Total No. of Questions : 5) [Total No. of Printed Pages : 5 Roll No. M/Sem II/230 M. A. (Semester II) Examination 2015-16 ENGLISH Paper No. Course-7 : ENG-203: Drama-II (Shakespeare) Time : 3 hours Full Marks : 70 (Write your Roll No. at the top immediately on the receipt of this question paper) The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks Answer all Sections Candidates are required to write their answers in their own words as far as practicable Section—A Long Answer Type questions to be answered in about 500 words each : 1. How is romantic love depicted in Twelfth Night? What points does Shakespeare seem to be making about romance? 12 D/6(319)—600 (Turn Over)3. D/6(319) (2) Or Discuss how Henry IV, Part I is in many ways a study of contrasting characters, including Harry, Hotspur, Falstaff and King Henry. In Act I, scene 5 Hamlet decides to ‘put an anti-disposition’ on himself as a tactful device. Has he succeeded in doing so by the end of the play? Does his madness seem to be feigned or genuine? Give a reasoned answer. Or The Tempest has often been interpreted as a play about colonialism. Discuss. Section—B Explain, with reference to the context, ary three of the following passages in about 200 words each : (@) We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. (6) How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, ‘That has such people in’t! 12 3x6 (3) f (co) Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, | f And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free. (@) But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief, It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled. fe) Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on : and yet, within a month— Let me not think on’t—Frailty, thy name is woman! Section—C 4. Answer any three questions in about 200 words each : 3x6 (a) What, in your opinion are the reasons for Hamlets procrastination in avenging the murder of his father? Justify your answer with textual evidences. 1D/6(319)—600 (Turn Over)(4) (b) How do you evaluate The Tempest's conclusion(s), particularly the mixed tones of celebration over the impending royal marriage, and the Prospects of Prospero’s restoration to tule over Milan and abjurement of magic, Ariel's release from service, and Caliban being left behind on the island? (co) A. C. Bradley put it in his essay, The Rejection of Falstaff, “The main source of our sympathetic delight in Falstaff is his humorous superiority to everything serious, and the freedom of soul enjoyed in it”. Discuss. (@) Knight in his The Wheel of Fire on Shakespeare's drama focuses on the atmosphere, the theme, the ‘burning central core’ of the play, rather than on the plot, the time-sequence. Discuss, (e) In the history of literary criticism, Bradley is a worthy successor to Johnson and Coleridge, two of the earlier writers. whose names and opinions spring up repeatedly in Shakespearean Tragedy. Discuss. D/6(319) (Continued) a D/6(319}—600 (5) Section—D Answer the following questions in a word or a sentence each : 10x1 (a) In Act 1, Scene 1, why does Marcellus bring Horatio to talk to the ghost? () Where is Mortimer fighting at the beginning of the play Henry IV Part I? () Why are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Denmark? (4) Where does Claudius send Cornelius and Voltimand? (e) At the end of Scene III, Ophelia agrees to ‘obey’. What will she do? Complete the quote : “If music be the food of play on. (@) What is the justification of giving the title Twelfth Night to Shakespeare's comedy What you Will ? (h) Who forges the letter that Malvolio thinks is from Olivia? (What is Barl of Douglas's nationality? @ What is the King Henry 1V weary of at the beginning of the play? ke M/Sem 11/230