IGNOU BEGC-133 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.Explain any four of the following passages with reference to the context (around 150 words each) : 4×8=32 To prick the sides of my intent but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other.” [ 2 ] BEGC–133

(ii) “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh ! Oh ! Oh !”

(iii) “And there was Don Quixote, flourishing like a drum major, thinking he’d done the cleverest thing ever known, where as he ought to be court -martialled for it. Of all the fools ever let loose on a field of battle, that man must be the very maddest.”

(iv) “But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic,wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish’d him Three times, and drew him under in the mere.” [ 3 ] BEGC–133

(v) “For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those Who call them friend ?”

Q2.Write short notes on any four of the following (around 100 words each) : 4×6=24

(i) Theatre in the Elizabethan period

(ii) The three p hases of Thomas Hardy’s writing

(iii) The ‘Porter scene’ in Macbeth

(iv) The influence of Ibsen on the drama of George Bernard Shaw [ 4 ] BEGC–133

(v) Class distinctions in the play Arms and the Man

Q3.Write short essay s on any two of the following in around 200 words each : 2×12=24

(i) In your opinion, what role do the witches play in Macbeth ?

(ii) Describe the characteristics of Victorian poetry a nd point out how it is different from Romantic poetry.

(iii) Explain how Bern ard Shaw deals with the theme of love in Arms and the Man.

Q4.Answer any one of the following in around 300 words : 20

(i) Write an essay on the characters i n Hardy’s novel F ar From the Madding Crowd and show how together they create [ 5 ] B EGC–133 a picture of rural English society of the nineteenth century.

(ii) What are the medieval values highlighted in the poem ‘Morte d’Arthur’ ? How does Tennyson relate them to the Victorian age ?