Ques 1.

“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’ other.”

Ques 2.

Out, damned spot: out I say! One, Two: Why then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, My Lord, fie! A soldier, and affear’d? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to accompt”?

Ques 3.

did it like an operatic tenor—a regular handsome fellow, with flashing eyes and lovely moustache, shouting a war-cry and charging like Don Quixote at the windmills. We nearly burst with laughter at him; but when the sergeant ran up as white as a sheet, and told us they’d sent us the wrong cartridges, and that we couldn’t fire a shot for the next ten minutes, we laughed at the other side of mouths.”

Ques 4.

he old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me? I have lived my life, and that which I have done May He within himself make pure!”

Ques 5.

Characterisation in Far from the Madding Crowd.

Ques 6.

The ‘Banquet Scene’ in Macbeth

Ques 7.

Tennyson as a representative poet of Victorian England.

Ques 8.

Bernard Shaw and the ‘discussion play’.

Ques 9.

Arms and the Man is considered to be an ‘anti-romantic comedy’”. Do you agree?

Ques 10.

What are the main themes of Tennyson’s poem “Morte d’Arthur’? Briefly explain the allegorical significance of the poem

Ques 11.

Write a brief critical appreciation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far from the Madding Crowd, bringing out the significance of the landscape of Wessex in the novel