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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007
EL 4811/EL 4807/ EL 4800 – SHAKESPEARE – CONT. INTERPRE.
Date & Time : 16.04.2007/9.00-12.00 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
PART – A
Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each: 2 x 10 = 20
- “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn”
Identify the speaker and explain the paradoxical element in lane.
- “Compare her face with some that I shall show
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow”.
Whose beauty or lack of it is talked about here and by whom?
- “Laugh to scorn the power of man,
for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth”.
What kind of a prophecy is this?
- “O! full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife”.
Comment on the speaker’s emotional state.
- “Thou art the best of the cut-throats.”
Who are the recipients of this compliment and for what?
- “She loved me for the dangers I had pass’d,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used.
Bring out the significance of witchcraft in these lines.
- “Excellent witch! Perdition catch my soul
But I do, love thee! And when I love thee not,
Chaors is come again.” – Comment on the lines.
- Yet she must die, else she ‘ll betray more men,
Put out the light, and then put out the lights.
Bring out the significance of the above lines.
- “I must obey. His art is of such power,
It would control my dam’s god, Setehor
And make a vassal of him,”
Explain the underlined words.
- “……….We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep………”
Comment on the passage.
PART – B
II Answer any FIVE the following questions in not more than 200 words each: 8 x 5= 40
- Discuss King Lear from a New Historicist framework employing Greenblatt’s choice of Hasnett’s essay on Exorcists as a co-text.
- How does Kate ‘ become a woman’ in
The Taming of the Shrew?
- Comment on the role of fate in
Romeo and Juliet.
- “Shakespeare lets you know almost
everything about human nature”. – Dr. Johnson
Analyze the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbetti in the light of this comment.
- Bring out the salient features of the Romances.
- Illustrate Shakespeare’s use of tragic and comic imagery in a few selected plays.
- Examine the aptness of the title The Tempest.
- What dimensions does Shakespeare invest his women characters in Othello with?
PART – C
Answer the following questions in about 350 words each: 20 x 2 = 40
- a) Attempt a New Historicist reading of The Taming of the Shrew, not as a love story but as a commodification of marriage in Elizabethan England.
(or)
- b) Analyse Romeo and Juliet as an “Open Work” (Umberto Eco’s term)
that provides a fresh and contemporary perspective on “love marriage” versus “an arranged marriage”.
- a) Attempt an analysis of the issue of ‘Race” and ‘The Other’ in Othello.
(or)
- b) The Tempest is an allegory of European discovery and colonization – Discuss.
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