Posted: September 14th, 2017

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1. Beckett
Discuss the importance of setting in
Waiting for Godot
and
in
Endgame
.
2. Byrne
Discuss the role of Hector in
The Slab Boys Trilogy
.
3. Chekhov
How effective in your view is the ending of
Uncle Vanya
and
the ending of
The Cherry
Orchard
?
4. Friel
Discuss Friel’s dramatic treatment of fear—fear of change, of abandonment, of the
future—in
Translations
and
in
Dancing at Lughnasa
.
5. Lindsay
Discuss the importance of the character of Diligence in
Ane Satyre of the Thrie
Estaitis
.
6. Lochhead
Discuss Lochhead’s dramatic treatment of power in
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her
Head Chopped Off
and
in
Dracula
.
7. Pinter
How effective in your view is Pinter’s dramatic treatment of political tyranny in
One
for the Road
and
in
Mountain Language
?

(
a
)
Othello
and
Antony and Cleopatra
Make a detailed analysis of the characterisation and role
either
of Desdemona in
Othello
or
of Cleopatra in
Antony and Cleopatra
.
OR
(
b
)
The Winter’s Tale
and
The Tempest
Discuss Shakespeare’s use of the supernatural in
The Winter’s Tale
and
in
The
Tempest
.
9. Stoppard
“
ROSENCRANTZ: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death?
When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been
shattering—stamped into one’s memory. And yet I don’t remember it.
”
(
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
, Act 2)
“
SEPTIMUS: The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.
”
(
Arcadia
, Act 1)
Keeping these two quotations in mind, make a comparative study of the importance of
death as a theme in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
and
in
Arcadia
.
10. Wilde
“
The dandy is Wilde’s trademark as a dramatist: cool, hard-edged, self-absorbed, the
arbiter and exemplar of elegance and wit.
”
Discuss the role of the “dandies”—Lord Darlington, Lord Goring and Algernon
Moncrieff—in
Lady Windermere’s Fan
,
An Ideal Husband
and
The Importance of Being
Earnest
.
11. Williams
Discuss what you consider to be the principal features of Williams’s characterisation of
Chance
and
his characterisation of Princess in
Sweet Bird of Youth
.

12. Burns
Read the following poem carefully and then answer questions
(
a
)
and
(
b
)
that follow it
(
Page five
)
.
THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR
MAILIE, THE AUTHOR’S ONLY PET YOWE
As Mailie, an’ her lambs thegither,
Was ae day nibbling on the tether,
Upon her cloot she coost a hitch,
An’ owre she warsled in the ditch;
There, groaning, dying, she did lie,
When Hughoc he cam doytin by.
Wi glowrin’ een, an lifted han’s,
Poor Hughoc like a statue stan’s;
He saw her days were near-hand ended,
But, wae’s my heart! he could na mend it!
He gapèd wide, but naething spak;
At length poor Mailie silence brak:—
“O thou, whase lamentable face
Appears to mourn my woefu’ case!
My dying words attentive hear,
An’ bear them to my Master dear.
“Tell him, if e’er again he keep
As muckle gear as buy a sheep,—
O bid him never tie them mair
Wi’ wicked strings o’ hemp or hair!
But ca’ them out to park or hill,
An’ let them wander at their will;
So may his flock increase, an’ grow
To scores o’ lambs an’ packs o’ woo’!
“Tell him he was a Master kin’,
An’ aye was guid to me an’ mine;
An’ now my dying charge I gie him,
My helpless lambs, I trust them wi’ him.
“O bid him save their harmless lives
Frae dogs, an’ tods, an’ butchers’ knives!
But gie them guid cow-milk their fill,
Till they be fit to fend themsel:
An’ tent them duly, e’en an’ morn,
Wi’ teats o’ hay an’ ripps o’ corn.
“An’ may they never learn the gates
Of ither vile wanrestfu’ pets—
To slink thro’ slaps, an’ reave an’ steal,
At stacks o’ pease, or stocks o’ kale.
So may they, like their great forbears,

For mony a year come thro’ the shears;
So wives will gie them bits o’ bread,
An’ bairns greet for them when they’re dead
“My poor tup-lamb, my son an’ heir,
O bid him breed up him wi’ care!
An’, if he live to be a beast,
To pit some havins in his breast!
An’ warn him, what I winna name,
To stay content wi’ yowes at hame;
An’ no to rin an’ wear his cloots,
Like ither menseless graceless brutes.
“An’ neist my yowie, silly thing,
Gude keep thee frae a tether string!
O may thou ne’er forgather up
Wi’ ony blastit moorland tup;
But ay keep mind to moop an’ mell,
Wi’ sheep o’ credit like thysel!
“And now, my bairns, wi’ my last breath
I lea’e my blessin wi’ you baith;
An’ when you think upo’ your mither,
Mind to be kind to ane anither.
“Now, honest Hughoc, dinna fail
To tell my master a’ my tale;
An’ bid him burn this cursed tether;
An’, for thy pains, thou’se get my blether.”
This said, poor Mailie turn’d her head,
An’ closed her een amang the dead!
(
a
) Discuss Burns’s use of humour in this poem.
AND
(
b
) Go on to discuss Burns’s use of humour in
one
other poem.
13. Chaucer
In
The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue
, the Host calls on the Nun’s Priest to “
telle us swich
thyng as may oure hertes glade
”.
How effectively does Chaucer make
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
one that “
may oure hertes
glade
”?
14. Donne
Make a detailed analysis of Donne’s treatment of spiritual experience in the following
three poems:
“
Death be not proud . . .
”
Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
Hymne to God my God in my sicknesse.

