Gauhati University 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) Drama(THIRD ) - Question Paper

The figures in the margin indicate full marks
for the ques.
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 option in
the play? provide a reasoned ans. 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 situation of contemporary
studying 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
explain 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 situation 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 4 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 actual 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 ans Royally in our defences.
(d) 0, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
A brave vessel,
Who had no doubt a few 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 2 Halves in separate books
FIRST HALF
7. ans any 2 of the subsequent (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 1st scene with the witches and their
prophecies about Macbeth's death later?
(d) explain 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 2 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 defined by Pompey (Measure for Measure)
(b) Critically comment with reference to the context' on any 2 of the following:
5×2=l0
(i) So, farewell.
Fly; brother. Torches ! torches !
So, farewell [Evil Edgar)
a few 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 every 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. ans any 2 of the subsequent (approximate 500 words each):
l0×2=20
a) What ideas of environment/ reality /self-construction would you think' emerge
from Shaw's Pygmalion?
b) explain 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) explain Jonson's treatment of the female in Volpone in the situation of the
Renaissance period.
10. ans one Write short note~ on any 4 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 situation of nationalism in Playboy of the
Western World
(d) Nano one Androgyno one 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.

Earning:   Approval pending.