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the royal bed of Denmark bell Adieu, adieu,
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 What am I fit for ? What have you left me
fit for ? Where am I to go ? What am I to
do ? What's to become of me ?
I'm in the fire and I'm burning, and all I want is
to die 7 But what does it matter - and this is
what he wanted from me ? Don't you see ?
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Waiting for Godot. (400 words)
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Comment on the use of the device of chums in
Murder in the cathedral. (400 words)

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(200 words each) : 2x10=20

Helen in Dr. Faustus

Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream

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(a) Such was Pythagoras' thigh, Pandora's tub

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The manner of our work;

(b) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull laid him

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stretched out, and he split to the knob of his

gullet.
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 (c) I keep looking back, as far as I remember
and I can't think what it was to, feel young,
really young.
(d) To die, to sleep;

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the rub.
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tragedy in Elizabethan drama (400 words)

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Discuss the nature of the four temptations that
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in A Midsummer Night's dream ?

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and Reformation comment (400 words).

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Analyse the structure of The Alchemist (400 words)

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"extravagant comedy" (400 words)
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Comment on the title of the play Look Back in

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Anger (400 words)

6. How does Shaw attack social snobbery and class 20

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difference in Pygmalion ? (400 words)
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Outline the changes that Lucky and Pozzo
undergo during the course of the play Waiting for

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Godot (400 words)

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not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
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(a) Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
(b) Pegcen Mike
(c) Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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(d) The cheats in The Alchemist

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note :
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Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any
four from the remaining questions. All questions carry
equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
reference to the context in not more than
150 words each : 4x5=20
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(a) Let Faustus live in hell

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a thousand years,
A hundred thousand and
at last be saved !
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0, no end is limited to
damned souls !
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creature wanting soul ?

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that thou hast ?

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the question

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Whether 'tis nobler in the
mind to suffer

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The Slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune,
Or to take up arms against

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a sea of troubles,
And by opposing , end them.
To die , to sleep -

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No more.
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What a miracle she is ? Set
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all the eyes
Of court a - fire , like a burning glass,
And work 'em into cinders ;
when the jewels
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Of twenty states adorn thee,

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and the light

Strike out the stars; and that ,
when thy name is mentioned,
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Queens may look pale :

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(d) From this out I'll have

no want of company when all
sorts is bringing me their
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food and clothing ( he swaggers

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the way they'd set their eyes

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upon a gallant orphan cleft
his father with one blow to the

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breeches belt.

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and wanting you . I've got

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to hit out somehow . Nearly
four years of being in the
same room with you , night
and day , and I still
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can't stop my sweat break -
ing out when I see you
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doing -- something as ordinary

as leaning over an ironing
board.
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2. Discuss critically the modernity of Elizabethan 20

tragedy. (400 words)
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How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic
Comedy formula in A Midsummer Night's
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Dream ? (400 words)

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 3. Dr. Fanstus stands for the Renaissance man ? Is 20
this a fair assessment of his character ?
(400 words)

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OR

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It is through Subtle that Ben Jonson has exposed
and satirized the cheats and swindlers who
flourished in his age. ( 400 words )

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4. Bring out the full significance of the play within 20
play in Hamlet. (400 words)

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Make a critical assessment of Jimmy - Alison
relationship in Look Back In Anger.
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(400 words)

5. Examine critically The Play boy of the Western 20

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World as a Dark Comedy. (400 words)

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6. Examine the interaction of the two tramps, 20

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Estragon and Vladimir, in waiting for Godot.

(400 words)
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Is Shaw's Verbal humour only funny, or is it also

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instructive ? Illustrate your answer with examples

from Pygmalion. (400 words)
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 7. Write short notes on any two of the following
in 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a) Martyrdom in Murder in the Cathedral

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(b) Renaissance spirit in Elizabethan comedy

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(c) Lucky in waiting for Godot
(d) Helen in Dr. Faustus

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

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Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any
four from the remaining questions. All questions carry
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equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

reference to the context, is not more than
150 words each : 4x5=20
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(a) --- a s imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery
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nothing
A local habitation and name.
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(b) Give me that man

that is not passion's slave, and I will wear
him
In my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart,
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As I do thee--

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Of a new shop, and it like your worship;
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At corner of a street.
(Here's the plot on't)
And I would know by art,

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sir, of your worship,
Which way I should make my door, by
neeromancy,
And, where my selves. And, which

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should be for boxes.
And, which for pots.
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(d) I rage and shout my head off, and every one
thinks = poor chap!" or = What an
objectionable young man?" But that girl
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there can twist your arms off with her

silence ---
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to be there, I want to watch it. I want the

front seat.
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having.
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Vladimir : And it's not over.
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Estragon : Apparently not. --

Estragon : It's awful.
Vladimir : Worse than mine.
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Estragon : The circus.

