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MEG 02 MA English Ignou assignment 2024

Course : MA ENGLISH
Session 2024
Submission date : 30th October 2024

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Section A
1. Critically comment on the following passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each: (4×5=20)
(a) O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven, It had the primal eldest curse upon’t A
brother’s murder! Pray can I not. Though inclination be as sharp as will.
(b) Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: relation to her is too godlike to be altogether
agreeable.
(c) What boots it then to think of God or heaven ? Away with such fancies and despair;
Despairin God, and trust in Beelzebub … Abjure this magic, turn to God again.
(d) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth
Down in the hole, lingeringly,
the gravedigger puts on the forceps.
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

MEG 02 MA English Ignou assignment 2024

Section B
1. “Beckett rejects the received logic of form and conventional structure.” Critically comment.
(20)
2. Discuss the typical Shakespearean comic elements in the play in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.
(20)
3. What do you think is the dominant quality of Hamlet’s character? Discuss with suitable
examples. (20)
4. Can The Alchemist be understood as a satire? Give suitable examples. (20)

5. Discuss the play Pygmalion as a romance? Elaborate. (20)

MEG 02 MA English Ignou assignment 2024

6. Discuss the art of characterisation in The Playboy of the Western World? (20)
7. Discuss Murder in the Cathedral as a poetic drama. (20)
8. Comment on the historical significance of Look Back in Anger. (20)

9. Discuss the Romantic and Modernist conceptions of character in the presentation of Jimmy
as the play’s protagonist.