IGNOU SOLVED ASSIGNMENTS & STUDY NOTES

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Does modern critical perspective help us understand Wuthering Heights better or does it just confuse us?

MEG – 03: British Novel

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on blocks (1-9)

Max. Marks: 100

2. Does modern critical perspective help us understand Wuthering Heights better or does it just confuse us? Discuss.

Answer.: Any serious discussion of Wuthering Heights must consider the complex point of view that Brontë chose. Lockwood tells the entire story, but except for his experiences as the renter of Thrushcross Grange and his response to Nelly and the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, he repeats what Nellie tells him; occasionally she is narrating what others have told her, e.g., Isabella's experiences at Wuthering Heights or the servant Zillah's view of events.

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Events and happenings in Fielding’s Tom Jones

MEG – 03: British Novel

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on blocks (1-9)

Max. Marks: 100

1. As a reader from the Third World can you relate to the events and happenings in Fielding’s Tom Jones? And would you agree that ‘Tom Jones is so simple that it makes no great demand on you as a reader’? Discuss with reasons.

Answer.: Fielding’s best-plotted novel, his masterpiece, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, probably was begun in 1746. When the novel finally appeared, it was “enthusiastically received” by the general public, though not by two groups, the Tory journalists, who strongly disliked Fielding for supporting the House of Hanover, and Richardson and his group, who saw Fielding as a “filthy and immoral writer,” even to the point of slandering Fielding himself, particularly for “marrying his cook.”

The qualities that set Murder in the Cathedral apart from other plays.

MEG – 02: British Drama

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

Max. Marks: 100

7. What are the qualities that set Murder in the Cathedral apart from other plays?

Answer.: Murder in the Cathedral is a fictionalized verse drama of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket written by TS Eliot and first performed in 1935. Written and performed at a time when fascism was on the rise in continental Europe, the play considers the agency of the individual in resisting temporal authoritarianism. In life, Thomas Becket was a close personal friend and chancellor of Henry II, though he had decided to devote his life to the (Catholic) Church from a relatively young age.

During this time Becket enjoyed the earthly pleasure of wealth and influence in the state and even led contingents of knights too fight alongside the king. It was ultimately Henry who suggested that the vacant Archbishopric of Canterbury Cathedral (the highest Church office in England) go to Becket, even though he initially refused.

The relevance of The Playboy of the Western World to the present time.

MEG – 02: British Drama

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

Max. Marks: 100

5. Comment on the relevance of The Playboy of the Western World to the present time.

Answer.: The best way of answering this question is to think about the themes of this excellent play and to consider if any of them are still relevant to today's society given the fact that society has changed to such a great extent in the intervening years. This will help us to establish whether this play does have themes that are universal and whether it has a message that applies to us today.

Unfortunately, if we take this approach and examine the theme of social conformity, we can actually see how little the world and the people in it have changed over the years. The vast majority of the characters in this play act according to the norms and customs of society and show a complete inability to make decisions for themselves.

The dominant quality of Hamlet’s character.

MEG – 02: British Drama

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

Max. Marks: 100

3. What do you think is the dominant quality of Hamlet’s character? Illustrate.

Answer.: Hamlet is an enigma. No matter how many ways critics examine him, no absolute truth emerges. Hamlet breathes with the multiple dimensions of a living human being, and everyone understands him in a personal way. Hamlet's challenge to Guildenstern rings true for everyone who seeks to know him: "You would pluck out the heart of my mystery." None of us ever really does.

The conundrum that is Hamlet stems from the fact that every time we look at him, he is different. In understanding literary characters, just as in understanding real people, our perceptions depend on what we bring to the investigation. Hamlet is so complete a character that, like an old friend or relative, our relationship to him changes each time we visit him, and he never ceases to surprise us. Therein lies the secret to the enduring love affair audiences have with him. They never tire of the intrigue.

The characteristics of Shakespearean comedy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

MEG – 02: British Drama

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

Max. Marks: 100

2. Identify the characteristics of Shakespearean comedy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Answer.: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of his most popular and enduring comedic plays. As with most Elizabethan comedies, this play is a light- hearted romp through many types of humor, all ending happily in the final scene. Also common to this era, comedy is centered on marriage and relationships, and a happy ending means uniting the courting couples.

High comedy can also be called situational comedy, in which the source of humor is the situation of mistaken identity or miscommunication. Low comedy involves silliness, inappropriateness, and sometimes references that can be taken as vulgar or sexual. Slapstick is physical humor: action rather than dialogue. Shakespearean comedy is the fast-paced, witty banter we see in all of Shakespeare's comedic plays: clever dialogue and play-on-words, often delivered in a dramatic manner.

Character of Dr Faustus as a tragic figure

MEG – 02: British Drama

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

Max. Marks: 100

1. Discuss the character of Dr Faustus as a tragic figure.

Answer.: Understanding of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy, Dr. Faustus, can be framed in terms of the Renaissance philosophy and the Elizabethan tragedy, which takes a different turn on some points from the Aristotelian tragedy, for instance such as the Elizabethan tragedy's requisite death of the tragic hero. Dr. Faustus demonstrates the Renaissance philosophy that pits the dichotomy of good, angelic humanity against evil, depraved humanity. Marlowe's play also is a model of the Elizabethan tragedy.

