Waiting for Godot from the perspective of the theatre of the Absurd

    

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-2)

BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT 

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Course Code: MEG-02 

Assignment Code: MEG-02/TMA/2022-23 

Max. Marks: 100

1. Discuss Waiting for Godot from the perspective of the theatre of the Absurd.

Ans:

Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, is a significant example of the theatre of the Absurd. This genre of drama emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by exploring the meaninglessness and absurdity of human existence. The play features two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a mysterious figure named Godot in a barren landscape with a single tree. The play lacks a traditional narrative arc and is characterized by repetitive actions and conversations that never lead anywhere.

The theatre of the Absurd rejects traditional dramatic structures, and Waiting for Godot exemplifies this rejection. The play consists of two acts, but there is no clear indication of when one act ends and the other begins. The characters do not experience any significant change or development over the course of the play. The play is full of meaningless and repetitive dialogue, with characters often repeating themselves, and their conversations often devolve into nonsensical exchanges...........

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Philip Larkin : an ‘uncommon poet of common man

   

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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Course Code: MEG-01 

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6. Philip Larkin has been called an ‘uncommon poet of common man’. Would you agree?

Ans:

Philip Larkin is often described as an 'uncommon poet of common man' because of his ability to write about the everyday experiences of ordinary people in a way that is both accessible and profound. His poetry often explores themes of love, death, and the passage of time, and he has a distinctive style that is characterized by his use of plain language and his avoidance of grandiose or flowery rhetoric.

One of the ways in which Larkin is able to connect with readers is through his use of concrete details and vivid imagery. For example, in his poem "The Whitsun Weddings," Larkin describes a train journey through the English countryside, and he uses specific, tangible details to create a sense of place and atmosphere. He writes:..........

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The Reformation and trace between the Renaissance and the Reformation.

  

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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5. What was the Reformation? What relations can you identify and trace between the Renaissance and the Reformation.

Ans:

The Reformation was a religious movement that began in the 16th century, initially in Germany, which challenged the authority and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Led by figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, the movement sought to reform the church by promoting a return to what its leaders saw as the original teachings of Christianity as found in the Bible.

The Renaissance and the Reformation are two interconnected movements that occurred during the same time period. The Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement that began in Italy in the 14th century and spread throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was marked by a renewed interest in classical learning, a focus on individualism, and an emphasis on humanism and secularism..........

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Attitude to Nature Coleridge expresses in the Ode to Dejection & ways this attitude differs from that of Wordsworth and from his own earlier attitude - IGNOU MEG British Poetry Assignment 2022-23

 

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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Course Code: MEG-01 

Assignment Code: MEG-01/TMA/2022-23 

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4. What attitude to Nature does Coleridge express in the Ode to Dejection? In what ways does this attitude differ from that of Wordsworth and from his own earlier attitude?

Ans:

A four-line passage from the "Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence," initially published in Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Old English Poetry" in 1765, serves as the poem's opening line. The collection of poems by Percy had a significant impact on romantic poets of the nineteenth century. The speaker in Coleridge's lines claims to have witnessed the old Moon cradling the new Moon in her arms and is terrified. He worries that a devastating storm may come next. Nature exhibits these odd premonitions.

The significance of these sentences is that Coleridge desires that such a storm enter his life in order to awaken him from the current state of spiritual drowsiness. The poet finds sleep uncomfortable because.........

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Pre- Raphaelites and the characteristics of the movement. - IGNOU MEG British Poetry Assignment

 

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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Course Code: MEG-01 

Assignment Code: MEG-01/TMA/2022-23 

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3. Who were the Pre- Raphaelites and what were the characteristics of the movement? Critically appreciate any one poem of this age/movement.

The Pre-Raphaelite movement began with painting rather than being limited to literature. Young British painters formed a group in 1848 in response to what they perceived as the uninspired artwork of the Royal Academy.

