B.A.lPart-IIIHons.

IENGA-IDI2017

WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY

B.A. Honours PART-II Examinations, 2017

ENGLISH-HoNOURS

. PAPER-ENGA-Ill

NEW AND OLD SYLLABUS

Time Allotted: 4 Hours Full Marks: 100

The figures in the margin indicate foil marks.

Candidates should answer in their own words and adhere to the word limit as practicable.

New Syllabus

Group-A
1. Answer any four questions from the following within 200 words each. 5x4 =20

(a) Give a brief account of how the beginning of English drama lay in. the
church liturgy.
(b) Comment critically on the role of Interludes in the development of English
drama.

(c) What type of play is The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd? Comment on its
salient features.
(d) What is a Revenge drama? Enumerate its features.

(e) Comment on the features of the Heroic Play with suitable examples.
(f) Assess the contribution of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in the history of
English drama.

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Group-B

2. Answer anyone question from the following within 500 words: 15xl =

(a) Comment on the role of ambition in Tamburlaine's life.

(b) The most obvious demand that Marlowe makes upon his actors is to speak
his grandiloquent poetry fittingly. Discuss with reference to Tamburlaine
Part 1.

(c) Comment on Shakespeare's use of supernatural elements in Macbeth.

(d) Analyse the imagery of anyone of Macbeth's soliloquies and show how it
reveals his state of mind.

3. Answer anyone question from the following within 500 words: l Sx l =

(a) Comment on the significance of the title of the play, Twelfth Night and also
its secondary title, "What You Will" with reference to the major themes of
the play. .
(b) Discuss the role of music in Twelfth Night.
(c) What idea of the Jacobean London do you gather from the play The
Alchemist?
(d) How doe~ Jonson satirize human gullibility in The Alchemist?

4. Answer anyone question from the following within 500 words: 15xl = 1

(a) Critically examine She Stoops to Conquer as an anti-sentimental comedy.

(b) Is Tony Lumpkin solely a foppish character? Justify your answer with
particular reference to She Stoops to Conquer.
(c) In The Man 0/ Mode show how country life is reproached and town life
admired.
(d) Critically analyse the character of Mr. Dorimantin The Man of Mode.

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5. Explain with reference to the context, any three each in about 200 words: 5x3 = 15
(a) But wherefore could I not pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing,
and 'Amen' stuck in my throat.
(b) And through my provinces you must expect
Letters of conduct from my mightiness,
If you intend to keep your treasure safe ..
(c) Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio and taste with a distempered
appetite.
(d) Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then
Proceeds she to the perfect.
(e) True madam; those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in
their bosom.
(f) Believe me, a wife, to repair the ruins of my estate that needs it.

Group-C

6. Write short notes on any five from the following, each in about 100 words: 4x5 =20

(a) Masque
(b) Peripeteia
(c) Denouement
(d) Unities
(e) Deus ex machina
(f) Hamartia

(g) Farce.

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Old Syllabus

Section-I

1. Answer any two questions from the following: lOx2 = 20

(a) Di cuss the characteristic features of the Morality Play.
(b) Assess the role played by the University Wits in the development of
Elizabethan Drama.
(c) What are the salient features of Heroic Tragedy? Answer with particular
reference to any two dramatists.
(d) Why is anti-sentimental comedy so called? Answer with reference to any
one playwright of the genre.

Section-II

2. Give brief answers to any six questions from the following: 2x6 = 12
(a) What did Everyman offer as a bribe to Death? What was Death's response?
(b) How does Bajazeth react to Tamburlaine's cruelty?
(c) Explain the reference to "Plato's wondrous year".
(d) How does Rowland Lacy plan to disguise himself?
(e) What explanation did Bosola provide to Antonio for being a 'night-walker'
at odd hours?
(t) T'is not likely a man should be fond of seeing a damned old play when there
is a new one acted. What does Dorimant mean by "a damned old play" and
"a new one"?
(g) Why would Bobadill not draw his weapon against Downright?
(h) Explain ''No change, no pause, no hope! yet I endure.
I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt?"
(i) What is a Prologue? Why does Every Man in His Humour have a prologue?

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Section-ill

3. Answer anyone question from the following: 15xl = 15

(a) Bring out the intricacies in the character of Gaveston in Edward II.
(b) Discuss the dramatic importance of the 'abdication scene' in Edward II.
(c) What role does the supernatural play in Macbeth?
(d) Bring out the significance of the banquet scene in Macbeth.

4. Locate and annotate/Comment on anyone from the following: 6xl = 6

(a) "Heavens can witness, I love none but you".

(b) "As for myself, I stand as Jove's huge tree
And others are but shrubs compared to me."
(c) "All live to die, and rise to fall."
(d) "There's no art
To fmd the mind's construction in the face."
(e) "The Thane of Fife had a wife: Where is she now?"
(f) "This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill; cannot be good."

Section-IV

5. Answer anyone question from the following: 15xl = 15

(a) Critically comment on Feste's songs in Twelfth Night.
(b) Bring out the significance of the 'gulling scene' in Twelfth Night.

6. Locate and annotate/Comment on anyone of the following: 6xl =6

(a) "Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
(b) "The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul, being in
heaven.
(c) "If music be the food of love, play on."

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Section-V

7. Answer anyone question from the following: 15 x l = 15

(a) Bring out the significance of the 'screen scene' in Sheridan's Play The
School for Scandal.
(b) How appropriate is the title of Sheridan's Play The School for Scandal?
(c) Comment on the role of Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer.
(d) Comment on the plot construction of She Stoops to Conquer. .

8. Locate and annotate I Comment on anyone from the following: 6x 1 = 6

(a) "Bags and bouquets! Halters and bastinadoes!"

(b) "Ah! We. shall never see such figures of men again."
(c) "When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect?"
(d) "Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs".
(e) "A French dancing master could never have taught him that timid look - that
awkward address - that bashful manner."
(f) "There are few that do not condemn in public
What they practise in private."

Section-VI

9. Answer any five from the multiple choice questions given below: lx5 = 5
(a) Catharsis is:
(i) purgation
(ii) comic relief
(iii) a gross form of comedy
(b) Samuel Beckett is a renowned author of
(i) morality play
(ii) absurd drama
(iii) one-act play.

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(c) Farce is an exaggerated form of

(i) comedy
(ii) tragedy
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(iii) lyric
(d) Chorus in drama is
(i) a group of singers in a musical programme
(ii) a group of people who sang and danced
(iii) a group of common people speaking in one voice
(e) An anti-hero is
(i) an enemy of the hero
(ii) a non-heroic protagonist
(iii) a plebeian
(f) Catastrophe is
(i) a fatal accident
(ii) an important happening in a play
(iii) the culmination of a play falling action
(g) Which one is not included among the 'three unities'?
(i) unity of time
(ii) unity of mood
(iii) unity of action
(h) The term 'Hubris' means
(i) extreme pride
(ii) tragic flaw
(iii) catharsis.

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