British drama in the twentieth century

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

7. Write an essay on British drama in the twentieth century.

Drama was introduced to England from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose.

Twentieth Century British theatre is commonly believed to have started in Dublin, Ireland with the foundation of the Irish Literary Theater by William B.Yeats,  Lady Gregory, and  J.M.Synge. (Greenblatt 1843) Their purpose was to provide a specifically Celtic and Irish venue that produced works that “stage[d] the deeper emotions of Ireland.” (The Abbey's) The playwrights of the Irish Literary Theater (which later became the Abbey Theater, as it is known today) were part of the literary revival and included:  Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn, to name a few. In England the well-made play genre was being rejected and replaced with actors and directors who were committed to bringing both reform and a serious audience to the theatre by appealing to the younger............

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The framework of a romance with unromantic elements thrown into the play Pygmalion

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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QNO 6:  Do you think that Pygmalion has the framework of a romance with unromantic elements thrown into it? Illustrate your answers with examples.

  'Pygmalion' is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. It tells the story of the transformation of a young girl's life.

Pygmalion is a wonderful play about Eliza Doolittle.  Eliza is a young educated girl working in the flower district of London, England.  On night she runs into Professor Henry Higgins, a noted professor of phonetics.  Higgins is intrigued by her broken speech and low station in life.  He believes he can tell all he needs to about a person based on his speech ............

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Theme of The Playboy of the Western World

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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QNO 5:  What according to you is the theme of The Playboy of the Western World?

The playboy of The Western World, first written and performed just over one hundred years ago still addresses many themes that are relevant in today's society. The play is set in rural western Ireland, still under British rule and still in relative poverty; the play is set over just one day.

 The general themes that are addressed in the play are; feelings of community, the importance of fantasy and reality, Heroism, love, authority and morality. All of which can be applied to today's society.

The playboy of The Western World has....................

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The Alchemist as a satire

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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QNO4: Examine The Alchemist as a satire .

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he appreciation of Jonson’s comedy (Johnsonian Comedy) has been complicated by confining his contribution to the virtual invention of the genre, Comedy of Humours, undue emphasis on his classical erudition and 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 of his satiric comedy is further highlighted through attention to the Prologue to The Alchemist. Johnsonian Comedy is examined in its literary social and economic dimensions.     ...................................

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Marlowe’s use of irony in Doctor Faustus

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

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QNO2:  Comment on Marlowe’s use of irony in Doctor Faustus.

I

rony is the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Marlove’s Doctor Faustus has many ironies in it.

To begin with, Doctor Faustus holds a sort of balance of opposites between morality and heroic strains of tragedy. This oppositional balance is not simply thematic or intellectual but is the core of drama, and particularly that of tragedy, defined as irony. Marlow follows the dramatic form of the play but the point of Marlow‘s irony is a dilemma on the part of.........................

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Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time?

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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a.    Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time?

These lines are taken from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The play, Waiting for Godot, is at its heart, a play about what defines life and death.  What does it mean to be alive?  Existentially alive?  Vladimir's quote is in reference to something that Pozzo said as he was leaving the stage just a page or two before this.  Pozza expresses his extreme frustration with Vladimir's questions about time and when things happened.  Pozzo proclaims.

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d. They know and do not know, what it is to actor suffer They know and do not know, that action is suffering And suffering is action.

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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a.    They know and do not know, what it is to actor suffer

They know and do not know, that action is suffering

And suffering is action.

These lines have been taken from the Drama “Murder in the Cathedral” is written by T.S.Eliot. Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T.S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935.

In these lines the author says........................

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Oh that! Mere alliteration, Mrs. Pearce, natural to a poet.

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

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a.    Oh that! Mere alliteration, Mrs. Pearce, natural to a poet.

These lines are taken from Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. The lines are spoken by Professor Higgins when Mrs. Pearce told him ‘’ only this morning sir, you applied it to your boots, to the butter and to the brown bread.”

            

Mrs. Pearce, the lady who works in the house of Higgins asks him not to...................... 

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To be or not be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them.

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2016-17

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a.    To be or not be, that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing, end them.

These lines are taken from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. "To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene".

As one of Shakespeare's all-time famous quotes, Hamlet's words have stood the test of time and are often quoted even today in both academia and pop culture. In the beginning of his fourth, and best known, soliloquy Hamlet muses ..................

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The four most important learner variables in the learning of a second language

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-04/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

1.    What in your view are the four most important learner variables in the learning of a second language? Discuss

There are four key learner variables in the learning of a second language; 1) Age, 2) Sex, 3), intelligence, 4) aptitude.

1.      AGE

Most people, including some psychologists and linguists, believe that children are better at learning second languages than adults. The human brain loses its plasticity after puberty. Child relearns their language after injury..........................

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Indianization” of English and the devices used for the process of Indianization.

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-04/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

7.    What do you understand by the term “Indianization” of English? What are the devices used for the process of Indianization.

It is useful to describe Indianisms in more than one way. In terms of lexical structure and grammatical structure the transfer may result in collocation and/or grammatical deviations. The transfer of Indianism in Indian English may involve equivalence of formal items of L1 and L2 in two ways.

a)      It may be translation of an Indian item, or

b)      It may be a shift based on an underlying Indian source item

Translation: Translation may be defined as establishing ...........................

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Characteristics of human language that are absent in other animal systems of communication

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

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Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-04/TMA/2016-17

Max. Marks: 100

What are the characteristics of human language that seem to be absent in other animal systems of communication? Discuss

One of the best ways to understand what human language is to compare it with other systems of animal communication and try to understand the similarities and differences between the two.

Use of sound signals

The use of sound signals is perhaps the most obvious characteristic of human language. But this feature is neither unique to human beings nor all-important. It is not unique to human as a lot of other animals also use sounds for communication. And it is not all-important because human being can transfer language to visual symbols (as in the case of sign language, or writing) and to tactile symbols (as in the case of Braille). So, this characteristic is of little use in distinguishing human communication from animal communication

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