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    freer fet arpa ar Peverererr INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY waar / Assignment to pa || a oats eae SMEG: Masten of Rats english) | Pe ie eo eis ls 4 pee ppaGeabsina Ee e ferra wuie / fara ofits Course Code/Course Title wai orf ots Assignment Code wa Telephone / Mobile No. E-Mail mares oF fare Date of Submission feats / ate 15512022 | MEG- 25 British Drama 2 qgulafsha. +86 @ymait.com | MEG - 02> 202) - 2022 Session 2 : 6933 , ati Gondni wali Ahata wat : Address TERS VERN one AE 2efeta / Htargata. + aqaqou2893, 9411392048 USS er do22 =e Cia Male imeem | GKITISI G8)__|| Discuss the play with In. the Play ‘in_A Midsummer Night’s Deteam = Ans) The -blay= uiithin= the- play + This play within a._play. thee forie_used. by Shae sbeaue 4p make a subtle point about! Aheatsie nately the fact thet _is only oT aa ‘ilhaoein cole dike to bedoum a ploy at Thesves’” "Weddite.. Thesues is an enlightened, spler, notable fos his wise jeg but ae iB a. Sint fp his abilities : the poklem ogee fon so he tefies Ye low ime and, WosiK on Eques and Demetoius » But there seems fitH mosie that te *¢ hash Atherian Lain” sill psinduce a olution a ofl poxtes. 4n this play the Aaa ananchic tendencies of the ‘pop lovene of “the _mecharical.~ a acts . ond of puck axe Hestsai the EES fintherian Law” the palace wood by ced peer and theior vicsbective consosits. Tis tension with’ Rs the phy 4 is matched in its constowetion: In . us can ral fimes Seen ictus and out conto} yet the Stuuctove cy the play Shows a oe inf 7 ard.pattorring. Con}sonted Ly the ‘shos’ Law of ath pane. not uiahing to obey at.” Lysenden thinks of escabe ~ But has no idea® that the wood 4 “which he sees moiely as & wendezvens befovie he and Hermia tly to bis aunt, has ‘its o and swler. As Thesves is combsiomt sed by his oun law; “Thesues uiches 4 overowle Eques _, but Knows that bis own authoutty deives yom the faw, that this cant be when it! doesn’t suit the vilew’s wishes. He does discover a. merciful powision the law hich Eques has oveilooKed Mon Heinia ty choose 't the livery ef a nin”, But hopes tp_borsuade Remetoius to oielenguish his cloim , tneisting that Hoimia toke time Ibcloue choosig her tate . “The loves difficulties ae made _cleay by ¥ a v the Law Rthens j but astice fiom thes oun _bassions 2 thos , | when they enters the woods , the 1 take theis Josioblems them. Obeion is combyomised bcoz his quasisiel with “Tita caused him. ond hex to neglect then duties : Obewon who Should _wivle fiona over the ‘entine -baist Hingdon — ° . . “i ule in his OWh domestic otisiangaments . We see how each sulen yin. usin 4 wiesolves this fpsioltem , ustthout fosither boteaki of. lig law. nthe LOVE dielation ships of Thesves and Hippaiyta. of Ob e ond “Wtania._and 64 the two _paisis eong lov exs, see LOVE which, ta a manner abbwiopoilate 4o_the status and the |chomacten A the lovers is idealized eventually « | and his consosrt have had thei qvaysie|_b ey begins , but Shakesbeare’s choice Re + | aiules means ‘the avdio well Knows the 'swod’? ond Finjostes” ued. 40 in 162.3 We see the siesolution © foties, guanine! and that Of the loverig using the plas al ds ot i end. Bvt whereas the soles viissolve thei own psloblems , a5 befits thein madusitty onl status the young. lovers ane not able to do so, and this tas is shared “by Oban and Thesves. Obeion osidexs Puck » Ke Ly sand drd._Demetsivs pom harring each others and. _Milestis confioms thes: wishes as he overbears Faves , us dle fs hot Know bseaking his own Law , beoz Demetiius can? + be combelled, to monsy against bis ill « A sidiculous bavaltel eae young Loveis so exbject to Passion that» alten disdoeying. Aheiss baverts Law of the word unuittingly . Pack?’ conversation with the pinst folvy tn Qt. makes “clean that the wood ts where Obeion and. tania Ki Uneivi coust: > thowgh they_tsrave| tusithes afield. ( Obeion ace. ul to “Haria_has come {om the +athest ster of dndia boo 6f the _marwiage