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Elizabethan tragedy. (400 words)

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Bring out the role of the fairies in A Mid Summer

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Night's Dream. (400 words)

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3. Examine the Renaissance and Reformation 20

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strains in Dr. Faustus. (400 words)
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The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of a man

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obsessed with melancholy. Examine it critically.
(400 words)
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4. What makes the Alchemist so popular among 20
theatre groups both in the Elizabethan and the
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Modern age. (400 words)

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Examine the playboy of the Western world as an
extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.
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(400 words)
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Bring out the element of misogyny in Look Back In
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Anger. (400 words)

5. What is so unique about the structure of Waiting 20

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for Godot ? Illustrate from the text. (400 words)

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Bring out the role that the chorus plays in
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Murder in the Cathedral. (400 words)

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 6. Was Bernard Shaw a romantic? Is the element of 20

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romance in. the play in harmony with the
ideology of Pygmalion ? (400 words)

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Discuss, the unity of time, place and action in

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Elizabethan comedy. (400 words)

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7. Write short notes on any two of the following
in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a)
(b)
Horatio in Hamlet
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Significance of dream. A Midsummer Night's
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Dream.
(c) The Angry young men
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(d) The theatre of the Absurd

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory and any
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four from the remaining questions. All questions carry
equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

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reference to context in not more than 150 words
each : 4x5=20
(a) Her lips suck forth my soul:
See where it flies !
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Come, Helen, come, give me

my soul again.
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(b) Your vows to her and me,

put in two scales,
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will even weigh; and both as

light as tales.
(c) There is a ship now, coming
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from Ormus,
That shall yield him such a
commodity
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of drugs - This is the west, and

this the south ?

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 (d) If then last nature in thee

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bear it not,
Let not the royal bed of

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Denmark bell
Adien, adien, adien, remember me.
(e) Nearly four years of being in the same room

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with you, night and day, and I still can't
stop my sweat breaking out when I see you
doing something as ordinary as
leaning over an ironing board.

2.
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Discuss the main features of Elizabethan tragedy. 20
(400 words)
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OR
Critically examine Ben Jonson's comedy of
Humours (400 words)
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3. Analyse the structure of Hamlet. (400 words) 20

OR
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How does Jonson produce the illusion of reality

with respect to alchemy ? (400 words)
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4. Do you think tragic irresolution is the strength of 20

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Doctor Faustus ? (400 words)

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How did Shakespeare alter the Romantic Comedy
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formula in A Midsummer Nights Dream ?

(400 words)

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 5. Comment on themes and issues that show raises 20

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in Pygmalion ? (400 words)
OR

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Comment on the title, The Playboy of the Western
World. (400 words)

6. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an existentialist play. 20

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(400 words)
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Comment on Becket's silence after the fourth
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temptation in Murder in the Cathedral.
(400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following

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(200 words each) 2x10=20
(a) Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
(b) Theatre of Realism
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(c) Eliza
(d) Angry young man
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer Question No. 1, which is compulsory, and any

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four from the remaining questions. All questions carry
equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following poems/
passages with reference to the context in not more
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than 150 words : 4x5=20

(a) My words fly up, my
thoughts remain below :
words without thoughts never
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to heaven go.
(b) Helen, whose beauty caused
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Troy to burn, will do

the same for faustus ; the
immortality offered by
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the kisses of a demon lover is an

eternity in hell.
(c) A woman who utters such depressing and
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disgusting sounds has no right to be

anywhere - no right to live

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 (d) Was not all the knowledge of the Egyptians

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writ in mystic symbols ?
Speak not the scripture oft
in parallels ?

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(e) " and I not knowing at all there was
the like of you drawing nearer, like the stars
of God."

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2. Examine the role of the Renaissance in the growth 20
of Elizabethan drama (400 words)
OR

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Analyse the basic plot of romantic comedy
(400 words).
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3. Describe critically "To be, or not to be" in the 20
context of Shakespeare's Hamlet (400 words).
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What aspects of Jacobean society have been
depicted in Jonson's The Alchemist ? (400 words).
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4. Analyse the role of Mephistophilis in Doctor 20

Faustus (400 words).
OR
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Discuss the significance of the pastoral in A

Midsummer Nights Dream. (400 words)
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5. Discuss critically the Alison-Jimmy relationship 20

in Look Back in Anger. (400 words)
OR
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Discuss the comic conventions in Pygmalion

(400 words).

