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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

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FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2008

EL 4800/ LE 1020 – SHAKESPEARE

 

 

 

Date : 03-05-08                  Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

Part A

 

Interpret the following passages and fix the context.        10 x 2  = 20

 

  1. ‘Tis time I should inform thee farther.

Lend thy hand, and pluck my magic garment from me.

  1. O most dear mistress,

The sun will set before I  shall discharge What I must strive to do.

  1. I did say so,

When first I raised the tempest.

  1. He hath an uncle here  in messina will be very much glad of it.
  2. We must follow the leaders.
  3. Age cannot wither her

Nor custom stale her infinite variety

  1. Why is my lord enraged against his love?
  2. ‘Tis well I am found by you

I will but spend a word here in the house.

  1. By the world,

I think my wife be honest, and think she is not

  1. Cousin, there’s fall’n between him and my lord.

 

Part B

Answer any FIVE of the following  questions in about 150 words each.  ( 5 x 8 = 40)

  1. Comment on the opening scenes of the plays of Shakespeare.
  2. Discuss Much ado about nothing as Shakespeare’s early play.
  3. Describe the circumstances that go against Desdemona.
  4. Write on the theme of Winter’s Tale.
  5. Justify the villainy of Iago.
  6. Do you agree to the view that Shakespeare has mastered in the tragedies?

Give reasons to your answer.

  1. What kind of relationship does Prospero maintain with Caliban?

 

Part C

Answer the following in about 500 words each.     ( 2 x 20 = 40)

 

  1. Bring out the contrasting characteristics of Desdemona and Cleopatra.

(or)

Attempt a comparative study of the characters Antony and Othello.

  1. Write on the significance of the title Much ado about Nothing.

(or)

Shakespeare presents a higher level of sorrow and pain in the play

Othello than in other tragedies.Illustrate.

 

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Loyola College B.A. English April 2012 Shakespeare Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

EL 4501 – SHAKESPEARE

 

 

 

Date : 24-04-2012              Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

PART – A

 

 Explain the following passages with reference to the context:                                (10×2=20)

 

  1. I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,

Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder

The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber

Did I the tired Caesar.

 

  1. Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,

To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,

 

  1. Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once.

 

  1. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved

Rome more

 

  1. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it

 

  1. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;

A stage where every man must play a part,

And mine a sad one.

 

  1. When Laban and himself were compromised

That all the eanlings which were streak’d and pied

Should fall as Jacob’s hire,

 

  1. All that glitters is not gold;

Often have you heard that told:

Many a man his life hath sold

But my outside to behold:

Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

 

  1. There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,

That steals the colour from Bassanio’s cheek:

Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world

Could turn so much the constitution

Of any constant man

 

  1. The quality of mercy is not strain’d,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

PART – B

 

Write paragraph answers for any FIVE of the following:                                             (5×8=40)

 

  1. Analyse the character of Cassius.
  2. Discuss how the trial scene reveals a conflict between justice and mercy.
  3. Compare the passivity of Desdemona with the other female characters of Shakespeare.
  4. How does Richard II compare with Henry Bolingbroke?
  5. Tragic heroes of Shakespeare.
  6. Role of Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream.
  7. Write a note of the wedding scenes in Merchant of Venice and Midsummer Night’s

Dream.

 

  1. What is the significance of Caesar’s dying words – Et tu Brute?

PART – C

 

Write essays on the following questions in about 300 words each:                    (2×20=40)

 

  1. Discuss the heroines of Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night on comparison with the

heroes of the play.
(OR)

Consider Richard II as a historical play.

 

  1. Who is the true statesman in the play Julius Caesar – Caesar, Antony or Brutus? Argue.

(OR)

Make a Post-colonial analysis of the play Othello.

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