ot His tovowite to Thesves , hile the ® n veen aie been in’ 4ndio usith the mother 6 hex Change tt a dn the end we can conclude that the stor os Pystam us Avis Seis avery subtle oivtpsin bo ae _the ai elements 64 a. Midsummer Night’s Daeam’ levers caught {n_ misunderstanding. and Sosisiaus enhanced by the daikness, Wight. Like the! main sinay of outer play, the inner play ral F of ip E iconsists of a toroais Psiemise made comical, by the ac ee eae ~The tmens unintentionally goohy. | positsrayl of the woe (Of; Ploiamus ond ee ay ibe ietedant somantic anglement: the othenion. Lover Seem moue Comical. However , it_is tml wan to secognize as well that the ‘inherent stoiuctosie th a a within- lay» Allow shakespeare ’s te Show. his "tnseting, a gem pure comedy, The _con a hove been ete ada. Ba habb ant procwied “foo all? the porfermance thes, has_ne imblact on ae ‘bet “Rather the bsialjtmen’s hilasiious Lonel it of, Ahe heavy allows the oudfence and the tichdubih & Athenian evens losigh and alte delight in the spectacle of the Pieg. [Page No. ©) [To what extent gues hamler hated. een eveden between chaxacters of tthe play . Alten a._deeber_study othe blay however , Tt becomes evident that tue characters AS Mose wxecbonsiisle it being a Eouagedy 5 hamlet and. J later omer eoue teri teisea taba ciineleeveue py and ans. to _subtley demands 2_qxeot toiagedy . an teen hamlet = twins out to be a gseat “siogedy Stathes_o mee eVen' bloy. z 5 One the +osiemost Elfzabethan toragedies in the _cano) ot english literatuae is “hamlet” by Willian Shakesbeaste and ‘ one the costliest cuitics of teiagedy is Aaiistle. One +> measune ShoKesbeane?s wosik ythamlet? fs tr a appoiaise, ib us the methods of classical cuiitics tp see if it meets the cSitexioa. fx a tyra edly hamlet _is one of the _most _secogniz ah ond most. ten quoted. tstagedies in old of I English Utdiatur AAsiistole., who. is concexned with the pope _poiesentation 4 ee of tors ic_plays ond fost defies tiagedy an 1%... 9 Seat, ot on action thet is wourth ‘seious attention , cent in ‘sel? _, ond Of some apittude t in lanquage enriched a Vosiiet of asttistic devices nae bo ee several by } parts ef the bey boiesented inthe 4o action 5 not naw ion By means a fity ond fear baoiinging ey the furigedion & Such emotion .” -e Shake sbease’s uses chanactex plot 4 ond setting 40 cheate a mood of; disgust ond a theme Sf pooper. steVenge 5 0s ebbosed to “ean and pity, hence Asistole would have dis _ wiovied. Homlet as “being a tx edy 4t is the above mentioned elements + chosiact & plot and setting Used tine hon —Aviistelian way that _makes Hamlet wouk as one 6, the English Lanquage?s most senown tsiagedies. By _pswper Srevenge neko ais Rocher eneneat ha cievenc en unuiet tse count in contain J, Cases ) too the wovild to continve ely « This ts the main blot & amet. Sn Poetics , Astistole di ines oor us , the ekmert of bist ond shows Us how he believes it Ree pot together. Helalleo. Belleves tn Nasiious urities which he. States or necessass a bsiober tuogedy . Aviistole believes tn that he calls ‘Unit Alot? This Us leaves no si0om fos subplots which aie Comte > the theme ol Hamlet. Without ‘the Sokblots A of lactes sevienge ond the subplot Fouttin bias’ sevenge Rae Ge left chine luqubuxious plays where the Endin: alloy inecessasty is pointless. Tht together. as a unit ob subplots aftow oss ondessband whi Shakesbeanes thought of icgerge. a Ox=I=D Anothes the ways Aviistole defines plot_i ino tHe jedy ab t The noble actions and the ang noble persone? By this definition » Hamlet should, be 2 le percon Lomloes only fhoble things « Auiistole. uxvld have abjected fo Hamlet ’s vefusal ie Kill Claiidive dui ex_uhich fooims, the twin paint: Homlet. This is significent beoz. i the were t have aches Wegorianelcoe nisboint Claudine “soul may Novel been clean. Hamlet wishes to get Ditenae | then! Claudis “Sout m: be damned and Black | As hell_, whereto t+ gees + by wolith nv the oitght time’, Harmlet loses his chance ts achieve sieleg