dramatic art with reference to Riders to the Sea.
D. Literary Movements & Features of the Age
17. Discuss the major characteristics of Modernism in English literature.
18. How did World War I and World War II shape the literature of the early 20th century?
19. Write a detailed note on the Stream-of-Consciousness technique.
20. Discuss the importance of the Bloomsbury Group in shaping modern literature.
21. Write an essay on psychological realism in Modern English fiction.
22. Explain the rise of the novel of interiority (inner consciousness) in the early 20th century.
E. Women Writers & Feminist Thought
23. Assess the role of Virginia Woolf in the development of modern fiction.
24. Discuss Woolf’s feminist ideas in A Room of One’s Own.
25. Write an essay on women’s writing and gender issues in early 20th-century English literature.
F. Short Novel/Drama/Poetry Based Long Questions
26. Critically analyze Sons and Lovers as a psychological novel.
27. Examine To the Lighthouse as a modern novel.
28. Write a critical appreciation of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming.”
29. What are the major modernist elements in The Waste Land?
30. Discuss the clash of cultures in A Passage to India.
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