Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2006 B.A Political Science The Elizabethan Age - Question Paper
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3. Write on THREE of the following in about 200 words each. (3 x 10 = 30)
(a) What are Bacon's views on the art of spending money?
Or
(b) Consider The Book of Job as poetry or drama.
(c) How does Shakespeare immortalize the beauty of his friend?
Or
(d) Comment on the major themes of the prescribed poems of Wyatt and Surrey.
(e) Consider Faustus as a tragic hero.
Or
(f) Explain how Every Man in His Humour
illustrates Jonsons theory of comedy.
4. Write any TWO essays in about 200 words each.
(2 x 10 = 20)
(a) Bacons essays are concerned only with worldly wisdom and the art of success. Discuss with illustrations from the essays you have read.
(b) Bring out the Renaissance elements present in the Elizabethan poetry.
(c) Dr. Faustus rises above any other of Marlowe's plays in that it is a soul's tragedy - Discuss.
(d) Comment on the characterization of Every Man in His Humour.
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION - JANUARY, 2006. (Supplementary for AY 2003-04 and CY-2004 Students) First Year
THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Time ; 3 hours Maximum marks : 75
1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about
30 words : (5x3 = 15)
(a) He accuses others by justifying a thing saying by negative 'This I do not.
(i) What is the negative attitude referred
to here?
(ii) Derive Bacon's wisdom from the above
line.
(b) It is like the stream which carries fresh waters into the salt sea of corruption which governs all human actions.
(i) What is referred by 'it'?
(ii) How can we weed out corruption?
(c) New employees are more timid and less cunning.
(i) Explain the sentence
(ii) Should one change his employees periodically?
(d) Julius Caesar made friends with Decimus Brutus even though the latter ultimately joined the conspiracy against him,
(i) Bring out the relevance of this allusion.
(ii) How is friendship helpful in relieving
grief?
(e) When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my
pain.
(i) What is the cause of his grief?
(ii) Can anything get rid of his pain?
(f) These shepherds and these nymphs do know, The Sylvia is as chaste as fair.
(i) Who is Sylvia?
(ii) What do the shepherds and nymphs
know?
(g) So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
(i) How does the poet give a permanent life to his friend?
(ii) Can a poem preserve sweet and lovely
youth?
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(h) If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be in love.
(i) What are the delights referred here?
(ii) Is this lyric meant to tempt his lady?
(i) A sound magician is a mighty god :
(i) Who is the magician mentioned here?
(ii) Do you accept the view of the speaker?
(j) Was this the face that launched a thousand
ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss,
(i) Explain the allusion of Helen and
Ilium.
(ii) Bring out the emotional state of the
speaker.
2. Write short notes on any TWO of the following in about 100 words each. (2x5 = 10)
(a) Bacon's advice to the successful business people.
(b) John Donnes "Batter My Heart".
(c) Similes and metaphors in The Book of Job.
(d) Dr. Faustus a morality play.
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