Porter Scene In Macbeth: C.U. English Honours Part-II Notes

Porter Scene In Macbeth Conservative critics object to the idea of inserting a comic scene within a tragedy and consider it as a stylist as well as an aesthetic defect. But the comic scenes are useful and serve certain purposes. It can act as a break in the tragic momentum and prepare the audience for a richer store of tragic action. It can also reflect a more realistic appraisal of the life by bending comic and tragic elements. On the other...

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William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey Theme: C.U. English Honours Notes

Write note on the theme of loss and recompense in Wordworth’s Tintern Abbey. “Tintern Abbey” is generally regarded as William Wordsworth’s partial account of the balance-sheet of maturity, whose every fabric is a remembered perception given way to reflection. He charts the course of the developing sensibilities much as he did in “Ode on the limitations of immortality”, recollected in childhood, though in a much greater detail. The elemental...

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2013 [Fourth Paper]

2013 ENGLISH-HONOURS Fourth 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.       Answer any one of the following questions: (within 600 words)    16x1                                                                                                a)     ...

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2013 [Third Paper]

2013 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) Critically comment on the Death-Scene in Edward II.                                                                          ...

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Edward II-The Role Of Isabella: C.U. English Honours Part-II Notes

Comment on the portrayal of Isabella and examine the significance of her role in Edward II A general charge against Marlowe’s dramatic artistry is that his women are not dramatically living. In fact his earlier plays are rather deprived of substantial feminine characters. But in his play Edward II, he has presented a female character as an important link in the whole action. This is Isabella, the queen, who is much instrumental to the tragic...

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