BEGC-113 2024-25 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BEGC-113 Modern European Drama
Course Code: BEGC113/TMA/2024-25
Max. Marks: 100
This assignment has two sections, A and B.
Section A is compulsory. Attempt three questions from Section B.
Attempt five questions in all.
All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
1. Write notes on any two of the following (250 words each):
i) Transformation of Characters in Rhinoceros
ii) The Concept of Existentialism in Waiting for Godott
iii) Symbolism in Ibsen’s Ghosts
10×2=20
2. Critically examine, with reference to the context, any two of the following: 10×2=20
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic.
Where’s your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that’s
best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s
all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality,
but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
To be good to you, my son,
I shall be a tigress to all others.
Vladimir: I don’t understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can’t you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.
SECTION B
Answer any three of the following questions:
1. Analyze Ghosts as a problem play in the context of 19th-century society. How does
Ibsen use the characters and plot to critique moral, social, and institutional
conventions?
20
2. Write a detailed note of Characterization in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of
Szechuan.
20
3. Analyze the transition from Romanticism to Realism and Naturalism. In what ways
did the socio-political upheavals of the French Revolution influence this shift in
literary style and themes?
20
4. How does Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot embody the characteristics of the
Theatre of the Absurd? Discuss with reference to its themes, structure, and
characters.
20
5. Analyze how Beckett and Ionesco use absurdity to address themes of existence,
conformity, and individual agency in a modern, often meaningless, world.