Apart from Dante Gabriel Rossetti,The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood comprised Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais. They were all under 25. The painter James Coilinson. the painter and critic F.G. Stephens, the sculptor Thomas Woolner, and the critic William Michael Rossetti (Dante Gabriel's brother joined them by invitation. William Dyce and Ford Madox Brown were also notable practitioners of the Pre-Raphaelite style in painting.

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A comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs - IGNOU MEG British Poetry Assignment

 

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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Course Code: MEG-01 

Assignment Code: MEG-01/TMA/2022-23 

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2. Draw a comparison between the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion as wedding songs. Answer with suitable examples. 

Spenser's two major nuptial songs are the Epithalamion and the Prothalamion. Both wedding poems discuss the celebration of marriage, but they approach the subject in quite different ways, both in terms of style and intent. The analyses will consequently heavily emphasise the formal characteristics of the poems, much like with the shorter poems. 

The Greek poetess Sappho is thought to have employed the literary form known as the "epithalamion," which dates back to classical Greek literature. Originally used to describe the song sung in honour of .............

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike

 

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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But hail thou Goddes, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,

 

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BRITISH POETRY 

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All human things are subject to decay, And when Fate summons monarchs must obey.

 

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BRITISH POETRY 

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My love is now awake out of her dreams (s), and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG-1)

BRITISH POETRY 

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A consonant during the articulation of which the vocal cords vibrate is called a VOICED consonant.

 MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

1. A consonant during the articulation of which the vocal cords vibrate is called a ________________ consonant.
2. A consonant during the articulation of which there is no velic opening or the oral cavity is closed then it is called a ____________________ consonant. 
3. The difference between a plosive and an affricate is that during the articulation of plosives the release of air is __________________ and during the articulation of affricates the release is __________________. 
4. Allophones are __________________of the same __________________. 
5. Vowels are more _________________ than consonants. There is little or no __________________in the production of vowels. 
6. ________________ is a sound which is present in your mother tongue but not in English. (use IPA to indicate the sound) 
7. __________ is a voiceless bilabial plosive and ___________ is a voiced alveolar lateral phoneme in English. (use IPA to indicate the phoneme)

8. A speech sound which patterns like a consonant but is phonetically a brief vowel such as /w/ in win is called a _____________. 9. Fricatives are produced by a ________________ in the vocal tract so as to ______________. 10. The _______________ vowels serve as points of reference for identifying real vowels in actual languages.

Answers :

1. voiced, 

2. voiceless, 

3. blocked, Open, 

4. sounds, set of sounds, 

5. sounds, construction, 

6. Jargon,

7. b, d, 

8. syllabic speech sound, 

9. hissing, produces sound, 

10. cardinal.

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Case, thematic roles and theta theory

                                     MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

4. Discuss case, thematic roles and theta theory by citing relevant examples?

Ans. The Notion of Thematic Role

To understand the concept of thematic role let us consider two sentences, (A) The door opened (B) The guard opened the door. In sentence A, "the door' acts like a subject whereas in sentence B "the door becomes the direct object*. So that we can say that the door is in thematic role in respect of both sentences. However the NP the guard' is the thematic

role AGENT who in real sense performed the action of opening the door.

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How is inflectional morphology different from derivational morphology?

  MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

3. How is inflectional morphology different from derivational morphology? Discuss by giving examples..

Ans. The Inflectional Morphology of English
Let us discuss in detail the inflection morphology of English by describing the paradigm of all regular parts

of speech.

Inflection Morphology of English Nouns:

English nouns can be categorised into two major categories

proper nouns, and common nouns.

Proper nouns are those which have a  unique identity and common nouns are

those which refer to a person, place, or a thing.

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Various borrowings in English language

 MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

2. Languages enrich and evolve through borrowings. Discuss the various borrowings in English language by giving examples.

