Group-A
(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.1 and 2)
1. (a) Estimate the dramatic importance of Gaveston and Spenser in Marlowe’s Edward II. 16
Or
(b) Comment on the dramatic structure of Edward II. 16
2. (a)Comment on the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 16
Or
(b) A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a romantic comedy built on the theme of love in its various dimensions. Discuss.
3. Explain any one of the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 300 words) 8x1
a. Lay me in a hearse,
And to the gates of hell convey me hence;
Let Pluto’s bells ring out my fatal knell,
And hags howl for my death at Charon’s shore.
Or
b. Be it ounce or cat or bear,
Pard or boar with bristled hair,
In thy eye that shall appear,
When thou wakest, it is thy dear.
Group-B
4. Write on any two of the following literary terms within 200 words each: 5x2
Antagonist, Catastrophe, Comic Relief, Hamartia.
Group-C
(Word Limit 600 words for Question No.5 and 6)
5. (a) Is The Rivals a comedy or a farce? Answer with reference to the text. 16
Or
(b) Critically analyse the roles played by any two of the minor characters in Sheridan’s The Rivals.
6. (a) Attempt a critical analysis of the ‘Banquet Scene (Act III, Sc. Iv) in Macbeth and show how it throws light on the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. 16
Or
(b) Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth. 16
7. Explain the following with reference to the context. (Word Limit 350 words) 9x2
a) To find the mind’s construction in the faces
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.
Or
b) Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.
c) Am not I a lover; aye, and a romantic one too? Yet do I carry everywhere with me such a confounded farago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country Miss's brain?
Or
d) There, sir, an attack upon my language! what do you think of that?–an aspersion upon my parts of speech! was ever such a brute! Sure, if I reprehend anything in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!