Honours 3rd Year Exam 2023 Held 2025
Department: English
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: 231101
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B-Part

  1. What was the last piece of advice of the Duchess to Cariola, regarding her children? 100%
  2. What melodramatic elements do you find in “The Duchess of Malfi”? 100%
  3. Write a note on the significance of the soliloquies of Macbeth. 100%
  4. Describe Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking scene. 100%
  5. Comment on Lady Macbeth’s sleep-walking scene. 100%
  6. What prophecies do the Witches make about Macbeth and Banquo? 100%
  7. What is the significance of the Seven Deadly Sins in ‘Doctor Faustus’?100%
  8. What do Good Angel and Evil Angel allegorisand Evil fe Doctor Faustus? significance of the Good Angel and Evil Ange. 100%
  9. Describe the Helen episode in Doctor Faustus. 99%
  10. What are the five conditions Faustus sets down in the contract? 99%
  11. Do you think Shylock deserves what happens to him in the play? 99%
  12. How does Volpone worship his gold? 99%
  13. How does Volpone earn money and gold/ wealth? 99%
  14. Discuss the role of Mosca as a master manipulator. 99%
  15. How does Bonario protect Celia in Valpone’s room? 99%
  16. What are the tortures inflicted upon the Duchess during imprisonment? Or Write a short note on “Melodrama’. 99%

C-Part

  1. Comment on the dramatic significance of the last scene in ‘Doctor Faustus’. 100%
  2. Justify Dr. Faustus as an embodiment of Renaissance spirit. 100%
  3. Is Faustus’s damnation justified? Discuss. 100%
  4. Evaluate Macbeth as a tragic hero. 100%
  5. To what extent do the witches influence Macbeth’s decision and action? Discuss. 100%
  6. Justify ‘Volpone’ as a beast fable. 100%
  7. Sketch the character of Mosca in the play ‘Volpone’. 100%
  8. Why is The Duchess of Malfi’ called a decadent play? How has the personality of the Duchess been glorified through her untold sufferings? Discuss. 100%
  9. Comment on the inner conflict experienced by Faustus. 99%
  10. Write a composition on Shakespeare’s use of supernatural elements in Macbeth. 99%
  11. Analyze the role of Portia in the play “The Merchant of Venice. 99%
  12. Evaluate The Merchant of Venice’ as a tragi-comedy. 99%
  13. Write a note on the theme of friendship and loyalty in T Merchant of Venice’.99%
  14. Discuss the theme of avarice in ‘Volpone’. 99%
    15.What is dramatic irony? Write a synopsis on the use of dramatic irony in ‘Volpone’.99%
    16.Discuss ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ as a revenge tragedy. 99%
    17.Comment on Webster’s use of imagery in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’. 99%