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

DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
SHAKESPEARE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (5 × 8 = 40 marks)
Write short essays on any FIVE of the following.
1. Comment on the victims of self-deception in Twelfth Night.
2. Bring out the importance of the repudiation scene in Much Ado About Nothing.
3. Examine shakespeare’s treatment of history in Henry IV - Part – I.
4. Write a note on Antony’s overwhelming passion for Cleopatra.
5. Discuss the role played by Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra.
6. Contrast the attitudes towards the death of the old king as expressed by claudious and Hamlet.
7. Write your opinion about the motiveless malignity of Iago.
8. Discuss the role played by Ariel in The Tempest.
SECTION B — (4 × 15 = 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Discuss the dramatic significance of ‘Disguise’ in Twelfth Night.
10. Consider Much Ado About Nothing a mature comedy.
11. Comment on Shakespeare’s craftmanship in creating the character of Falstaff in Henry IV – Part – I.
12. “Cleopatra is a bundle of contradictions” — Substantiate.
13. Consider Hamlet a tragic hero.
14. Consider Othello a play dealing with the tragic consequences of suspicion.
15. Comment on the role of supernatural elements in The Tempest

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