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 6. Analyse the structure of Waiting for Godot 20

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(400 words).
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What is the role played by the Chorus in Murder

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in the Cathedral ? (400 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the following :

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(200 words each) 2x10=20
(a) Lucky
(b) Miracle Plays

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(c) Pegeen
(d) Prick
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

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Note : Answer Question no. 1, which is compulsory and any four
from the remaining questions. All questions carry equal marks.

1. ntG
Critically comment on any four of the following 4x5=20
passages with reference to context, in not more
than 150 words each:
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(a) His faith is great; I cannot touch his soul;

But what I may afflict his body with I will
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attempt, which is but little worth.

(b) Why should you think that I should woo in

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scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears.
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Look when I vow, I weep; and vows-so born,

In their nativity all truth appears.
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 (c) To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether' tis nobler in the mind to suffer

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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

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Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them.

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(d) I'm only a common ignorant girl:
and in my station I have to be careful.
There can't be any feelings between the like

(e) 0, what else, sir?

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of you and the like of me.

And that you'll make her royal with the stone,

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And empress; and yourself king of Bantam.
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2. "The Alchemist" is a satire on human follies 20

and foibles." Discuss,
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OR.

Discuss 'Doctor Faustus' as essentially a

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Renaissance tragedy.
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3. The chorus in Murder in the cathedral, 20
reflects the growth in Thomas Becket.

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Discuss.

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OR.

What is the significance of 'dream' in the title

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of the play A Midsummer Night's Dream?

4.
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Discuss 'Hamlet' as a tragedy.
OR.
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Discuss The Play boy of the Western World
as a folk play.
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5. Does Shaw's use of myth contribute to the 20

enrichment of Pygmalion? Justify your
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answer.

OR.
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Discuss Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot

as a tragicomedy.
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 6. What is your understanding of the concept 20
of the 'angry young man' in the play Look

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Back in Anger? Explain.

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OR.

Critically examine the role of Renaissance

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in the growth of the Elizabethan Drama.

7.
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Write short notes on any two of the following 2x10=20
in not more than 200 words each:

(a) Claudius.
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(b) Bottom
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(c) Eliza
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(d) The Theatre of the Absurd

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
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any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
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1. Critically comment on any four of the following
passages with reference to context, in not more
than 150 words each : 4 x5=20
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(a) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid

him stretched out, and he split to the knob
of his gullet.
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(b) Have you not done tormenting me with

your accursed time ! ... One day, is that not
As

enough for you, one day he went dumb, ...

one day we were born, one day we shall die,
the same day, the same second ...
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(c) 0 God,
If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul
Yet, for Christ's sake, whose blood hath
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ransom'd me
Impose some end to my incessant pain.

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 (d) Such an act

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That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose

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From the fair forehead of innocent love
And sets the blister there.
(e) You do advance your cunning more and more.

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When truth kills truth, 0 devilish-holy fray !
These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er ?
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing

2.
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Write a note on Comedy of Humours with special
weigh.

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reference to Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
OR
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Attempt a critical appreciation of Doctor Faustus

as dramatic poetry.

3. Delineate the nature of the four temptations that

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Becket undergoes in the play Murder in the

Cathedral. 20
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OR
What are the common points between the main
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play and the Mechanicals' play in Shakespeare's

A Midsummer Night's Dream ?
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4. Write a critical note on Hamlet's attitude

towards Claudius in the play Hamlet. 20
OR
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Write an essay on imagery in J.M. Synge's

The Playboy of the Western World.

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class distinctions in his play Pygmalion ? 20

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OR

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Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an
Existentialist play.
6. Give a brief character-sketch of Jimmy in

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Osborne's Look Back in Anger. 20
OR

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Discuss the salient features of the mature
Elizabethan tragedy.
7. Write short notes on any two of the following in
2 x10=20
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not more than 200 words each :
(a) Beatrice
(b) Subtle
(c) Higgins
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(d) Eliot's views on Poetic Drama

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June, 2015

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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

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Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
reference to the context, in not more than 150
words each : 4 x 5=20
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(a) Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned ?

And canst thou not be sav'd.
What boots it then to think of God or heaven ?
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Away with such fancies, and despair;

Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub.
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(b) Such an act

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
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Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose

From the fair forehead of innocent love
And sets the blister there, make marriage vows
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As false as dicers' oaths - 0, such a deed ...

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 (c) From this out I'll have no want of company

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when all sorts is bringing me their food
and clothing (he swaggers to the door,

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tightening his belt), the way they'd set
their eyes upon a gallant orphan cleft his

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father with one blow to the breeches belt.

