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Questions:

1. What is dramatic irony?
2. What do you understand by dramatic relief? Give instances from 'Macbeth'.
3. Write four important features of Shakespearean tragedy.
4. Explain the line: 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'.
5. What do you understand by 'drama of ideas'?
6. Who utters 'what a man! Is he a man!' and what does it mean?
7. What is the historical background of the play 'Arms and the Man'?
8. What is the source of the title of 'Far from the Madding Crowd'?
9. What do you know about Wessex?
10. Whom do you consider the villain in the novel 'Far from the Madding Crowd'? Give reasons.
11. Explain the lines: 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas in incarnadine, making the green one red'.
12. Explain the lines: 'But in these cases, we still have judgements here, that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught return to plague the inventor'.
13. Explain the lines: 'And oftentimes, to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence'.
14. Explain the lines: 'A narrow shave; but a miss is as good as a mile dear young lady, your servant to death. Wish for your sake. I had joined the Bulgarian army instead of the other one'.
15. Explain the lines: '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-martialed for it'.
16. Explain the lines: 'Child; you don't know the power such high people have over the like of you and me when we try to rise out of our poverty against them'.
17. Bring out the significance of the sleep-walking scene in 'Macbeth'.
18. Sketch the character of Raina in 'Arms and the Man'.
19. Write a note on the significance of the title of 'Arms and the Man'.
20. Write a note on the role of chance in 'Far from the Madding Crowd'.
21. Write a note on Shakespearean tragedy with special reference to 'Macbeth'.
22. Write a note on George Bernard Shaw as a dramatist.
23. Discuss Hardy's philosophy of life with special reference to the novel you have read.