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IGNOU MEG 02 Important Questions with Solutions for December 2023 Exams

1. Critically comment on any four of the following passages with reference to the context in about 150 words each :

(a) There are things in this comedy of Pyramus
and Thisbe that will never please. First,
Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself,
which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you
that ?

(b) When all your alchemy and your algebra,
Your minerals, vegetals, and animals,
Your conjuring, cozening, and your
dozens of trades,
Could not relieve your corpse with so
much linen.

(c) They know and do not know,
what it is to act or suffer
They know and do not know,
that acting is suffering
And suffering is action.

(d) I’m in the fire and I’m burning, and all I
want is to die ! … But what does it
matter  this is what he wanted from me !

(e) Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down
in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger
puts on the forceps. We have time to grow
old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a
great deadener.

2. Critically examine Doctor Faustus as a tragedy of human heroism.
OR
Analyse the structure of The Alchemist.
3. ‘‘To be, or not to be: that is the question.’’ Critically examine Hamlet in light of this statement.
OR
Discuss the four temptations that Becket undergoes in Murder in the Cathedral.
4. Examine Shakespeare’s presentation of women in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
OR
‘‘The Playboy is neither a comedy nor a tragedy but a bit of both.’’ Discuss the play in the context of this statement.
5. Critically comment on Lucky’s speech in Waiting for Godot.
OR
Discuss Pygmalion as a play that denounces social snobbery and class distinctions.
6. ‘‘Look Back in Anger functions as a site for a discussion of class and/or gender issues.’’ Discuss.
OR
Critically examine the role of the Renaissance in he growth of Elizabethan drama.

7. Write short notes on any two of the following in about 200 words each :
(a) Bottom
(b) Eliot’s ‘‘The Three Voices of Poetry’’
(c) The Theatre of the Absurd
(d) Widow Quin

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