Ans. The abstract noun borrowing refers to the process of speakers adopting words from a source language into their native language. "Loan" and "borrowing" are of course metaphors, because there is no literal lending process. Borrowing is a consequence a- tulip tigel/h Borrowing is a consequence of cultural contact between two language communities. Borrowing of words can go in both directions between the two languages in contact, but often there is an asymmetry, such that more words go from one side to the other..For Example, the Germanic tribes in the first few centuries A.D. adopted numerous loanwords from Latin as they adopted new products via trade with the Romans. Few Germanic words, on the other hand, passed into Latin. English borroWed it Vocabulary-from various different languages. Let us have a look at the brief description of different languages which helped English to build up its modern vocabulary base.

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Generative grammar

 MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

Generative grammar

Ans. The generative approach towards the description of language was introduced in 1957 with the publication of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure. Generative approaches include meaning in the study of language, and look for patterned relationships between "deep" structures of meaning and "surface" structures of linguistic forms actually used by the speaker.

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Code mixing vs code switching

 MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

Code mixing vs code switching

Ans. Mixing Codes

Code-mixing simply refers to the mixing of two or more languages or language varieties in a speech. Some scholars use the term *code-mixing especially in the study of syntax, morphology, and other formal aspects of languages. Others assume more specific definitions of code-mixing but the definitions may be different in the subfields of linguistics, education theory, communication, etc

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Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

  

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

ii Types of Negation and its interaction with Scope

Ans. Negation as a Logical Operator: In English negation has its impact on the structure and the complete meaning of the sentence simultaneously. Words used as negation are: no, not and n't: indefinite pronouns like nothing and nobody; adverbs like nowhere and never; adjective no as in 'no one', , 'no money', etc.; conjunction like neither and nor.

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The differences between the major characters in The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

 MEG – 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

5. Bring out the differences between the major characters in The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

 

Ans. Spark's characters are interiorised. This means that they are involved in a search for the self that accommodates both personal fulfilment and political or social claims. Personal obsessions guide those characters. They turn their lives into channels of self-righteous imagination and bring about their destruction. Miss Brodie is one of the characters who is an eccentric spinster and school teacher. 

She has fine judgement of character and specializes in organising the lives of the Brodie set. She dislikes team spirit which contravenes individual freedom. She thinks hereself that she can seek the beginning and end of the proteges. She resists all questions which question her unorthodox methods . Her pupils also carry this impression. They are unquestioning and uncritical, absorbing all that she says. These characters take a hostile stand against those who intrude in the classroom and appear to change the ways of Miss Brodie.

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What role do Aziz, Fielding and Godbole play in A Passage to India?

   MEG – 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

4. What role do Aziz, Fielding and Godbole play in A Passage to India?

 

Ans. Alam Friedman describes the theme of personal relations in Forster's novel as a 'Marriage of True Minds' (the phrase is borrowed from Shakespeare's famous poem). He says, " A marriage of true minds is held out like a promise always a little out of each. The obstacles of circumstances, the trials of good faith, the emotional separation which threaten to destroy a final consummation the growing crucialness to the novel's moral resolution of whether they will or will not be united at the end all this and much more makes of their friendship the structural and ritual equivalent to the marriage of hero and heroine in the traditional novel. At first the marriage of Adela Quested and Ronny Haslop, which Mrs Moore has come to India to aid and abet, seems to play the usual structural role, which the issue of marriage regularly plays in organising events and meanings.

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Do you think the title of Dickens’ Great Expectations is appropriate?

   MEG – 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2021 - 2022

3. Do you think the title of Dickens’ Great Expectations is appropriate? Give reasons for your answer.

 

Ans. It is because it is a novel about the maturation both physically and psychologically of the main character Pip. Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens, one of Victorian England's most acclaimed and popular novelists. He wrote this novel comparatively late in life, just after A Tale of Two Cities. In Great Expectations, we see Dickens at his most experimental. The novel was serialized- published in installments in a magazine-from 1860- 61, when the Victorian era was at its height and the rapid social change was accompanied by anxiety. Dickens used his platform as a popular author to educate his audience about social issues.

 

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