Assignment Code: MEG-2/TMA-2/2005

Coverage: Blocks 6-9

Maximum Marks: 100

1. Comment on the following passages with reference to the context in about 150 words each. (4x5=20)

(i) "Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?"

(ii) Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time? One day, is that not enough for you, one day like any other day: One day he went dumb …..one day we are born, one day we'll die, the same day, the same second…

(iii) It is not I who insult the king.
And there is higher than I for the King.
It is not I, Becket from Cheapsides".

(iv) I keep looking back, as far as I remember, and I can't think what it was to feel Young & really Young.

Answer the following questions in approx. 500 words each.

2. Do you think Pygmalion is a play only about speech and phonetics? (20)

3. What is existentialism? Does Godot befit the existentialist thought? (20)

4. Comment on Eliot's use of Greek and Medieval Sources for his play, Murder in the Cathedral. (20)

5. How do the characters in Look Back In Anger function as 'Sites' for a discussion of class and / or gender? (20)