C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2012 [Third Paper]

2012

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

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.1 and 2)

1. (a) Marlowe’s Edward II is a study of the ‘irony of kingship’. Do you agree? Give reasons.        16

Or

(b) Comment on Edward II as a history play.                     

2. (a)Analyse  A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a romantic comedy.                                                    16

Or

(b) Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of the ‘real world’ and ‘the dream world’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream .

3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 300 words)         8x1

a)      Things base and vile, holding no quantity

Love can transpose to form and dignity

 Or

b)      The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

Group-B

4. Write on any two of the following literary terms within 200 words each:          5x2

Catharsis, Soliloquy, Aside, Catastrophe.

Group-C

(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.5 and 6)

5. (a) Do you think that there is an uneasy mixture of satire and sentimentality in The Rivals? Justify your answer.     

Or                                                                                                                                               16

(b)Bring out the dramatic function of the Faulkland-Julia sub-plot in Sheridan’s The Rivals.   16

6. (a) Write a critical note on the Banquet Scene in the play Macbeth.                                        16

Or

(b) Examine the role of the witches in Macbeth. Do you think that they are the driving spirit behind Macbeth’s crime?                                                                                                                                                            16

7. Explain the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 350 words)                      9x2

a)      Had I died an hour before this chance

I had lived a blessed time.

Or

b)      Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Or

c)       O mercy!-I’m quite analysed for my part!...

Or

d)      Madam! A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree, of diabolical knowledge!...

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