is ignelte act does add to the theme sf buober sieverge’, not in “the paimoasy plot _, but when alll thier sievienge ub- picts ane _congidened tet. bu) Can the Alchenjist be Undesstood os a sative 2 Give suitable examples ta Comedy holds the mission ub to natuxe ond sieHlects thiegs as they ane, the end that society Mmay_oiecogree the extent of its chositcomings and the ally Ais Woue! one set about [#S_imbsolements Jonson's qiieatest plays “Volpone (1608), Epic (1609) , The alchemist £1s!0) Basithalomew Faiss( 1614) - 6 O_O sichly detailed conte ay account ef follies ond vices that ane always uith us. The seitin (short sfrorn Volfone]is Jonson’ s own London , and the chayactesis ane the ingenious os, the clevious om the gsotsque poreducts: & the foray wish t get Gheod in) tell Wedids the conduct. cb a Jonsorian Conic be is in the horde of a clever _maribulatod. who is oot to make seal contiim t» his own desisies. Sometimes he succeeds as in the case of the clever yung. gentleman who going his Uncle’s inhexi_ ance in Ebicpene on the éne tao aoins the sich Pumitan uindw Hos his eige in Basrthslomets Fain, dn olbone ond the _flchemis the schemes eventually fail but +hs is the foutt o the maribulatons , sho ill neve! slop when they ase ahead y and rot at alt’ du te any fasght on the bant of the victims « The erga q ° V i Victims ase almost embasisiassingly eayer to be vic Each has his sitiling. passion - his homoun— ond it sewes to set him mosie on less mechanically tm the bath that -he a T a . will undeviartingly bursve, to his own discomfituse. Englich comedy ‘ok the Later AY Centosy is cast th the _ J v [Page Ne. Tonsorian Mold. Restosiation comedy is conceuned with [the Same subject = the game of: love- bot the subject is toede J las_ a _cstitique del shionable ‘society. 4ts aim is distinc! Satinic yond it is set forth tn plots sf Tonsorian Comblexit where the palin cipal ia the siakish how y bent on satis} Nemees tats needs outside the bonds of rrasuioge if possi 4n_the queatest of these _zomedies ~ Sion ‘Gesoge Fhese’s Man Mode’ (1634) spo. ex. 081 Willian Wychelewy’s ~Courtsry- lnk (1648) 051 bliliam Gngsew’s Way of the Wooid (I0t)- the Dare is_on the enetey and the quince ustth which game - S plued. 5 and the highest dbometic ebboieval_ is daeved to Tre when it is played out. The satvic ‘ingpostt Restoviation Coned Rect in_the Aico Cals | aueencseso)- a. Leilene incorgaity * thot between the image_¢f man_ih his bsiionrtive hacluse, wae the image of man ontid “the ontidiciat destyains that society would, impose bon him. The sabiwigst in these plays is chiehhy ‘concened. with the pole ck Social decomum. The animal nabuie | Iman is taken feo 9 gsanted » and so is the Social srspanabil i) Keep op abbensiness 5 Some ter most t follows and ustthih et Nimits society will_wink at theisi_so long as they ane | diecsieetly monoged. The parodex is typical of these ‘in which hg festosiaticn comie doiamatists dehght: and the stsiengl national ond onidealistic etheds _o this comedy has ‘its. af F nities With the nodwialistic ond skeptical Sse late [F century philosophical ght: 4t_is generally conceded that 7F The second point make an obvious the fst 18 400 cade a statement to bee ie we con see no season why he should not A two Plays. So_ diffs os the Tempest and The tragedy _ “Could. Par wea uide enough Ml include dowethnm: bostlil fost Jonson 40 have A Bot the” classification ob boage and. comedy, y uhile: it be _sulticient ty moi. distinction ina diamatic _literatuie ok note sigid fosim and toeatment - ik m distinguish Ausistbhanes, om Euaibides — is hot adequote ba duane Y oe Such Voviations! as the Elizabethans « Can Eliza: in. Pygmalion be texmed as feminist ? Elabowate . Te os between men and women, and ha they intexnct ten the basis of may _evels and lous Stuugale and. nfl ene them is. v evident_y Vet the. meaning. and _viease the conflict’ axe Sometimes decbor than what is on outside, Bernad. show. uses the play Pygmalion to also comment bon. “|/the