(d) It is not in time that my death shall be known;

It is out of time that my decision is taken

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If you call that a decision
To which my whole being gives entire consent.
me
I give my life
To the law of God above the law of Man.
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(e) But, you see, I was the only one who cared. His
family were embarrassed by the whole business.
Embarrassed and irritated ... We, all of us
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waited for him to die ... Every time I sat on the

edge of his bed, to listen to him talking or
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reading to me, I had to fight back my tears. At

the end of twelve months, I was a veteran ... you
see, I learnt at an early age what it was to be
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angry — angry and helpless. And I can never

forget it. I knew more about — love ... betrayal
... and death, when I was ten years old than you
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will probably know all your life.

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 2. Bring out the interplay of the Renaissance and

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Reformation strain in Elizabethan tragedy.
(450 words) 20

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OR
What is the basic plot of Romantic Comedy ? Why
does it end in feasting and dancing ? (450 words)

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3. Bring out the enormous significance of the
soliloquies in Hamlet. (450 words) 20

ntG
OR
Discuss The Alchemist as a classical tragedy in
which unities of time, place and action are strictly
followed. (450 words)
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4. Make a critical assessment of Jimmy - Alison
relationship from a feminist perspective.
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(450 words) 20
OR
Examine The Playboy of the Western World as an
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extravagant comedy and bildungsroman.

(450 words)
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5. Bring out the full significance of the title Waiting

for Godot. (450 words) 20
NO

OR
How is Pygmalion, an early 20th century play set
in England meaningful to you in India at the end
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of the millenium ? (450 words)

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 6. What is the role of the chorus in Murder in the

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Cathedral ? (450 words) 20

OR

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Discuss the gender issues in A Midsummer
Night's Dream. List the many instances of

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Shakespeare's sympathy for women in the play.
(450 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the

ntG
following : 2x10=20

(a) Dr. Faustus as the tragedy of a

Renaissance man
Lucky in Waiting for Godot
me
(b)
(c) Gertrude in Hamlet
(d) Prof. Higgins in Pygmalion
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NO
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

ntG
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
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1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
nm

reference to the context, in not more than 150

words each : 4x5=20

(a) Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

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Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies !

Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips,
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And all is dross that is not Helena !

(b) We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
OU

And set a double varnish on the fame

The Frenchman gave you; bring you, in fine,
together,
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And wager o'er your heads: he, being remiss,

Most generous and free from all contriving,
Will not peruse the foils; ...
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(c) The children of perdition are, oft-times

Made instruments even of the greatest works.

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Beside, we should give somewhat to man's nature,

The place he lives in, still about the fire,

uru
And fume of metals, that intoxicate

The brain of man, and make him prone to passion.

(d) ntG
But when it comes to business, to the life
that she really leads as distinguished from
the life of dreams and fancies, she likes
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Freddy and she likes the Colonel; and she
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does not like Higgins and Mr. Doolittle.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his
relation to her is too godlike to be altogether
agreeable.
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(e) Why, why, why, why do we let these women

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bleed us to death ? Have you ever had a

letter, and on it is franked 'Please Give
Your Blood Generously' ? Well, the
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Postmaster-General does that, on behalf of

all the women of the world ... There aren't
IGN

any good, brave causes left ... No, there's

nothing left for it, me boy, but to let yourself
be butchered by the women.

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Elizabethan England. (450 words) 20
OR

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How is a Romantic comedy different from a
comedy of humours ? (450 words)

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3. Bring out the nature of tragic conflict of Faustus.
(450 words) 20

ntG
OR
The tragedy of Hamlet is the tragedy of
irresolution and inaction. Do you agree with the
assessment ? (450 words)
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4. What role does Subtle play in Ben Jonson's The

Alchemist ? (450 words) 20
OR
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Dreams play an important role in A Midsummer

Night's Dream. Discuss with reference to the
play. (450 words)
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5. The Playboy of the Western World is neither

a comedy nor a tragedy. Discuss critically.
OU

(450 words) 20
OR
IGN

What is your understanding of the concept of the

"angry young man" and its implications in the
context of Look Back in Anger ? (450 words)
MEG-2 3 P.T.O.
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6. What is so commendable about the structure of
Waiting for Godot ? Illustrate with reference to

.co
the text. (450 words) 20
OR

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Attempt a feminist reading of the chorus in
Murder in the Cathedral. (450 words)

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following : ntG 2x10=20

(a) Use of myth in Pygmalion

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(b) The agony of Dr. Faustus
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(c) Puck in Midsummer Night's Dream

(d) Lucky in Waiting For Godot

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As
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

tG
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
en
1. Annotate any four of the following passages with
reference to the context, in not more than
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150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) 0, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven,

sig

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,

A brother's murder !
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(b) When I behold the heavens, then I repent,

And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis,
Because thou halt depriv'd me of those joys.
OU

(c) Why should you think that

I should woo in scorn ?
IGN

Scorn and derision never come in tears.

