IGNOU BEGC-113 - Modern European Drama

SECTION A 1. Write notes on any two of the following (250 words each): i) Berenzer in Rhinoceros ii) Structure of the Play Waiting for Godot iii) Enlightenment Movement and their influence on the literary movements 2. Critically examine, with reference to the context, any two of the following: Daisy: They’re singing. Berenger: they’re roaring, I tell you. Daisy: you’re mad; they’re singing To win one’s mid-day meal One needs the toughness which elsewhere builds empires. Except twelve others be trampled down The unfortunate cannot be helped. Vladimir: Pull on your trousers. Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers? Again, "Let's go". (They do not move) SECTION B Answer any three of the following questions: 1. Eugène Ionesco’s Art of Drama creates a unique image which suggests Universalism 2. Write a detailed note of Characterization in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Szechuan. 3. Discuss the effects of the French Revolution and the Romantic Movement on Realism and Naturalism. 4. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an Existentialist play?

SECTION A 1. Write notes on any two of the following (250 words each): i) Tragedy and Heroism in Rhinoceros ii) Structure of the Play Waiting for Godot iii) Characterization in Ibsen’s Ghosts 2. Critically examine, with reference to the context, any two of the following: Daisy: They’re singing. Berenger: they’re roaring, I tell you. Daisy: you’re mad; they’re singing To win one’s mid-day meal One needs the toughness which elsewhere builds empires. Except twelve others be trampled down The unfortunate cannot be helped. Vladimir: Pull on your trousers. Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers? Again, "Let's go". (They do not move) SECTION B Answer any three of the following questions: 1. Discuss Ghosts as a Problem play. 2. Write a detailed note of Characterization in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Szechuan. 3. Discuss the effects of the French Revolution and the Romantic Movement on Realism and Naturalism. 4. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurdist play?