Vallath Jharkhand Eligibility Test | Exam Practice | Session 7

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Hello everyone.

[00:00:03]Welcome to another session of Jharkhand eligibility test revision.

[00:00:08]Ankita, we have done many. This is the seventh one. Wow. Yes.

[00:00:14]>> That's a lot.

[00:00:18]Right. So, are you ready, Ankita?

[00:00:22]Yes, I'm absolutely ready.

[00:00:26]Yes.

[00:00:27]The Big Heart is a novel by Mulk Raj Anand. The theme of the novel is a conflict between hereditary coppersmiths and the capitalist. Mulk Raj Anand could be an important topic for uh Jharkhand set.

[00:00:42]So, what was the year in which it is published?

[00:00:46]Do you think it was published in the year of independence?

[00:00:50]I don't think so. Big Heart 45 40 or 38? Now, all the major novels, of course, you should know, but even the minor novels you should know. It is 45.

[00:01:06]2 years before independence, you should remember in connection with other things that you know. Then it'll be very easy to remember.

[00:01:15]Okay, Ankita. Anything to add?

[00:01:18]So, since Jharkhand eligibility test exam would be closely following the NET syllabus for NET, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, Bhavani Bhattacharya, all of them are very important authors. And as you all have seen in UPA JSC exam also, the years the years of the texts would be very important. They will ask you match the following also from years.

[00:01:43]So, please make sure you are revising the years thoroughly.

[00:01:53]Yes. Uh Can you explain this, Ankita? Huh. Yes.

[00:02:00]Percy Bysshe Shelley's a defense of poetry. It's a passionate essay which argues that poetry and imagination are essential for moral, social, and intellectual progress.

[00:02:15]A written to counter Dash's claim that poetry is obsolete, Shelley asserts that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, fostering empathy, civilization, and truth.

[00:02:29]So, P. B. Shelley wrote this work, A Defence of Poetry, in reaction to whom?

[00:02:36]Was it against Stephen Gosson, Thomas Nash, Thomas Love Peacock, or Walter Pater? We know that P. B. Shelley wrote this work against the essay against Thomas Love Peacock's essay, The Four Ages of Poetry. Against Thomas Love Peacock's essay, The Four Ages of Poetry. And this work, A Defence of Poetry, was published posthumously. Was published posthumously in 1840. And it's a very important piece of a romantic criticism.

[00:03:14]Right. The Four Ages of Poetry, according to Thomas Love Peacock, are iron, gold, silver, and brass. He called his own age the age of brass and also second childhood.

[00:03:28]He was insulting the romantic age. Yes. The Life Divine by Dash is a comprehensive philosophical work outlining the spiritual evolution of humanity from mental beings into divine supramental beings.

[00:03:45]The Life Divine is a comprehensive philosophical work by is it Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Manik Bandopadhyay, or Sri Aurobindo? As you all might know, this is an easy one. It is Sri Aurobindo who wrote The Life Divine. It's where he talks about integral yoga.

[00:04:09]He talks about different states of the mind, and he is a very yogic uh philosopher among all the Indian writers.

[00:04:21]He also wrote The Future Poetry and Savitri, A Legend and a Symbol.

[00:04:29]Okay, Ankita, over to you. Huh.

[00:04:31]Yes. So, now we have a very important quote.

[00:04:35]True wit is nature to advantage dressed, but oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

[00:04:44]So, we can see this line goes in the style of heroic couplets, right? So, this is a line from which work?

[00:04:52]Is it from An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, or The Dunciad? Here, all the works are by Pope, the famous neoclassical poet. But this specific quote is from which work?

[00:05:11]It is An Essay on Criticism.

[00:05:15]Yes. Yes.

[00:05:16]>> It is a book where there are many such quotes, very famous quotes.

[00:05:20]An Essay on Criticism is 1711 work.

[00:05:25]Mhm. Right. Who among the following did not employ stream of consciousness technique? Did Dorothy Richardson employ Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, G- G- G- G- G- Graham Greene?

[00:05:37]>> [laughter] >> Graham Greene did not employ stream of consciousness because it was employed by the modernists, high modernists. Graham Greene was a late modernist.

[00:05:48]Dorothy Richardson employed it for the first time in literature in English in Pilgrimage. Virginia Woolf in many novels as well as James Joyce.

[00:05:57]Right? And uh Stream of consciousness was first originally a term in uh our psychology, first used by William James. And it was applied to literature in the context of Dorothy Richardson by May Sinclair.

[00:06:15]May Sinclair.

[00:06:17]Okay, Ankita, over to you.

[00:06:19]Huh.

[00:06:21]So, next question from Indian literature.

[00:06:24]Possession by Dash is a novel which explores the destructive possessive relationship between Lady Caroline Bell, an aristocratic British woman, and Valmiki, who is a talented young South Indian shepherd.

[00:06:41]Set around India's independence, this novel covers themes of cultural clash, economic exploitation, and the struggle between material wealth and spiritual freedom. So, see, Possession, this title itself talks about the idea of possession, not only just wealth, but human uh relations. The idea of possessing one another, right? So, who wrote this novel? Is it Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Manju Kapur, or Kamala Markandaya? This author is very important. She has also written important novels like Nectar in a Sieve, published in 1954.

[00:07:20]It is Kamala Markandaya. Kamala Markandaya is very important. Yes. Yes, right, ma'am.

[00:07:28]Kamala Markandaya.

[00:07:33]Okay.

[00:07:35]Huh.

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[00:08:26]Uh Ankita, what is practical criticism?

[00:08:29]It's a NET PYQ. Would you like to explain?

