1. Annotate any four of the following passages with reference to the context, in not more than 150 words each:

List, list, O list
If thou didst ever thy
dear father love ...
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder ...

I keep looking back, as far as
I remember, and I can't think
What it was to feel young,
really young.

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

Our youth and strength with
drinking the elixir,
And so enjoy a perpetuity
of life and lust.

Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul,
For disobedience to my sovereign Lord.

2. Discuss T.S. Eliot's views on poetic drama.

OR

Discuss the basic plot of Romantic Comedy with reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream.

3. Critically analyze Hamlet's soliloquies in the play.

OR

What is the role played by the swindlers and the Dupes in The Alchemist?

4. "Homo, fuge Whither should I fly?" Analyze Dr. Faustus in the context of this statement.

OR

Comment on the Titania-Oberon plot in
A Midsummer Night's Dream.

5. What do you understand by 'the angry young man' in the context of Look Back in Anger

OR

What according to Shaw are the social implications of the different modes of English speech

6. In Waiting for Godot, the irrationality of human experience is transferred to the stage. Comment.

OR

Critically analyze the role of the chorus in Murder in the Cathedral.

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

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Christy

Osric

Time in Waiting for Godot