Read the following poem carefully and then answer questions
(
a
)
and
(
b
)
that follow it.
MOMENTS OF GRACE
I dream through a wordless, familiar place.
The small boat of the day sails into morning,
past the postman with his modest haul, the full trees
which sound like the sea, leaving my hands free
to remember. Moments of grace.
Like this
.
Shaken by first love and kissing a wall.
Of course
.
The dried ink on the palms then ran suddenly wet,
a glistening blue name in each fist. I sit now
in a kind of sly trance, hoping I will not feel me
breathing too close across time. A face to the name.
Gone
.
The chimes of mothers calling in children
at dusk.
Ye s
. It seems we live in those staggering years
only to haunt them; the vanishing scents
and colours of infinite hours like a melting balloon
in earlier hands. The boredom since.
Memory’s caged bird won’t fly. These days
we are adjectives, nouns. In moments of grace
we were verbs, the secret of poems, talented.
A thin skin lies on the language. We stare
deep in the eyes of strangers, look for the doing words.
Now I smell you peeling an orange in the other room.
Now I take off my watch, let a minute unravel
in my hands, listen and look as I do so,
and mild loss opens my lips like
No
.
Passing, you kiss the back of my neck. A blessing.
(
a
) Make a detailed analysis of Duffy’s treatment of love in this poem.
AND
(
b
) Go on to discuss Duffy’s treatment of love in
two
other poems.
16. Heaney
Discuss the uses Heaney makes of the land and the natural world in the following three
poems:
Personal Helicon
Exposure
The Harvest Bow.

EITHER
(
a
) Discuss the importance of the role of the narrator in
The Testament of Cresseid
.
OR
(
b
)
“In
The Morall Fabillis
, Henryson is a master of easy colloquial dialogue,
dramatic irony, wit and word play.”
Discuss
some
or
all
of these features of Henryson’s style in
two
or
three
of
The
Morall Fabillis.
18. Keats
Make a detailed analysis of form and imagery in the following three sonnets:
On first looking into Chapman’s Homer
“When I have fears that I may cease to be . . .”
“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art . . .”
19. MacDiarmid
“
What is striking about MacDiarmid’s poetry is its fusion of lyrical grace and intellectual
force
.”
Discuss
either
with reference to
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
or
with reference
to the other specified poems.
20. Muir
Read the following poem carefully and then answer questions
(
a
)
and
(
b
)
that follow it
(
Page eight
)
.
SCOTLAND’S WINTER
Now the ice lays its smooth claws on the sill,
The sun looks from the hill
Helmed in his winter casket,
And sweeps his arctic sword across the sky.
The water at the mill
Sounds more hoarse and dull.
The miller’s daughter walking by
With frozen fingers soldered to her basket
Seems to be knocking
Upon a hundred leagues of floor
With her light heels, and mocking
Percy and Douglas dead,
And Bruce on his burial bed,
Where he lies white as may
With wars and leprosy,
And all the kings before
This land was kingless,
And all singers before
This land was songless,
This land that with its dead and living waits the Judgement Day.
But they, the powerless dead,
Listening can hear no more
Than a hard tapping on the sounding floor
A little overhead
Of common heels that do not know
Whence they come or where they go
And are content
With their poor frozen life and shallow banishment.
(
a
) Make a detailed analysis of the themes and techniques of this poem.
AND
(
b
) How far are the themes and techniques of this poem characteristic of the themes
and techniques of other poems by Muir?
21. Plath
Read the following poem carefully and then answer questions
(
a
)
and
(
b
)
that follow it
(
Page nine
)
.
BLACKBERRYING
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries
Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly,
A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea
Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, fat
With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.
They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides.
Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks—
Bits of burnt paper wheeling in a blown sky.
Theirs is the only voice, protesting, protesting.
I do not think the sea will appear at all.
The high, green meadows are glowing, as if lit from within.
I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen.
The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven.
One more hook, and then the berries and bushes end.

The only thing to come now is the sea.
From between two hills a sudden wind funnels at me,
Slapping its phantom laundry in my face.
These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.
I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me
To the hills’ northern face, and the face is orange rock
That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space
Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths
Beating and beating at an intractable metal.
(
a
) How effectively in your view does Plath create a sense of menace in this poem?
AND
(
b
) Go on to discuss the means by which Plath creates a sense of menace in
one
or
two
other poems.
22. Yeats
Discuss Yeats’s use of symbolism in
three
or
four
poems.
PROSE FICTION
23. Atwood
“In
Cat’s Eye
and in
Alias Grace
, Atwood’s presentation of women is characterised by
patterns of doubleness and ambiguity.”
Discuss.
24. Austen
Make a comparative study of Austen’s treatment of marriage in
Pride and Prejudice
and
in
Persuasion
.
25. Dickens
Discuss Dickens’s treatment of childhood experience and education in
Hard Times
or
in
Great Expectations
or
in both novels.
26. Fitzgerald
Discuss Fitzgerald’s treatment of illusion and reality in
The Beautiful and Damned
and
in
Tender is the Night
.
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