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 (d) I hit a blow on the ridge of his skull, laid him
stretched out, and he split to the knob of his

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gullet.

(e) Was not all the knowledge

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Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols ?
Speak not the Scriptures oft in parables ?

uru
2. Discuss the aspects of Jacobean society reflected
in Jonson's plays. 20
OR

3.
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Discuss The Alchemist as a satirical comedy.

Critically examine Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance

en
Tragedy. 20
OR
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Discuss the role played by the Mechanicsls,

especially Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's
Dream.
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4. Examine Hamlet as a revenge play. 20

OR
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Discuss Hamlet as a Shakespearean tragic hero.

5. Do you think Shaw's Pygmalion is critical of

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social snobbery and class distinctions ? Give a

reasoned answer. 20
OR
IGN

Examine The Playboy of the Western World as a

folk play.

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course of Waiting for Godot ? 20
OR

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What is the significance of the fourth temptation
in Murder in the Cathedral ?

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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following : (200 words each) 2x10=20

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(a) Freddy
(b) Estragon
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(c) Alison

(d) Ophelia
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

tG
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
any four from the remaining questions. All
en
questions carry equal marks.

1. Annotate any four of the following passages with

nm

reference to the context, in not more than

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) List, list, 0 list !

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If thou didst ever thy

dear father love ...
Revenge his foul and most
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unnatural murder ...

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(b) I keep looking back, as far as

I remember, and I can't think
What it was to feel young,
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really young.

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 (c) They know and do not know,

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what it is to act or suffer
They know and do not know,

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that action is suffering
And suffering is action.

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(d) Our youth and strength with
drinking the elixir,
And so enjoy a perpetuity
of life and lust.
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(e) Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul,
For disobedience to my sovereign Lord.
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2. Discuss T.S. Eliot's views on poetic drama. 20

OR
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Discuss the basic plot of Romantic Comedy with

reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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3. Critically analyze Hamlet's soliloquies in the

play. 20
OU

OR

What is the role played by the swindlers and the

IGN

Dupes in The Alchemist ?

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 4. "Homo, fuge : Whither should I fly ?" Analyze

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Dr. Faustus in the context of this statement. 20
OR

.co
Comment on the Titania-Oberon plot in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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5. What do you understand by the angry young
man' in the context of Look Back in Anger ? 20
OR

tG
What according to Shaw are the social
implications of the different modes of English
speech ?
en
6. In Waiting for Godot, the irrationality of human
experience is transferred to the stage. Comment. 20
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OR
Critically analyze the role of the chorus in
Murder in the Cathedral.
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7. Write short notes on any two of the

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following (200 words each) : 2x10=20

(a) Bottom
(b) Christy
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(c) Osric
(d) Time in Waiting for Godot
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

ntG
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.
Attempt any four of the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
me
1. Critically comment on any four of the following
passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) But you have no idea how frightfully

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interesting it is to take a human being and

sig

change her into a quite different human being

by creating a new speech for her.
(b) ... the spring, the summer,
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The childing autumn, angry winter, change

Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
OU

By their increase, now knows not

which is which.
And this same progeny of evils comes
IGN

From our debate, from our dissension;

We are the parents and original.
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 (c) 0, that this too too solid flesh would melt

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Thaw and resolve itself into a dew !
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

.co
His canon `gainst self-slaughter !

(d) Why then, belike we must sin, and so

consequently die.

uru
Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera,
"What will be shall be" ? Divinity, adieu !

(e)
ntG
They know and do not know, what is it to
act or suffer
me
They know and do not know that action
is suffering
And suffering is action.
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2. "The issues with which he chose to deal were

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among the most deeply ingrained preoccupations

of his age." Discuss with reference to Ben
As

Jonson's The Alchemist. 20

OR
OU

Tragic irresolution is the dramatic strength of

Doctor Faustus. Discuss.
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 3. Critically comment on Eliot's Christian

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perspective with reference to Murder in the
Cathedral. 20

.co
OR

Discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream as a

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romantic comedy.

tG
4. Discuss the play-within-the-play and metaphors
of theatre with reference to the plot of Hamlet. 20
en
OR
nm

Discuss the role of J.M. Synge in the Irish

Dramatic Movement with special reference to The
Playboy of the Western World.
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5. Discuss Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an

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existentialist play. 20

OR
OU

Was Shaw a romantic ? Is the element of romance

in Pygmalion in harmony with the ideology of
IGN

Bernard Shaw.

