M.A-M.A English 3rd Sem Paper -3 .3 : Drama - I(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

                              M.A. (Part - II)

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                                            Paper -3 .3 : Drama - I

(Optional) (2008 Pattern) (Semester - III)

Time : 3 Hours]                                                                                                [Max. Marks :80

Instructions to the candidates:

1) All questions are compulsory.

2) Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1) Answer any one of the following:                                                                    [16]

Discuss with examples from the prescribed plays the elements of drama.

OR

Write an essay on the features of modern drama.

Q2) a)        Answer any one of the following:                                                          [16]

i)        Write an essay on the theme of betrayal in Macbeth.

ii)       Discuss the dramatic importance of Macbeth’s soliloquies.

OR

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following:

i) Banquo.

ii)       Macbeth’s hallucinations.

iii)      Macbeth’s ‘fatal error’.

iv)      The theme of ‘doubling’ in Macbeth.

Q3) a)        Answer any one of the following:                                                          [16]

i) Discuss Candida as a comedy of ideas.

ii) Compare and contrast James Morell with Eugene Marchbanks.

OR

P.T.O.

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following:

i) Intellectualism in Candida.

ii) Structure of the play Candida.

iii)      Shaw’s views on ‘modern woman’.

iv)      Title of the play Candida.

Q4) a)      Answer any one of the following:                                                          [16]

i)        “Endgame projects human subject as a sufferer”. Elaborate. ii)      Comment on the non-developmental structure of Endgame.

OR

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following:

i) Tragic element in Endgame.

ii)       Features of absurdity in Endgame.

iii)      Inadequacy of communication in Endgame.

iv)      Aptness of the title of the play Endgame.

Q5) a)      Answer any one of the following:                                                          [16]

Write a note on the modernist elements in the play The Glass

Menagerie.

“The Glass Menagerie dramatises the clash between instinctual

and civilised behavior”. Comment.

OR

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following:

i) Contrast between Tom Wingfield and Jim O’ Connor.

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Expressionistic techniques used in The Glass Menagerie.

Dramatic significance of the use of light in the play The Glass

Menagerie.

Autobiographical elements in The Glass Menagerie.

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