Marlowe constructed the character of Dr. Faustus to represent within himself both characteristics of the Renaissance view of humanity as divinely good and hellishly evil. First, Dr. Faustus is presented as a scholar of all things including divinity, the highest Renaissance scholarly discipline. Then, Faustus is shown as dissatisfied with the limitations of humanity and grasping for unlimited knowledge, which is a Biblical allusion to Adam and Eve who ate of the Tree of Knowledge. Throughout the play, Faustus descends to lower and lower planes of knowledge in his pursuit for the "power" and "omnipotence" that comes from knowledge.

Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy.

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Q5. Would you consider Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically.

Answer. This poem is a very strong expression of resentment against the male domination of women and also the violence of all kinds for which man is responsible. The speaker expresses her rage against her 'daddy', but daddy himself is a symbol of male.

As well as a symbol of more general agents and forces like science and reason, violence and war, the German and theirs Hitler, and all other “inhuman” agents of oppression in the world. The speaker is also a symbol of female and the creative force, humility, love and humanity in general.

Milton reflects on blindness in Sonnets 19 & 23.

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Q4. Would you agree that Milton reflects on blindness in Sonnets 19 & 23? Give a reasoned answer.

Answer. In his poem "On His Blindness," sometimes referred to as "When I consider how my light is spent" (the first line of the poem), John Milton reflects on his gradual loss of his sight and what it means for his work and his faith.

The poem begins with these lines:

WHEN I consider how my light is spent

E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,

And that one Talent which is death to hide,

Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

My true account, least he returning chide (lines 1–6)

Comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs.

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Q3. Attempt a comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs.

Answer. Spencer's Epithalamion and Prothalamion both highlight the theme of marriage. However, the Epithalamion celebrates Spencer's own marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, while the Prothalamion is a nuptial song celebrating the respective marriages of Elizabeth and Katherine Somerset (the daughters of the Earl of Worcester) to Henry Gilford and William Peter.

The Epithalamion celebrates the groom and bride's preparations on the day of their marriage. Both the Epithalamion and Prothalamion highlight the importance of nymphs to the wedding preparations. In the Epithalamion, the nymphs cover the bride's path to the bridal bower with flowers. They protect the sanctity of the woods and the lakes so that the bride will have a perfect wedding day. Likewise, in the Prothalamion, the nymphs gather a profusion of flowers in order to braid Katherine and Elizabeth's bridal crowns. Spencer makes full use of pagan images of fertility in both poems.

The salient features of Romanticism with illustrations

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Q2. Highlight the salient features of Romanticism with illustrations from the poems prescribed for study.

Answer. The Romantic revival refers to a period from the late eighteenth century through 1832 in which poets, writers, and artists across Europe, but particularly in Germany and England, reacted against the Neoclassicism that preceded them. Neoclassical poetry was rooted in Greek and Roman models and used strict forms, such as carefully metered rhyming couplets in poetry.

It valued balance and emotional restraint and tended to concentrate on the deeds of great men. The Romantics rebelled against all this, seeking a greater emphasis on emotions, experimenting with freer verse (or artistic) forms, and focusing attention on common people and nature. In poetry, the movement is most strongly associated with Goethe in Germany and Wordsworth and Coleridge in England.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?

Answer. These lines are from John Donne’s poem ‘The Good-Morrow’. ‘The Good- Morrow’, published in Donne’s 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, is written from the point of view of an awaking lover and describes the lover’s thoughts as he wakes next to his partner.

These are the opening lines of the poem. It has a reference to a Catholic legend. It also refers to the Seven Sleepers, the Catholic legend of seven Christian children, persecuted for their faith during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius, who fled to the shelter of a cave where they slept for more than 200 years. Donne, one of six or seven children and a baptized Catholic during a time of strong anti-Catholic sentiment from both the populace and the government, would certainly have been familiar with the story.

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Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif, I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,

MEG – 01: British Poetry

ASSIGNMENT 2019 - 2020

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes

For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif,
I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,

These lines have taken from 'The prologue of the nun's priest ' by Geoffrey chaucer.
After the Monk has told his tale, the Knight pleads that no more tragedies be told. He asks that someone tell a tale that is the opposite of tragedy, one that narrates the extreme good fortune of someone previously brought low. The Host picks the Nun’s Priest, the priest traveling with the Prioress and her nun, and demands that he tell a tale that will gladden the hearts of the company members.

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Monday, December 03, 2018

My Father’s Hands My father’s hands are beautiful, they can fix this moth’s wing

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

5. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

My Father’s Hands

My father’s hands

are beautiful, they can

fix this moth’s wing and make machines

they can mend the fuse when the world

goes dark

can make light swim and walls jump in around me again

I can see my mother’s face again.

[The rest of the poem is in the question paper, just using the first part only]

i Pick out the verbs that describe what the father’s hand do.

The father's hand can fix the wings of a moth, make machines, mend the fuse during blackouts, make light swim and wals jump....................

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IGNOU SOLVED ASSIGNMENTS & STUDY NOTES

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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Does modern critical perspective help us understand Wuthering Heights better or does it just confuse us?

Events and happenings in Fielding’s Tom Jones

The qualities that set Murder in the Cathedral apart from other plays.

The relevance of The Playboy of the Western World to the present time.

The dominant quality of Hamlet’s character.

The characteristics of Shakespearean comedy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Character of Dr Faustus as a tragic figure

Sylvia Plath’s Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy.

Milton reflects on blindness in Sonnets 19 & 23.

Comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs.

The salient features of Romanticism with illustrations

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?

Now, sire”, quod she, “When we flee fro the bemes For Goddess love, as taak som laxative. Up peril of my soule and o lif, I counseille yow the beeste, I wol nat lye,

Monday, December 03, 2018

My Father’s Hands My father’s hands are beautiful, they can fix this moth’s wing

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