CLASS: M.A. ENGLISH LIT.
12N/390
St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – NOVEMBER 2012
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
I
2012
12PEN1201A
SHAKESPEARE
SECTION – A
Answer any TEN questions in about one or two sentences
each:
10 x 2 = 20
1.
Who is the protagonist of the play Twelfth Night?
2.
What is the major conflict of the play Twelfth Night?
3.
Name the metre used by Shakespeare in his Sonnets.
4.
Comment on the setting (place) of the play Othello.
5.
What are the major conflicts portrayed in the play Othello?
6.
What is the theme of Sonnet – 116?
7.
What are the sources of the play Richard II?
8.
Mention the date and text of the play Richard II.
9.
State whether the play Richard II is a history or tragedy.
10.
Comment on the tone of the play The Merchant of Venice.
11.
Mention the setting (place) of the play The Merchant of Venice.
12.
Who is the protagonist of the play The Merchant of Venice?
13.
What is the setting (place) of the play The Tempest?
14.
Explain ‘rising action’ of the play The Tempest.
15.
Explain the climax of the play The Tempest.
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
Annotate the following:
16.
a.
Nobody; I myself; farewell:
Comment me to my kind lord. O! farewell!
5 x 8 = 40
OR
17.
b.
There is no woman’s sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart
So big, to hold so much. They lack retention.
Alas, their love may be called appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt.
a.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
OR
b.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Answer the following in about 200 words each:
18.
a.
What is the role of women in the play Richard II?
OR
19.
b.
a.
20.
b.
a.
Richard II is almost completely written in verse. What effect do you think this has?
In the end, how comic is The Merchant of Venice? Does the final act succeed in restoring
comedy to the play?
OR
Analyze the character of Shylock.
What
element
of
‘foreshadowing’
do
you
find
in
the
play
The Tempest?
OR
Explain ‘falling action’ of the play The Tempest.
SECTION – C
Answer all the questions in about 500 words each:
2 x 20 = 40
21. a. Comment on the theme of Sonnet – 60.
OR
b. What role does incoherent language play in Othello? How does Othello’s language
change over the course of the play?
22. a. Explain the following symbols: The Tempest, The Games of Chess, Prospero’s Books
that appear in the play The Tempest.
OR
b. The Divine Quality of Mercy as portrayed by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice.
b.
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