20th century novelist 1 marks

                     20th century novelists

One mark

1. George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair.

2. The two important political allegories of Orwell are “Animal Farm” and “1984”.

3. “Animal Farm” is an allegory on socialism.

4. In “Animal Farm” the animals launch a revolution against Mr. Jones, the oppressive master.

5. The pigs prepared a set of commandments for the new rule.

6. The pigs introduced the doctrine that all animals are equal.

7. “Animal Farm” implies that equality is Utopian.

8. Exploitation is the key in any social structure.

9. The novel, “Animal Farm” implies power corrupts absolutely.

10.“Animal Farm” decodes that socialism also has created the same hierarchic and exploitative social structure as capitalism.

    12.The three major works of James Joyce are “A portrait of the Artist   as a Young Man”, “Ulysses” and “Finnegan’s Wake”.

    13.James Joyce’s most celebrated work is Ulysses.

    14.“Ulysses” is modeled on Homer’s epic Odyssey.

     15.Joyce invented new words like malodorous.

     16.“Ulysses” is also a parodic inversion of Odyssey.

      17.People suggested banning “Ulysses” for obscenity.

     18.“Virginia Woolf” is one of the writers who used stream of consciousness technique.

     19.Like James Joyce, Woolf is also less concerned with the external world.

     20.Woolf’s narratives are fragmented.

    21.Woolf’s famous novels are “Mrs. Dalloway”, “To the light house”, “Orland”, “The waves”.

     22.“Mrs. Dalloway” expresses Woolf’s views on existence, life and death, sanity and insanity and memory.

    23.Tere are autobiographical elements in the novel “Mrs. Dalloway”.

    24.Septimus’s suicidal depression matches Woolf’s depression.