conPlict which exits between the sexes. This comblict ig most cleanly bought out Aosugh the telationshiby between Eliza. and Hensap Heggins « Higgins isa polished teachen bhoneticS And ig intwoduced ab a beison who is of the energetic scientific {ype heatily even voilontly fintenested_ in evi thing tat con be stdied OS a scienchiic subject and coneleSs. About himself ond’ other people yincledi telat feelings « These tsaits of character one like a lacy to Conflict with Eliza Doolittle , 0 common flower got yuaho by a donttoiivence: eb blot , boings hex to leasin to speak” ‘liKe a da was a power skip oem Hens Higgins . Eliza. has ambition and: E dignity. Ond Jwiesentar ba bolted by Hiagians ,.a sodot superinn Esiom the begings of ‘blay we noticed an. clement : Ikonthet which chanacteris ‘thelsi entivie Halatinship. At their jsist_mectng she HubeKes him when he insulter her _b Calling. her So squashed _colbage lea? and an incoinate oo ea. Even when she comes 1 it -she nae beq but use oA Date good, enough. 4 con go else where . She sbeaks back » ¢_ doesn’t “sheak sensible to her ond calls him im when a. _gqsreat bal Higgins continues te bully hex. This is done even as he fs € He is altsiacted by the challenge which Heachii Eliza potsents * dts almbst towestble . She’s so deliciously low , so hosisilly disity . He vows t» make a buches out his aid le—talled qultexripe and dmpviously dismisses all csitticsm ond advice when he asked y what is become 6f her? The _stoge is set _t conflict fiom the time Eliza enters Wimpole “stsiect. This {s_steflected, of shaw?s philossphy sega ne the conpict zr buretly ot is bound +> oll. On ng. told. b o_albhabets she trot back with 4 at ray tlk S you tank 4 Know nothing > 2 Unable to borake Her sbisitt Higgins dag her avound the _stooms_th. times by hey ae 3 ne The, uelationship is_ one of inequality « Higgins has status )_ education , Confidence , sdf - neliance and “ott that goes into making, a mature gentleman. Eliza due 1 hex backgitound ht no culture 1 polished. sheech SOE 931_money 4p” make her = ‘in any ek val. 49 higging_. Yet due +b her pestsonal, dignity confidence tn hers Sheniswable to. word - attembs b ae ay sane tes ee : ft_is an iswny n_l Anak: while shaw studiously toiled. i - [aveid the Suggestion that Higgins ond Fiza were ‘m love » el general audience - _batese ty’ see a habby ending b Widen | _|orelationshib shaw. twisted the paineibles of dyama by then the theatre - goin: ||not ee a. natusial_endii blic_ mistook a. omantic endi tothe play. he, wi i incensed enough to wwiite a “Sequel? to_exblain that th Stelation ship was not one of love. ‘Eliza vicatizes that she is only as Ampbovttant to Higai as slibbexs os Higgins will never be able to moke Eliza. the syst ‘and wost typostiont thing tm dike «On the other bard Higgins _usith_ Kis Ei would never sumbit to loeing a wecent social media conauest women’s Gee With Eliza made ‘ot the Emba balt'y when she could get any other suitable gentleman uho uel beidewted to her. The conflict theieloste _contnves » Eliza sigects Higgins cdhile hig Ts. alwoys conscious that he never laked Eliza but lewmed ‘ wiesbect: hex as. ao pesgon ond Lecome accustomed to hey voice hen face wher soul. He tells her 40 come back +> Wimbole atsicet the rmuniy after che left thowuiny. the sibbos af him . He tells her 40 come back. Joss ‘he fun ok it Significantly combayes theist Hving, together to being ike _thatee old becholans viethor than two man and a silly iui. though this Statement he exbwesses thot her oteqord foot Eliza is Tot on vaccoont oh hen being J otisnctve | woman bet beoz he hat leaned to we shect individuality tn the some ut os he uiesbects Pickening. Thee ie no doubt that the seletionshib between Eliza S= / j f Higgins, ok the end * ploy. is Nery different: Jo then ‘is oe 2 sxclation ship at the begnri fins _as wal a. hes bso his. “halatea? to, We. a ne th which” _ [this is Accomplished by Higgins « Vig mi

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