Attempt any FOUR questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following.
(i) You needn't bother; I saw the pistols Loveborg had when they found him. I recognized it at once. From yesterday and other occasions.
(ii) You must try to understand. Things have changed it used to be just the gentry but now there's new sort of visitor ... who to come here in summer.
(iii) What do you want to explain? You are fully in line with the Holy Congregation's decree of 1616. You cannot be faulted.
(iv) Is there anything I can do, that's what I ask myself, to cheer them up? I have given them bones, I have talked to them about this and that, I have explained the twilight, admittedly.
(v) Then create room. Don't you aspire to be an artist? Think of the miners who spend their lives crawling through darkness so that you may have light ...
2. "The demon in Hedda wants to influence one but when it happens she disposes him." Discuss Hedda's character in the light of this comment.
3. How far would you agree that The Cherry Orchard represents a conflict between modernity and traditional Russian society? Elaborate your answer.
4. Critically examine the play Galileo Galilei in the light of Epic Theatre.
5. What is the dramatic significance of little games that characters play in Waiting for Godot?
6. "Men are not innately violent but are driven to react violently when they feel trapped within an irrational and inhuman political system or when they are too frightened to admit the possibility of change". Comment on this statement in the light of the play The Sea.
7. Write a critical note on the following.
(i) The Opening Scene of The Sea
(ii) The Character of Thea in Hedda Gabler
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