M.A-M.A English DRAMA (Alagappa University - Directorate of Distance Education-2012)

DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
DRAMA
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following questions.
1. How is the infant Oedipus able to survive?
2. How does Nora Clear her husband’s debt?
3. Why does Dr. Faustus study black magic?
4. Comment on the character of Marlow of “She stoops to conquer”.
5. How do McCann and Gold berg treat Stanley?
6. Comment on the role played by Celia Coplestone.
7. Why does Joe Keller kill himself?
8. Comment on the career of Ain-Ul-Mulk.
SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following questions.
9. How does fate play in the life of Oedipus?
10. How does Nora assert her individuality?
11. Is “Dr. Faustus” a tragedy? — Discuss.
12. “In “The cocktail Party” T.S. Eliot uses absurdism to
expose the isolation of the human condition” — Discuss.
13. How does Arthur Miller present the American society in his “All My Sons”?
14. Compare and contrast Najib and Barani.
15. Comment on the plot of “Silence! The court is in session”.

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