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 6. Characters in Look Back in Anger are enmeshed

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in class and gender issues. Discuss. 20

.co
OR

Examine the concept of the hero in modern drama

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with reference to the prescribed plays.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a) tG
The Theatre of the Absurd
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(b) Claudius
(c) The Comedy of Humours
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(d) Mephistophilis
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory.
Attempt any four from the remaining questions. All

tG
questions carry equal marks.
en
1. Critically comment on any four of the following
passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each : 4x5=20
nm

(a) Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,

No touch of bashfulness ? What, will you
tear. Impatient answers from my gentle
tongue ?
sig

(b) 'Tis the secret

Of nature naturized 'gainst all infections,
Cures all diseases coming of all causes;
As

A month's grief in a day; a year's in twelve;

(c) Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives'
tales.
OU

(d) But, you see, I was the only one who cared.
His family were embarrassed by the whole
business. Embarrassed and irritated.
IGN

(e) Suppose we repented "Our being born".

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 2. What aspects of Jacobean society are depicted in
Ben Jonson's The Alchemist ? 20

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OR

.co
Critically analyze Dr. Faustus as a Renaissance
tragedy.

uru
3. Discuss the theme of martyrdom in Murder in the
Cathedral. 20

OR

tG
Analyze Shakespeare's treatment of women in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
en
4. Revenge is the central theme of Hamlet. Discuss. 20
nm

OR

Discuss the farcical elements in The Playboy of

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the Western World.

5. What are the social implications of the different

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modes of English speech ? Answer with reference

to Shaw's Pygmalion. 20
OU

OR

Critically analyze Lucky's speech in Waiting for

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Godot.

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 6. Discuss Look Back in Anger in the context of the
angry young man'. . 20

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OR

.co
What do you understand by the 'modernity' of
Elizabethan tragedy ?

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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20
(a)
(b)
Hermia
tG
Eliot's 'The Three Voices of Poetry'
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(c) Widow Quin
(d) Horatio
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sig
As
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Term-End Examination

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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours
ntG Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

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any four from the remaining questions. All
nm

questions carry equal marks.

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

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passages with reference to the context, in not

more than 150 words each : 4x5=20
As

(a) To die, to sleep;

To sleep : perchance to dream :
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ay, there's the rub.

(b) Homo fuge! Whither should I fly ?

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If unto God, he'll throw me down to hell.

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 There are cruel steel traps lying about

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(c)
everywhere, just waiting for rather mad,

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slightly satanic and very timid little
animals. Right ?

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(d) They know and not know,
what it is to act or suffer
They know and not know, that
ntG
action is suffering
And suffering is action.
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(e) 0, good sir!
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There must be a world of ceremonies pass,

you must be bathed, and fumigated, first;
sig

2. Discuss the illusion of reality with regard to

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alchemy as the central motif in The Alchemist. 20

OR
OU

Dr. Faustus attempts to depart from a comedy of

evil to become a tragedy of human heroism. Do
IGN

you agree ? Give a reasoned answer.

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 3. Comment on the significance of the fourth

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temptation in Murder in the Cathedral. 20

.co
OR
How does Shakespeare alter the romantic comedy
formula in A Midsummer Night's Dream ?

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4. "Claudius rather than Hamlet is the protagonist
of the play." Do you agree ? 20

OR
ntG
"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about
the instinctive desire to rebel against tradition."
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Discuss.
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5. Analyse the comic conventions in Pygmalion. 20

sig

OR
Comment on the structure of Waiting for Godot.
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6. What is the significance of the title of the play

Look Back in Anger ? 20
OU

OR
Critically examine the role of the Renaissance in
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the growth of Elizabethan drama.

MEG-2 3 R T.O.
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7. Write short notes on any two of the
following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

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(a) Morality Play

(b) Mephistophilis

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(c) Bottom

(d) Colonel Pickering

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sig
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MEG-2 : BRITISH DRAMA

Time : 3 hours
ntG Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and

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any four from the remaining questions. All
questions carry equal marks.
ign

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each : 4x5=20
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(a) To be, or not to be : That is the question —

Whether %is nobler in the mind to suffer
UA

The slings and arrows of outrageous

fortune,
Or to take up
NO

against a sea of
troubles,
And, by opposing, end them ? To die, to
IG

sleep —
No more ...
MEG-2 1 P.T.O.
 (b) But you have no idea how frightfully

m
interesting it is to take a human being and

.co
change her into a quite different human being
by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up

the deepest gulf that separates class from class

uru
and soul from soul.