[00:08:33]Yes. So, here you have to tell me what do you mean by this practical criticism?

[00:08:39]And it's a PYQ from NET.

[00:08:41]So, is it the close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political meaning? No, that's not really correct.

[00:08:50]Is it a movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant? No.

[00:08:56]Is it the close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information? That's correct.

[00:09:04]But the study of ambiguity, no. So, practical criticism was more or less like new criticism, you can say.

[00:09:11]This schools of criticism or this thought processes or this schools of thinking, you can say, they were preoccupied with the idea of close reading. Close reading of the text, and they were not really bothered about the external circumstances.

[00:09:28]Okay, so option C would be correct. The close analysis of poems without taking into account the external circumstances.

[00:09:36]Yes. Right. Yes, ma'am.

[00:09:38]Okay, who is associated with the idea of the banality of evil?

[00:09:45]Which argues that great atrocities such as the Holocaust uh are not solely committed by monsters like Hitler, but by ordinary individuals who surrender their ability to think acting as thoughtless bureau- bureaucrats within a system.

[00:10:04]Banality of evil. I don't know this answer. What is the answer Anikta? Is it a Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Husserl, or Kierkegaard?

[00:10:14]So ma'am, here the correct answer would be Hannah Arendt. So this concept of banality of evil was first propounded by Hannah Arendt in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, a report on the banality of evil. And this work was based on her coverage of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, a key Holocaust organizer. And in this work, very importantly, Arendt argues that mass atrocities are often committed not by fanatic monsters or not necessarily megalomaniac people, but by ordinary common shallow bureaucrats who just mindlessly, blankly follow orders without thinking. They just keep conforming to the orders the dictators which which keep coming from the leader and they keep conforming to that. That's what Hannah [clears throat] Arendt called as banality of evil.

[00:11:12]That is such a beautiful explanation. I wanted to hear this brilliant girl's brilliant explanation. Thank you so much for that. Thank you. The harp of India by dash is a patriotic song lamenting India's lost glory and freedom under British colonial rule.

[00:11:30]It uses the metaphor of a neglected, silent, and broken harp to represent the stagnation of Indian art, culture, and intellectual spirit.

[00:11:40]The poem calls for a national cultural revival. So the harp of India is a very famous poem by Sarojini Naidu or Henry Derozio or Ezekiel. It is Derozio.

[00:11:55]The harp of India. He has written a lot of patriotic poems and he was the leader of the Young Bengal Movement.

[00:12:05]It is one of his patriotic sonnets.

[00:12:09]As You Like It by Shakespeare is a dash.

[00:12:11]Anikta, over to you.

[00:12:13]Yes. So you know, in NET exam or in SET exams, you will see these types of questions.

[00:12:20]They're asking the genres or the subgenres of works.

[00:12:25]Uh things which we often tend to overlook when we study.

[00:12:28]So now let's discuss this.

[00:12:31]As You Like It. You all have heard about this play. What type of play is it exactly? Is it a a revenge tragedy, a tragicomedy, or city comedy, or a pastoral a romantic comedy? Very importantly, it is a pastoral mature a romantic comedy of Shakespeare. Here the forest of Arden is that pastoral setting within which maximum action of this play unfolds. And that's why we often uh read this play through the lens of ecocriticism because here the pastoral setting of the forest of Arden shows how all the chaos, all the problems created within the urban settings are uh resolved within a pastoral setting. So it's a pastoral romantic comedy. Yes.

[00:13:25]>> Yeah, yes.

[00:13:27]As You Like It by Shakespeare where you have Rosalind, Celia Celia, then Duke Senior, and Jaques who says all the world is a stage. Yes.

[00:13:41]The Spectator published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele from dash.

[00:13:45]Which year? From which year did he start they start publishing The Spectator?

[00:13:49]Uh was a highly influential London periodical designed to enliven morality with wit and temper wit with morality.

[00:13:58]It is 9 17 11. 1709 was The Tatler, 1711 was The Spectator first published.

[00:14:07]Yes.

[00:14:08]Anikta? [clears throat] Huh.

[00:14:10]So again, we have a question from Indian literature. Chandalika or Chondalika by dash. It's a powerful dance drama which explores caste discrimination, self-worth, and the idea of a redemption. So you can see how a a religious angle is there to it. Yes.

[00:14:33]And this dance drama follows this character called Prakriti, a low caste Chandal girl who after being treated with dignity by the Buddhist monk Anondo or Ananda becomes obsessed with him.

[00:14:48]And thus, later she requests her mother to use magic to draw him in only to realize the tragedy of her vanity and seek a redemption. It's a beautiful beautiful work. Who wrote it? Is it by Michael Madhusudan Datta, Tagore, Kishori Mohan Ganguli, or Girish Karnad?

[00:15:10]It's a beautiful dance drama which uh deals with very sensitive issues of caste, desire, sin, salvation, and redemption.

[00:15:20]And it's a work by Rabindranath Tagore.

[00:15:24]Option B would be the correct answer.

[00:15:28]Very good.

[00:15:29]Now moving on, which among the following statements are true about modernism?

[00:15:34]Modernism marked a break with formal conventions.

[00:15:38]True. Old ways of thoughts underwent cultural shifts.

[00:15:45]Decline of liberal humanism.

[00:15:49]Okay. Modernism revived classical scholarship.

[00:15:53]Modernism promoted logocentric way of thoughts.

[00:15:58]What is the answer? Is it ABC?

[00:16:03]It is.

[00:16:03]>> Yes, ma'am. ABC is correct. Yes.

[00:16:07]Yes.

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[00:17:11]Yes.