Past Paper Drama 2019 | M.A. English Part I (PU) | Eureka Study Aids

Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is COMPULSORY. All questions carry equal marks. 

1. Explain the following with reference to the context any THREE of the following stanzas. 

(i) For our city, as you yourself can see, 

is badly shaken --- she cannot raise her head

above the depths of so much surging death

Disease infects fruit blossoms in our land, 

disease infects our herds of grazing cattle, 

makes women in labour lose their children. 

(ii) I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, 

And chase the Prince of Parma from our land

and reign sole king of all the provinces; 

Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, 

(iii) But I beseech you if it be your pleasure and most wise consent

(As partly I find it is) that your daughter, 

At this odd-even and dull watch o'the night

Transported with nor worse or better guard, 

(iv) There's comfort in't 

Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd, 

As mine, against their will. Should all despair

That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind

Would hang themselves. 

(v) Oh! It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on whaat one shouldn't read. 

2. In Sopholes' hands European tragedy gains an artistic maturity to be followed as a tradition. What is your point of view? Analyze the play "Oedipus Rex" by referreing to the statement. 

3. In "Dr. Faustus" Marlowe exposes the darker side of Renaissance? Prove or refure the statement by referring to the text. 

4. Othello is more of a victim of his racial inferiority than jealousy. Prove or refute the statement. 

5. For the study of human nature, comedy is as profound as tragedy. Prove or refute the statement by referreing to "The Winter's Tale". 

6. It is more of language and less of situation which creates humour in Oscar Wilde. Prove or refute the statement by referring to "The Importance of Being Earnest". 

7. Why is Oedipus considered an ideal tragic hero? Discuss with reference to Aristotelian view of ideal tragic hero.