C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2014 [Third Paper]

2014

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) Examine critically how in Edward II Marlowe has transformed the chronicle play into tragedy.                                                                                                                                                                        16

Or

(b) Bring out the dramatic significance of the Abdication Scene (Act V, Sc. i) in Edward II.                     

2. (a) Comment on how the woodland setting in  A Midsummer Night’s Dream contributes to the theme of the play.                                                                                                                                         16

Or

(b) Examine the significance of the title in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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

a)      Then so am I, and live to

do him service:

But while I have a sword,

A hand, a heart,

I will not yield to any

Such upstart.

 Or

b)      And as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

Group-B

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

Climax, Comic Relief, Hamartia, Three Unities.

Group-C

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

5. (a) Examine the significance of the Faulkland-Julia episode in The Rivals.                       16

Or                                                                                                            

(b)Sheridan’s The Rival was intended as a mockery of ‘the Sentimental Muse’. Discuss.

6. (a) Analyse Shakespeare’s treatment of the supernatural in Macbeth.                                                   16

Or

(b) Critically comment on the role of Macduff in Macbeth.                               16

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

a)      ‘Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,

As the Weird Women promis’d; and, I FEAR,

Thou play’dst most foully for’t; yet it was said,

It should not stand in thy prosperity;

Or

b)      – Then fly, false Thames:

And mingle with the English epicures:

The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,

Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with fear.

c)       Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; -- and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries;--

Or

d)      What, you have been treating me like a child! – humouring my romance! and laughing, I suppose, at your success ! 

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