Ho11 hath no limits, nor is circumscribed

ntG
(c)
In one self-place; for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be :
me
(d) Have you not done tormenting me with your
accursed time ! ... One day, is that not enough
for you, one day he went dumb ... one day we
ign

are born, one day we shall die, the same day,

the same second ...
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(e) If we shadows have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,
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That you have but slumbered here

'While these visions did appear.
NO

And this weak and idle theme,

No more yielding but a dream,
IG

Gentles, do not reprehend;

If you pardon, we will mend :

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the spirit of his age. Comment. 20

.co
OR

Discuss Dr. Faustus as a tragedy.

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3. Examine critically the idea of martyrdom in
Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. 20

ntG
OR
"Celebrating love within the institution of
me
marriage." Is it an apt description of
A Midsummer Night's Dream ? Discuss.
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4. Discuss Hamlet as a revenge play. 20

OR
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"The Playboy of the Western World is a play about

rebellion. Comment.
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5. Critically comment on the character of Eliza in

Pygmalion. 20
NO

OR
Discuss Waiting for Godot as a play that presents
IG

the existentialist crisis of modem man.

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 6. Gender and class conflict are central to Look Back

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in Anger. Discuss. 20

.co
OR

Elizabethan tragedy focuses on character, not

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circumstance. Comment.

7. Write short notes on any two of the

ntG
following in not more than 200 words each : 2x10=20

(a) The Split Personality of Doctor Faustus

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(b) Experimentation in Modern Drama

(c) The Theatre of the Absurd

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(d) Comic Spirit in Modern Drama

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NO
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MEG 2 : BRITISH DRAMA
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Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

me
Note : Answer question no. 1, which is compulsory and
attempt any four from the remaining questions. All
ign

questions carry equal marks.

1.. Critically comment on any four of the following

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passages, with reference to the context, in about

As

150 words each : 4x5=20

(a) 0 that this too, too solid flesh would melt,

OU

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
N

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter !

IG

(b) I shall make a duchess of this

draggle-tailed guttersnipe.
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(c) Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damn'd ?
Canst thou not be sav'd ?

.co
Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub.
Now go not backward, Faustus; be resolute :

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Why waverest thou ?

(d) They know and do not know, what it is to

act or suffer.

ntG
They know and do not know, that action is
suffering
And suffering is action. Neither does the
actor suffer
me
Nor the patient act. But both are fixed ...

(e) Will you believe antiquity ? Records ?

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I'll shew you a book, where Moses and his

sister,
And Solomon have written of the art;
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Ay, and a treatise penn'd by Adam —

As

2. Discuss the differences between Shakespearean

OU

comedy and Jonsonian comedy with reference to

the prescribed plays in your course. 20
N

OR
IG

Critically examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of

human heroism.
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3. Discuss the notions of martyrdom and temptation
with reference to modern times in Eliot's Murder

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in the Cathedral. 20

OR

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Comment on the use of the play within the play
in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

4. ntG
Discuss the significance of Hamlet's soliloquies
with reference to the soul-searching he
me
undergoes. 20

OR
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The Playboy of the Western World illustrates the

changed concept of comedy in the modern world.
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Discuss.
As

5. Pygmalion examines class and gender difference

OU

in a comic perspective. Critically comment. 20

OR
N

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot presents

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before us the existentialist crisis of modern man.

Comment.
iAtra D T fl
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6. Critically examine the concept of the angry young
man with reference to the character of Jimmy in

.co
Look Back in Anger. 20

OR

uru
Examine the concept of tragic flaw with reference
to Elizabethan tragedy.

7.
ntG
Write short notes on any
following in about 200 words each :
two of the
2x10=20
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(a) Laertes-Hamlet Clash

(b) Renaissance Comedy

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(c) Class Conflict in Shaw's Drama

(d) Poetic Drama

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Note: Answer question no. 1 which is compulsory.
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Answer any four from the remaining questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
nm

1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each: 4X5=20
sig

) 'Tis now the very witching time of night,

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When churchyards yawn and hell

Itself breathes out contagion to this world.

OU

Now could I drink hot blood, and do

Such bitter business as the bitter day

IGN

Would quake to look on

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 (b) Now, Faustus, must

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Thou needs be damned and canst thou not

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be saved

Despair in God, and trust in Belzebub:

Now go not backward : no, Faustus be

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resolute.

(c) One day, when I'm not longer spending my

tG
days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book
about us all It'll be recollected in fire and
en
blood. My blood.
(d) We have only to conquer
nm

Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Now is the triumph of the cross.

(e) Women upset everything. When you let them
sig

into your life, you find that the woman is

driving at one thing and you're driving at
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another.
2. The Alchemist is a satire on human follies and
OU

foibles. Discuss. 20

OR
IGN

Examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of the

aspirational Renaissance man.

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that Beckett confronts.

OR

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The Mechanicals' play is inextricably related to
the main plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew !

Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter ! O God !
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O God !

