Existentialist elements in Estragon and Vladimir

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QNO 6:  Bring out the existentialist elements in Estragon and Vladimir.

                 Writing about Existentialism and Waiting for Godot, Andre Gunthers has given a somewhat hopeful and positive interpretation of man’s existentialist existence. In the twentieth century there appears to be nothing to do any longer since “actions” have become more and more questionable …because millions and millions of people who are in fact still active, increasingly feel that they are acted upon: that they are active without themselves deciding on the objective of their action, without even being able to discern the nature of their objective or because they are aware that their activity is suicidal in its objective. 

                 In short, ..........................................

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Imagery and symbolism in Look Back in Anger

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QNO 5: Comment on the imagery and symbolism in Look Back in Anger.

The symbol that seems very important in the play is that of the animals and the game in which Jimmy and Alison impersonate them. They even have a toy bear and squirrel kept upon a chest of drawers, and Alison points them out to Helena who thinks this is proof of Jimmy’s being ‘fey’ or mad. An extension of the game is the comparison of the couple’s home to a zoo or a menagerie.

                This animal symbol works in two ways- first..........

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The Alchemist as a comedy

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QNO3:  Evaluate Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist as a comedy.

              The appreciation of Jonson’s comedy (Johnsonian Comedy) has been complicated by (1) confining his contribution to the virtual invention of the genre, Comedy of Humours, (2) undue emphasis on his classical erudition and (3) alleging the want of Shakespearian spontaneity of spirit. Moreover, Johnson’s occasional observations on the nature and function of comedy, dispersed, as they are, throughout his plays do not offer a consistent conception of comedy except through an over simplification. Jonson’s defining of the impact.............

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Character sketch of Hamlet

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QNO2:  Write in your own words a character sketch of Hamlet

                             Hamlet has fascinated audiences and readers for centuries, and the first thing to point out about him is that he is enigmatic. There is always more to him than the other characters in the play can figure out; even the most careful and clever readers come away with the sense that they don’t know everything there is to know about this character. Hamlet actually tells other characters that there is more to him than meets the eye—notably, his mother, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—but his fascination involves much more than this. When he speaks, he sounds as if there’s something important he’s not saying, maybe something...............

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Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down in the hole,......

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e.    Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave –

diggers puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries.

But habit is a great deadener.

These lines are taken from the play, “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett.

               These are Vladimir's quote in reference to something that Pozzo said as he was leaving the stage. Pozza expresses his extreme frustration with..............

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It is not in time that my death shall be known; It is out of time that my decision is taken

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d.    It is not in time that my death shall be known;

It is out of time that my decision is taken

These lines are taken from T.S Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral “

                The most significant element of the passage is the way it uses the term "time". In the ancient Greek of the New Testament........

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I hit a blow on the ridge of his Skull, laid him stretched out, and he split to the knob of his gullet

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c. I hit a blow on the ridge of his Skull, laid him stretched out,

and he split to the knob of his gullet.

These lines are taken from The Playboy of the Western World which is Synge’s masterpiece, capturing his major themes in their most complex form.

                    Christy points out that his father...............

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Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh: Your vows to her and me, put in two scales

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b) Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:

Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,

Will even weigh; and both as light as tales.

 

            These lines are taken form William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

In another part of the wood, Oberon wonders if Titania has awoken from her slumber. He's hoping that she laid her eyes on a vile beast. Enter Puck with the answer. He tells Oberon that............

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See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop: Ah, my Christ

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QNO1: Explain the following passages with reference to their contexts and supply brief critical comments where necessary :

                          a)   See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!

           One drop would save my soul, half a drop: Ah, my Christ.

                These lines come from Faustus’s final speech, just before the devils take him down to hell. It is easily the most dramatic moment in the play, and Marlowe uses some of his finest rhetoric to create an unforgettable portrait of the mind of a man about to carry off to a horrific doom.  

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Blends in English morphology ( MEG 04 ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE)

Blending is one of the five minor processes which are used in English for coining new words.

They are words coined by elements from two other words.

            We have all come across such words in advertisements, since advertisers and copy-writers are rather found of this device for creating new brand-names and their descriptions. Thus, a new two-wheeler is called ‘Fantabulous’, which blends elements from the two words.........................


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The scope of Quantifiers (MEG 04 ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE)

Quantifiers are expressions that indicate quantities, hence the term “quantifier”. Thus, the numerals one, two, twenty, etc., form a special class of quantifier expression; and so called “quantitative adjectives” such as all, some, many, any, each, etc., also belong to the class of quantifiers. Also included in the class of quantifiers are so-called “indefinite pronouns “such as someone, something, everybody, anything, since these also convey something about the number or proportion of persons and objects.

            The scope of quantifiers comes when two quantifiers expression can interact with each other. An example is the following sentence:

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