IGNOU MEG 2 Question Paper June 2019

MEG 02

JUNE 2019

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

(a)To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether'tis nobler in the mind to sufferTheslings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Orto take arms against a sea of troubles,Andby opposing end them? To die: to sleep;Nomore

(b)But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human beingand change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech forher. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soulfrom soul.

(c) Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.

(d) Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second

(e) If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended—
 That you have but slumbered here
 While these visions did appear.
 And this weak and idle

Q. 2Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist attempts to capture the spirit of his age. Comment

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Discuss Dr. Faustus as a tragedy.

Q. 3Examine critically the idea of martyrdom in Eliot's Murder in Cathedral.

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“Celebrating love within the institution of marriage.” Is it an apt description of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Discuss.

Q. 4Discuss Hamlet as a revenge play.

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“The Playboy of the Western World”  is a play about rebellion. Comment.

Q. 5 Critically comment on the character of Eliza in Pygmalion

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Discuss Waiting for Godot as a play that presents the existentialist crisis of modern man.

Q. 6 Gender and class conflict are central to Look Back in Anger. Discuss.

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Elizabethan Tragedy focuses on character, not circumstance. Comment.

Q. 7 Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 200 words each

(a) The Split Personality of Doctor Faustus

(b) Experimentation in Modern Drama

(c) The Theatre of Absurd

(d) Comic Spirit in Modern Drama

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