DOLL HOUSE

1 Write a note on Nils Krogstad in A Doll sHouse

2 Critically comment on the significance of the title A Doll s House with reference to the themes in
the (15) play.

3 3. Read the following extract and answer the 2 questions that follow: "Helmer: Is that my little sky-
lark chirruping out there? Nora: Yes, it is. Helmer: Is that my little squirrel frisking about: Nora: Yes!
Helmer: When did my little squirrel get home? Nora: Just this minute." (a) What does his use of
expressions like 'my little squirrel, my little lark" for Nora indicate about Helmer? (5) 3292 3 (b) Do
you agree that Nora is 'conditioned' to aC like a doll? Give reasons for your answer. (

4 A Doll's House highlights many social issues of the time. Discuss the themes and the techniques
used by Ibsen with reference to this statement.

5 Critically comment on the significance of the title, A Doll’s House.

MOTHER COURAGE

1 Read the extract and answer the questions that follow Mother Courage: [Kattrin] Be reasonable,
the war will go on a little longer and we will make a little more money, then peace will be even
better. Run along the town now, it won't take you ten minutes, and get the stuff from the Golden
Lion, only the expensive things. The Chaplin: Is it alright letting her go with the clerk? Mother
Courage: Who'd want to ruin her? She's not pretty enough. The Chaplin: I've come to admire the way
you handle your business...I can see why they call you Mother Courage.

a) Comment on the ideas of war and peace accoRDING to Mother Courage.

(b) Comment on the Chaplin's observation "I can “why they call you Mother Courage.

2 Write a note on the relationship between Mother Courage and her children in Brecht's Mother
Courage and Her Children.

3 Write a note on Epic Theatre with reference to Mother Courage and Her Children.

4 DIscus the significance of the title Mother Courage and Her Children with reference to the theme
of war in the (15) play.

5 (ii) The last scene in Mother Courage.

6 Comment on the title of Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children.

7 Discuss the presentation of war in Brecht's Móther Courage and her Children.

8 Yvette Pottier Or Mother Courage and the wagon or War in Mother Courage OR Kattrin or eiliff
(short note)
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10 Why does Brecht use the Thirty Years War as a setting for Mother Courage and her Children ?

11 Analyse the significance of the title, Mother Courage and her Children. Who do you think really
displays courage in the play

12 Discuss the role of Chaplain in Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children.

13 Do you think Mother Courage is the heroine of Brecht's play ?

14 . Discuss the play Mother Courage and her Children as a powerful anti-war statement

15 Read the extract and answer the questions that follow Mother Courage: [Kattrin] Be reasonable,
the war will go on a little longer and we will make a little more money, then peace will be even
better. Run along the town now, it won't take you ten minutes, and get the stuff from the Golden
Lion, only the expensive things. The Chaplin: Is it alright letting her go with the clerk? Mother
Courage: Who'd want to ruin her? She's not pretty enough. The Chaplin: I've come to admire the way
you handle your business...I can see why they call you Mother Courage. 3206 3 a) Comment on the
ideas of war and peace acco (5) to Mother Courage. (b) Comment on the Chaplin's observation "I can
see why they call you Mother Courage.

WEDDING ALBUM

1 Write a note on the relationship between Vidula 5 Nadkarni and Ashwin.

2 Comment on the use of technology as an effective 6. dramatic device in Girish Karnad's Wedding
Album

3 The play Wedding Album by Girish Karnad explores 6. the complex relationship, between
modernity and tradition in a middle-class, upper-caste Hindu family. Critically comment on the play in
the light of this statement.

4 Discuss Karnad's presentation of marriage in Wedding Album.

5 Girish Karnad's Wedding Album, through the Nadkarni family exposes the double standards of
social institutions such as marriage.

6 Discuss the scene in the cyber cafe in Karnad's Wedding Album.

7Critically comment on Wedding Album as a play that makes use of the "modern myth"

8 Comment on the significance of the title, of Girish Karnad's Wedding Album.

9 In Wedding Album, Karnad exposes the hypocrisies of middle class society and its charade of
weddings Comment critically.

10 Discuss Wedding Album as a critique of "bourgeois morality and its cultural blindness".

11Comment on Karnad's views on marriage as seen in Wedding Album.

12 1. Discuss Karnad's presentation of marriage in the Wedding Album

1 Mahesh Dattani's play Final Solutions is not confined 7. to exploring communal prejudice, it also
outlines thE problems created by patriarchy in an Indian familY(15) Discuss.

2 Write a note on Smita's character in Dattani's Final (10) 4. Solutions.

3 Critically discuss the themes explored by Dattani in 8 his play Final (15) Solutions.

4 Critically comment on Ramanik's character in Dattani's Final Solutions.

5 Do you think Dattani's Final Solutions presents answers to the problems posed in the play ? Give
reasons for your answer.

6 Critically discuss the problems posed in Dattani's Final Solutions.

7What is the significance of Daksha's diary in Final Solutions.

8 "But this is above all a play about a family with its simmering undercurrents". Discuss Final
Solutions in the light of this statement

9 What is the relevance of Daksha' diary in Final Solutions?

10 Analyse the ending of. Dattani's Final Solutions.

11 Comment on Dattani's views on the mob in Final Solutions.

12 The Chorus in Final Solution

13 Analyse the role played by the women in Dattani's Final Solutions.

14 "The mob in the play is symbolic of our own hatred and paranoia." Discuss Final Solutions in the
light of this statement

15 The Mob in Final Solutions short note

16 Discuss and elaborate on Dattani's Final Solutions as a play about communal identity.

17 . Mahesh Dattani’s play Final Solutions is not confined to exploring communal prejudice, it also
outlines the problems created by patriarchy in an Indian family. Discuss

18 Identify, contextualize and comment critically on the 2 following extract: "The tragedy is that
there is too much that is sacred. But if we understand and believe in one another, nothing can be
destroyed. And if you are willing to forget, I am willing to tolerate."
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1. Discuss Karnad's presentation of marriage in the Wedding Album. 2. Mahesh Dattani’s play
Final Solutions is not confined to exploring communal prejudice, it also outlines the
problems created by patriarchy in an Indian family. Discuss. 3. Critically comment on the
significance of the title, A Doll’s House. 1. Discuss the play Mother Courage and her Children
as a powerful anti-war statement. 2. What makes Modern Drama 'modern'? Discuss with
reference to the plays in your course. 3. Enumerate any three features of Epic theatre and
describe how they challenged existing stage conventions.

Un identifies questions

1 Identify, contextualize and comment critically on the following extract: "You know Isabel has been
in Bangalore for the past six months. But you phoned 1. P.T.O 2 3206 her ten days ago. And invited
her home. To dinner. On the day when your wife left for Hyderabad! You didn't mention that you
were alone at home. But she knows you welI " (10

2 modern Indian theatre seeks to explore and represent contemporary socio-political and cultural
realities while experimenting with the dramatic form. Comment On this with reference to any one
play in your (15) course.