M.A-M.A English 4th Sem Paper - 4.3 : Drama - II(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

M.A. (Part - II) (Semester - IV)

ENGLISH

Paper - 4.3 : Drama - II

(2008 Pattern) (Optional)

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 the following in about 400 words each:

a) Comment on

i) the exposition

ii) the racial conflict iii) the use of dialect

SMITHERS : Ho! You got it all planned, ain’t yer?

JONES : I ain’t no fool. I know dis Emperor’s time is sho’t. Dat why

I make hay when de sunshine. Was you thinkin’ I’se aimin’ to hold down dis job for life? No, suh! What good is gittin’ money if you stays back in dis raggedy country? I wants action when I spends. And when I sees dese niggers gittin’ up deir nerve to tu’n me out, and I’se got all de money in sight, I rersigns on de spot and gets away quick.

SMITHERS : Where to?

JONES               : None o’ yo’ business.

SMITHERS : Not back to the bloody States, I’ll lay my oath.

JONES               : (suspiciously) Why don’t I? (Then with an easy laugh) You

mean ‘count of dat story ‘bout me breakin’ from jail back dere? Dat’s all talk.

SMITHERS : (sceptically) Ho, yes!

JONES               : (sharply) You ain’t ‘sinuatin’ I’se a liar, is you?

SMITHERS : (hastily) No, Gawd strike me! I was only thinkin ‘o’ the

bloody lies you told the blacks ‘ere about killin’ white men in the States.

P.T.O.

b)       Comment on

the theme of the New Woman

the ending of the play Nora as a protagonist

: All over! All over! – Nora, will you never think of me again? : I know I shall often think of you and the children and this

house.

: May I write to you, Nora?

: No – Never. You must not do that.

: But at least let me spend you –

: Nothing – nothing –

: Let me help you if you are in want.

: No. I can receive nothing from a stranger.

: Nora – can I never be anything more than a stranger to you? : (taking her bag): Ah, Torvald, the most wonderful thing of

all would have to happen.

: Tell me what that would be!

: Both you and I would have to be so changed that – Oh,

Torvald, I don’t believe any longer in wonderful things happening.

: But I will believe in it. Tell me! So changed that –?

: That our life together would be a real marriage. Good-bye.

(She goes out through the hall.)

: (sinks down on a chair at the door and buries his face in his

hands): Nora! Nora! (Looks round, and rises.) Empty. She is gone. (A hope flashes across his mind.) The most

wonderful thing of all–?

(The sound of a door shutting is heard from below.)

Q2) a)        Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:                   [16]

i)        Comment on the aptness and suitability of the title “Emperor Jones”. ii)      “Emperor Jones is not a conventional but a modern tragedy” -

Discuss.

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OR

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

i)        Use of different symbols in Emperor Jones.

ii)       Dramatic sequence of the Tom - Tom.

iii)      The conflict of Good and Evil.

iv)      Pride and its consequences.

Q3) a)      Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:                   [16]

“We live in, not look at, a play by Ibsen”. Explain with reference to

A Doll’s House.

How far is it correct to call Ibsen “the father of modern drama”?

Substantiate your answer.

OR

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following in 400 words each:

i)        Final scene between Nora and Helmer.

ii)       Significance of the symbols like Christmas tree and macaroons.

iii)      Dr. Rank’s views on heredity.

iv)      Mrs. Linde’s contribution in the play.

Q4) a)      Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:                   [16]

i)        Final Solutions probes tangled attitudes towards communal

differences in contemporary India. Explain.

ii)       Comment on the depiction of social evils in Final Solutions.

OR

b)       Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400 words each:

i)        Daksha - Hardika element in Final Solutions.

ii)       Significance of the mob in Final Solutions.

iii)      Significance of the title Final Solutions.

iv)      The theme of fundamentalism in Final Solutions.

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Q5) a)      Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:                   [16]

How does Reverend Hale’s final plea affect John Proctor’s decision?

Why does he even appear in the final act?

How is Abigail Williams presented as the most evil force in the

play?

OR

b)       Answer any two of the following in about 400 words:

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