C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2011 [Third Paper]

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2011
ENGLISH-HONOURS
Third Paper
Full Marks-100

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group-A
1. (a) Analyse the Murder Scene in Edward II and show how far it ‘moves pity and terror’ necessary in a tragedy.                                                                                                                                                       16
Or
(b) “Character is destiny”- Is this true of Edward II? Justify your answer.                       
                     
2. (a)Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of soliloquies in Macbeth.                                                       16
Or
(b) Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth.

3. (a)’Twelfth Night is comedy built on the principle of contrast’. Discuss with suitable examples from the text.                                                                                                                                                                 16
Or
(b) Analyse the character of Feste and the significance of his role.

4. (a)Would you regard The School For Scandal as a belated specimen of Comedy of Manners? Justify your answer.                                                                                                                                                       16
Or
(b) Critically analyse the curtain-scene in The School Of Scandal.

Group-B
5. Answer any one of the following:                                                                        4 x 4
        I.            Anagnorisis
      II.            Antagonist
    III.            Climax
    IV.            Hamartia
      V.            Denouement
    VI.            Hubris
  VII.           Dramatic Irony
VIII.          Foil
    IX.           Chorus
      X.            Poetic Justice

Group-C
6. Write brief notes on any ten of the following question:                                   2 x 10
a)      ”This will be god news to the common sort
                 What is the good news?”           
b)      ‘Fair blows the wind for France’
Name the speaker. What is he referring to?
c)       “All tremble at my name – and I fear none.”
Why does the speaker say this?
d)      “My heart is an anvil unto sorrow,
Which beats upon it like the Cyclops hammer.”
Explain the allusion.
e)      “What hand are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes.”
Why does the speaker say this?
f)       “Men must not walk too late”
Who is the speaker? Explain the line.
g)      Who needs the ‘divine’ more than the physician? When was this comment made?
h)      What is the first apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches?
i)        “Time, thou must untangle this, not I”- What is the speaker unable to ‘untangle’?
j)        How does Sir Toby plan to frighten Viola/ Cesario?
k)      Why does the clown say that ‘they praise me and make an ass of me’?
l)        “Run after the same peevish messenger.” Who is the ‘peevish-messenger’? Who gives this order?
m)    “Madam, you have done me wrong,
Notorious wrong”?
How has the speaker been wronged?
n)      Why is Sir Peter vexed with Lady Teazle?
o)      Why, according to Joseph Surface, is Snake not to be trusted?
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