The Speaker's inclination to cater to party loyalties often undermines the dignity and impartiality of the office, eroding public trust in the legislative process. Analyse with the help of recent examples.

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Answer all of the following questions in about 150 words each: 10x5=50 (a) Analyse the ways in which Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim addresses the ideological and moral consequences of colonialism and racism. 10 (b) Elaborate how guilt, sin and confession contribute to Stephen's moral and psychological development in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10 (c) Examine the characters in Sons and Lovers from a psychoanalytical perspective. 10 (d) Analyse how E.M. Forster employs the tripartite structure in A Passage to India to explore the limits of cross-cultural understanding. 10 (e) Examine Mrs. Dalloway as a novel that explores its deepest concerns through the themes of medicine, empire, and love. 10