(b) When I behold the heavens, then I repent,

And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis,
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Because thou hast depriv’d me of those joys.

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with reference to the Christian faith.

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Cathedral. 20
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comedy in Pygmalion by Shaw.
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from conventions available to Renaissance
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(a) To be or not to be : that is the question;

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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The slings and arrows of outrageous

fortune,
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Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them ?
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(b) I think a woman fetching a man’s slippers

is a disgusting sight ... I think a good deal
more of you for throwing them in my face ...
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who cares for a slave ?

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And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis

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persons towards follies and foibles. Discuss with

reference to The Alchemist. 20
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Tragic irresolution is the dramatic strength of

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3. Trace the development of Beckett’s martyrdom in

T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. 20
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Romantic Comedy formula in A Midsummer
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Night’s Dream.
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abstracting and generalizing habit over the
practical.’’ Discuss with reference to the play as a
revenge tragedy. 20

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establishing new conventions for modern theatre.
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between the individual and society in the modern

age. Critically comment. 20
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Discuss the salient features of Elizabethan

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tragedy with reference to the prescribed plays.

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one day I went blind ...... one day we are

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neurosis and relate it to the predicament of the
modernist hero.

(b) What boots it then to think of God or 3. Critically examine the role of the chorus in
heaven ? Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. 20

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150 words each : 45=20
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(a) There are things in this comedy of Pyramus

and Thisbe that will never please. First,
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Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself,

which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you
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that ?

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what it is to act or suffer
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They know and do not know,

that acting is suffering

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(d) I’m in the fire and I’m burning, and all I

want is to die ! ... But what does it
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matter  this is what he wanted from me !

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(e) Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down

in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger
puts on the forceps. We have time to grow
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old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a

great deadener.
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human heroism. 20

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of this statement. 20

5. Critically comment on Lucky’s speech in Waiting

for Godot. 20
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Discuss Pygmalion as a play that denounces

social snobbery and class distinctions. 20

6. ‘‘Look Back in Anger functions as a site for a

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discussion of class and/or gender issues.’’ Discuss. 20

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Critically examine the role of the Renaissance in

the growth of Elizabethan drama. 20
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four questions from the remaining questions.
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All questions carry equal marks.

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1. Critically comment on any four of the following

passages with reference to the context in about

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150 words each : 4×5=20

(a) Homo fuge ! Wither should I fly ?

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If unto God, he’ll throw me down to hell.

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(b) ........ I’ll .......... be burning candles from

this out of the miracle of God that have

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brought you from the south to-day.

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If had the primal eldest curse upon’t,

A brother’s murder !

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Examine Doctor Faustus as a study of conflict

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with reference to Christian faith.

3. What is the significance of the fourth

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temptation in Murder in the Cathedral ? 20

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Critically comment on the role of the

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Mechanicals in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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4. Discuss the revenge motif in Hamlet. Give

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about the distinctive desire to rebel against

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tradition.” Do you agree ? Give a reasoned
answer.

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in Dootille similar to the one he has brought
about in Eliza ? 20
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Discuss Beckett’s presentation of the absurd

predicament in human life in the play Waiting
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for Godot.
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6. Comment critically on the title of the play Look

Back in Anger. 20
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Write a note on the element of modernity in

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Elizabethan tragedy.

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and any four from the remaining questions.

All questions carry equal marks.

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1. Critically comment on any four of the following

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passages with reference to the context in not

more than 150 words each : 4×5=20

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(a) It is not in time that my death shall be

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known :

It is out of time that my decision is taken

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If you call that a decision

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To which my whole being gives entire

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consent

I give my life to the Law of God above the

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Law of Man.

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all of us waited for him to die. Every time I
sat on the edge of his will you believe
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antiquity ? Records ?

(c) I will show you a book, where Moses and

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his sister,
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And Solomon have written of the art;

Ay, and a treatise penon’d by Adam.

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(d) The children of perdition are, off-times

made instruments even of the greatest
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works,
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Beside, we should give somewhat to man’s

nature.
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The place he lives in, still about the fire.

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And fumes of metals, that intoxicate the

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passion.

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Gentles, do not reprehend;

If you pardon, we will mend.

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2. Bring out the salient features of revenge

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tragedy in Elizabethan England ? 20

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3. Discuss the role and impact of soliloquies in

Hamlet. 20
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4. Critically evaluate the relationship between

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Jimmy and Alison. 20

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5. Critically analyze the role of chorus in the play

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Murder in the Cathedral ? 20

6. Discuss the Alchemist as a classical tragedy. 20

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(a) Gertude in Hamlet

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(b) Lucky in Waiting for Godot
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(c) Reformation

(d) Comic spirit in Modern Drama

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NO
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