Gauhati University DramaTHIRD PAPER 2007 Question Paper

University :  Gauhati University
Degree : Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya)
Question Paper Subject:Drama(THIRD PAPER)
Question Paper Year : 2007
Question Paper Details : Previous Years Question Papers Types Version

Drama(THIRD PAPER) 

The figures in the margin indicate full marks

for the questions

New Syllabus

SECTION-A

1. Comment on the presence of the Machiavellian temper in Marlowe's The Jew of

Malta. How does Marlowe situate political expediency and personal choice in

the play? Give a reasoned answer. 12

Or

How does Ben Jonson dramatise the machinations of the corrupt mind in

Volpone? Illustrate your argument with suitable examples.

2. Examine Shakespeare's representation of the theme of governance in The

Tempest and Henry V. 12

Or

Would you agree with the view that The Tempest anticipates much of the

concerns that occupy postcolonial criticism? Situate the themes of colonial

experience and statecraft in The Tempest in the context of contemporary

reading practices.

3. Write a note on Shakespeare's appropriation of dramatic strategies like the

soliloquy and the play-within-a-play to enhance the tragic experience .in

Hamlet 12

Or

Discuss the significance of the minor characters in Hamlet and offer a

perspective on their contribution to the eventual dramatic experience.

4. "The scope and immediate object of a play is to please a mixed assembly in

representation", wrote Sheridan about The Rivals. Examine his play and its

comic orientation in the light of the above remark. 12

Or

Consider Shaw's Pygmalion as a treatise on education and evaluate its

dramatic structure in the context of Shavian practice.

5. Write a note on the representation of the existentialist outlook in Beckett's Waiting for

Godot 12

Or

Analyse the structures of power in Pinter's The Birthday Party and comment

on the way the struggle for space determines human conduct.

SECTION-B

6. Explain, with reference to the context, any four of the following: 5×4=20

(a) Content. But we will leave this

paltry land

And sail from hence to Greece, to

lovely Greece.

'I’ll be thy Jason, thou my

Golden Fleece.

(b) This we were bid to credit from our poet, whose true scope, if you would

know it, In all his poems still hath been

this measure,

To mix profit with your pleasure.

(c) Thus comes the English with full

power upon us

And more then carefully us it concerns

To answer Royally in our defences.

(d) 0, I have suffered

With those that I saw suffer!

A brave vessel,

Who had no doubt some noble creature

in her,

Dash'd all to pieces!

(e) A sword seen in the streets of Bath would raise as great an alarm as a maddog.

How provoking this is in Faulkland !

{f} Haven't you ever played blind man's Huff? Keep still, Mrs. Boles. You

mustn't be touched. But you can't move after she's blind. You must stay

where you are after she's blind. And if she touches you then you become

blind.

(g) Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I

sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or

think I do, what shall I say of today?

(Old Syllabus)

Write the answers to the two Halves in separate books

FIRST HALF

7. Answer any two of the following (approximate 500 words each): l0×2=20

(a) Comment on Goneril and Regan as daughters. What picture of the position

of women do you get from Lear's expectations of his daughters?

(b) Write briefly on the juxtaposition of scenes in Measure for Measure.

(c) What is the" dramatic significance of the poetic scene in Macbeth? How

would you link this with the first scene with the witches and their

prophecies about Macbeth's death later?

(d) Discuss Hal's friendship with Falstaff and the commoners. What

significance does this have for his growth as 'future king of England?

8. (a) Write briefly on any two of the following: 5×2=10

(i) The significance of Prospero's story as told to Miranda. (The

Tempest)

(ii) Children in Macbeth

(iii) The Lear-Gloucester relationship

(iv) The prison as described by Pompey (Measure for Measure)

(b) Critically comment with reference to the context' on any two of the following:

5×2=l0

(i) So, farewell.

Fly; brother. Torches ! torches !

So, farewell [Evil Edgar)

Some blood drawn on me would

beget opinion [Wounds his arm]

Of my more fierce endeavour:

(ii) This is most strange,

That she, whom even but now was

your best object,

The argument of your praise,

balm of your age,

The best, the dearest, should in

this trice of time

Commit a thing so monstrous....

(iii) Sleep that knits up the ravell'd

sleave of care,

The death of each day's life, sore

labour's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's

second course,

Chief nourishes in life's feast.

SECOND HALF

9. Answer any two of the following (approximate 500 words each):

l0×2=20

a) What ideas of environment/ reality /self-construction would you think' emerge

from Shaw's Pygmalion?

b) Discuss the implications of widowhood and power in Jacobean England-the

setting for The Duchess of Malfi.

c) Analyse the structuring of Waiting for Godot, and show how absurdist devices

are used in the play within such a structure.

d) Discuss Jonson's treatment of the female in Volpone in the context of the

Renaissance period.

10. Answer 1 Write short note~ on any four of the following:

5×4=20

(a) Madness in The Duchess of Malfi

(b) The role of language in Waiting for Godot

(c) 'Heroism' in the context of nationalism in Playboy of the

Western World

(d) Nano 1 Androgyno 1 Castrone-their place in Jonson's Volpone

(e) The setting of Playboy of the Western World

(f) The notions. of 'love' and 'marriage' in play like Pygmalion.

(g) Explain, with reference to the context:

"Good morning to the day; and next,

my gold!"

Open the shrine, that I may see

my saint.

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