INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to two (2) of the examination questions below (choose only TWO). Be sure that the questions you choose are from two DIFFERENT columns! In other words, do not answer more than one

Column A. Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus—

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Column B. The Importance of Being

Earnest—Oscar Wilde

Column C. Mrs. Dalloway—

Virginia Woolf

Column D: “The Dead” –

James Joyce

1.) Using quotations from the novel as support, discuss why the creature went after Victor’s family instead of the man himself. Why does the creature go about his vengeance in this manner?

2.) Using quotations from the novel as support, discuss Victor attributes his tragic fate to his relentless search for knowledge. Is this the true cause of his suffering? How does the novel Frankenstein present knowledge as dangerous and destructive?

3.) Using quotations from the novel as support,

discuss how Victor’s attitude toward Nature differs from the Creature’s.

4.) Using quotations from the novel as support,

discuss how Frankenstein comments on the efficacy and the morality of Science.

5.) Using quotations from the novel as support,

discuss whether Victor can be blamed for the crimes his Creature committed

6.) Using quotations from the novel as support,

discuss what duties Victor, the creator, owes to his creation. Can this relationship be compared to the duties a parent owes a chiold?

1.) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss the theme of authorship in Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest​. Why do so many of the characters place importance on authorship and publication? What is Wilde saying about the English social system in this era?

2.) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss how Oscar Wilde comments on the differences between England’s social classes in the attitudes expressed by Lady Bracknell

3.) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss ways that “Bunburying” benefitted the characters Jack and Algernon. In what ways did it harm them?

4.) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss discuss how does Oscar Wilde invert expectations in ​The Importance of Being Earnest​ to highlight social mores of the Victorian era?

5.) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss how in ​The Importance of Being Earnest,​ Oscar Wilde uses his characters to satirize courtship tropes and conventions.

6,) Using quotations from the play as support, discuss your interpretation of the title, The Importance of Being Earnest, and its ironic relation to the play itself..

1.) Using quotations from the novel as support, discuss in what ways Peter Walsh and Sally Seton influence Clarissa.

2.) Using quotations from the novel as support, discuss what the effects are of leading a life of “propriety,” and submitting to “comversion.”

1) Using quotations from the “The Dead,” as support, discuss the significance of Lily’s bitter remark to Gabriel: “The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you” (1250)? Does this statement have any bearing on the conclusion of the story? Explain why it does or why it does not.

2.) Using quotations from ”The Dead,” as support, discuss what Gabriel finally realizes in his epiphany at the end of the short story. What does Gabriel realize about his own life by the end of the story?

3) Using quotations from the “The Dead,” as support, discuss how the short story reflects social changes going on in Ireland in the the time period it was created in?

4.) Using quotations from the “The Dead,” as support, examine and critically present how Joyce depicts social; and economic class in the short story.

5.) Using quotations from the “The Dead,” as support, what does snow represent in the narrative, and how does it particularly affect Gabriel?