C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2017 [Third Paper]

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2017

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) 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!

    

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C.U. English Honours PART-II Question Paper 2016 [Third Paper]

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2016

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) Show how the relationship between King Edward II and Queen Isabella determines the movement of Marlowe’s play Edward II.                                                                                                              16

Or

(b) Write a critical commentary on the murder scene (Act V, Sc. V) in Edward II.                     

2. (a)Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of the ‘real world’ and the ‘dream world’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.                       16

Or

(b) Analyse the significance of the role of Puck n Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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

a)      Sweet prince, I come; these, these thy amorous lines

Might have enforc’d me to have swum from France,

And, like Leander, gasp’d upon the sand,

So thou would’st smile, and take me in thine arms.

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

Anagnorisis, Chorus, Denouement, Three Unities. 

 Group-C

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

5. (a) Do you agree with the view that Sheridan’s The Rivals is, simply, a comedy of character, not a comedy of plot? Give reasons for your answer.                                             16

Or                                                                                                            

(b) Examine the significance of the Faulkland-Julia episode in The Rivals.

6. (a) Macbeth is transformed from tyrant into a tragic hero by the end of the play. Discuss.                                            16

Or

(b) Comment on the significance of the Porter scene (II. Iii) in Macbeth.                   16

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

a)      Then yield thee, coward,

And live to be the show and gaze o’th’time:

We’ll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,

Painted upon a pole, and underwit,

‘Here may you see the tyrant.’

Or

b)      Had he not resembled

My father as he slep’t of had done’t

c)       Zounds sirrah! The lady shall be as ugly as I choose : she shall have a hump on each shoulder; she shall be crooked as the Crescent; her one eye shall roll like the Bull’s in Cox’s Museum.

 Or

d)      O, there’s nothing to be hope for from her! She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile.

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List Of Important Questions From PAPER-III of C.U. English Honours

If you are trying to get hold on the list of important question from various books in Third Paper of C.U. English Honours Syllabus then check out this list.

Students should understand that most of the books prescribed by the Calcutta University (C.U.) for all the three years of English Honours course had been in circulations for a really long time. After each decade some of these books are changed but not all of it. The University of Calcutta had recently revised its syllabus in 2010. And no new questions are formed at all. If there is a new question in the exam, then it is just same question which is being 'asked in a different manner'. Then why they do it?

To test your knowledge and 'question interpretation skills'.

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Most of the C.U. English Honours books have just three to five major questions which are repeated after a gap of two years.

Take for example 'Rape of the Lock'.

There are few major important questions like :

• Rape of the Lock as mock-epic.
• Character of Belinda
• The Eighteenth Century Society
• Game of Ombre
• Toilette Scene
• Use Of Supernatural Machinery

So these questions are used repeatedly after a gap of few years. Just have a look on the last year's Question Paper and prepare for those which were not included in it.

Here are the list of all C.U. English Honours questions Paper-III from 2010 to 2015.

Edward II

·         Analyse the Murder Scene in Edward II and show how far it ‘moves pity and terror’ necessary in a tragedy.         (2011)

·         “Character is destiny”- Is this true of Edward II? Justify your answer. (2011)

·         Marlowe’s Edward II is a study of the ‘irony of kingship’. Do you agree? Give reasons. (2012)

·          Comment on Edward II as a history play.                      (2012)

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

·         Comment on Marlowe’s portrayal of Isabella and examine the significance of her role in Edward II.                 (2013)

·         Examine critically how in Edward II Marlowe has transformed the chronicle play into tragedy.                                                  (2014)

·          Bring out the dramatic significance of the Abdication Scene (Act V, Sc. i) in Edward II.  (2014)         

·         Critically consider Marlowe’s portrayal of Younger Mortimer in Edward II.  (2015)

·         Comment on the Marlowe’s treatment of the irony of kingship in Edward II. (2015)                     

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

·         Write a note on Shakespeare’s use of soliloquies in Macbeth.      (2011)

·         Examine the use of dramatic irony in Macbeth. (2011)

·         Analyse  A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a romantic comedy.       (2012)

·          Critically examine Shakespeare’s use of the ‘real world’ and ‘the dream world’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream . (2012)

·         Examine the role of Puck in  A Midsummer Night’s Dream.          (2013)

·         Analyse the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (2013)

·         Comment on how the woodland setting in  A Midsummer Night’s Dream contributes to the theme of the play.     (2014)

·          Examine the significance of the title in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.(2014)

·         Comment on the significance of the role of the Athenian artisans in a A Midsummer Night’s Dream with special reference to Nick Bottom.             (2015)

·         Examine the theme of love in its various dimensions in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.(2015)

The Rivals

·         Do you think that there is an uneasy mixture of satire and sentimentality in The Rivals? Justify your answer.      (2012)

·         Bring out the dramatic function of the Faulkland-Julia sub-plot in Sheridan’s The Rivals. (2012)

·         Comment on the Sheridan’s presentation of women with reference to any two characters in The Rivals.                             (2013)

·         Is The Rival a comedy or a farce? Justify your answer.   (2013)

·         Examine the significance of the Faulkland-Julia episode in The Rivals.                  (2014)

·         Sheridan’s The Rival was intended as a mockery of ‘the Sentimental Muse’. Discuss. (2014)

·         Would you consider the title of Sheridan’s The Rivals an appropriate one? Justify your response.                                                          (2015)                                                  

·          Comment on the role played by any two of the women characters in The Rivals. (2015)

Macbeth

·         Write a critical note on the Banquet Scene in the play Macbeth.              (2012)  

·         Examine the role of the witches in Macbeth. Do you think that they are the driving spirit behind Macbeth’s crime?       (2012)

·         How far is Lady Macbeth instrumental in bringing about the tragic end of Macbeth? Justify your answer.                             (2013)

·         Comment on the significance of The Porter in Act II Scene ii of Macbeth.(2013)

·         Analyse Shakespeare’s treatment of the supernatural in Macbeth. (2014)          

·         Critically comment on the role of Macduff in Macbeth. (2014)

·         Analyse the Sleepwalking scene (Act V, Sc. i) in  Shakespeare’s Macbeth and bring out its dramatic significance.                               (2015)

·         Critically comment on the responses of Macbeth and Banquo to the Witches’ prophecy.             (2015)

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