a) And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende, They hooly blissful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan what they Were seeke

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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN

ENGLISH

Term-End Examination

June, 2015

MEG-1: BRITISH POETRY

Time: 3 hours                                                  Maximum Marks: 100

Note: Answer question no. 1 and any four from the remaining ones.

1.      Explain with critical comments any two of the following passages with reference to their contexts :

a)      And specially from every shires ende

Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende,

They hooly blissful martir for to seke,

That hem hath holpen whan what they

Were seeke.

            

           These lines are from The Canterbury Tales, which is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life, and even less about his education, but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer’s original plan for The Canterbury Tales was for each character to tell four tales, two on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. But, instead of 120 tales, the text ends after twenty-four tales, and the party is still on its way to Canterbury. Chaucer either planned to revise the structure to cap the work at twenty-four tales, or else left it incomplete when he died on October 25, 1400. Other writers and printers..........

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Bring out the salient features of Plato’s attack on poetry

ASSIGNMENT

(For July, 2015 and January, 2016 Sessions)

LITERARY CRITICISM & THEORY: MEG – 05

1.    Bring out the salient features of Plato’s attack on poetry.

Ans:

Plato, the great Greek philosopher who possesses stubborn views on art, poet and poetry unleashes a series of attacks on poetry. His views and opinions are largely mentioned in his Republic. Most of the opinions of Plato are objections to poetry. Plato definitely believed that poetry had power, and that power made people want to imitate what they saw in art. This sounds bad for him because of his metaphysical beliefs

According to Plato, the nature of universe is imitation (mimesis). He believed reality consists of various layers. The top layer is made up of ideas, and all the lower levels imitate those ideas. Plato regarded mimesis as mere representation, not expression which is creative. Plato argued that the poet who describes a chair in his poem is not true to the original. He believed in the existence of an absolute reality. It consists of ideal things, of which individual objects in this world are nothing but reflections or imitations. The painter or poet who imitates these individual objects is imitating and imitations and so producing something which is still further removed from reality. Eg: a chair exists firstly as idea, secondarily as an object of craftsmanship and thirdly as object of representation in art. Thus mimesis is thrice removed from reality.

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Existentialist elements in Estragon and Vladimir

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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,......

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

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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