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BACHELOR'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

Term-End Examination
June, 2016
ELECTIVE COURSE ENGLISH
BEGE-I07: UNDERSTANDING DRAMA

Time hours Maximum Marks 100
Note: Answer all the questions.

1. Write notes on any two of the following (250 words) 2x10=20

Interludes

Three unities

Tragi-Comedy

Sutradhar

2. Critically examine, with reference to the context, any two of the following: 2x10=20

Remember March, the ides of March remember:

Did not great Julius bleed for justice's sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab And not for justice

Chris..... Chris, I did it for you, it was chance and I took it for you. I am sixty-one years old, when would I have another chance to make something for you

One can excuse what happened the first time. But what about the second time Both Juneja and you invested equal amounts of money. There was one factory. The profit and loss occurred in the same factory. Yet, fate favoured him and not you

We are told you are Luo, you are Kalenjin, you are Kamba, you are Maasai, you are Kikuyu. You are a woman, you are a man, you are this, you are that, you are the other.

Answer any three of the following questions 3x20=60

3. Bring out the author's attitude to society reflected in Trial of Dedan Kimathi.

4. Critically analyse the character-portrayal of Savitri in Mohan Rakesh's Halfway House.

5. Discuss the function of minor characters like Casca, Portia and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar.

6. Does Kate know about Keller's guilt in All My Sons? What is the impact of her action on other characters

7. Comment on the ending of the play Ghashiram Kotwal.

8. Write notes on any two of the following (250 words)

Sutradhar

Dialogue in drama

Farcical elements in The Refund

One act play

9. Critically examine, with reference to the context, any two of the following:

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I will come back. I will come back to Poona. I'll show you my strength It will cost you Your good days are gone! I am a Kanauj Brahmin, but I've become a shudra, a criminal, a useless animal. There is no one to stop me now, to mock me, to make me bend, to cheat me. Now I am a devil.

In any case I set you free from all your obligations. You are not to feel bound in the slightest way, any more than I shall. There must be perfect freedom on both sides. See, here is your ring back. Give me mine.

thanks, thanks, monseigneur, I.....I..... (he sobs) Ah! a fool, a child to cry, but somehow you have made me feel that..... that it is just as if something had come into me as if I were a man again and not a wild beast.

10. Discuss 'The Refund as a critique of modern school system. OR What is the importance of the title of the play A Doll's House

11. Discuss the role of Fate in Macbeth.

OR

Critically examine the statement 'Bishop is a true Christian with his infinite patience, his humility and his forgiving nature'.

12. Discuss Arms and the Man as an anti-war play.

OR

Write short notes on any two of the following (200 words each)

Mrs. White's character in 'The Monketj's Paw.

The three witches in Macbeth

The convict's change of heart in 'The Bishop's Candlesticks

Satire in Ghashiram Kotwal