Please answer the following questions.

Please answer the following questions.

1. In what ways are the novels we have studied could be considered realistic? Support your answer with specific examples from the novels.

2. Provide two examples to show the differences between the king of Brobdingnag and the king of Lilliput.

3. Why does the king of Brobdingnag discredit Gulliver’s account of his journey? What does it imply?

4. Identify and comment on the extract below.

“… as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me? Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”

5. What does the island of Laputa look like?

6. What are the inhabitants of this island mainly interested in?

7. What island does Laputa dominate?

8. What experiments are carried out by the projectors in the Grand Academy of Lagado?

9. What do these experiments tell us about their appreciation of science?

10. What kind of a place is Glubbdubdrib?

11. How does Gulliver’s experience in these lands affect him?

12. What is Swift’s target of satire in this section?

13. What are the differences between the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms?

14. What is significant about the language of the Houyhnhnmns, and what does it indicate about their frame of mind, morals, values, etc.?

15. What are the “two principal virtues” among the Houyhnhnmns?

16. Describe the social structure in the country of the Houyhnhnms.

17. What does Gulliver’s account of the state of affairs in his country in Book IV consist of, and what does it imply?

18. In what ways is Gulliver’s account in Book IV different from that he gave to the King of Brobdingnag? What is his account mainly critical of?

19. How does his experience in the country of Houyhnhnms transform him?

20. What do Gulliver’s concluding remarks indicate?

21. Define the epistolary novel and discuss its function in Pamela.

22. What do the “48 rules” put forward by Mr. B tell us about the position of married women in 18

century England?

23. Discuss the representation of gender inequality in Roxana and Pamela with reference to specific examples from the novels.

24. Why does Henry Fielding use the phrase “comic epic poem in prose” to describe Joseph Andrews?

25. In what ways is Joseph Andrews a parody of Richardson’s Pamela?

26. Provide one example of the use of epistolary form in Joseph Andrews and discuss its function in the novel.

27. Provide two examples of social criticism in Joseph Andrews.

28. What is the significance of coincidences in Joseph Andrews? Support your answer with one example from the novel.

29. What is the significance of the digressions in Joseph Andrews? Provide an example from the novel.

30. In his preface to Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding states that “from affectation only,

the misfortunes and calamities of life, or the imperfections of nature, may become

the objects of ridicule.” Provide one example from the novel which demonstrates

Fielding’s point.