Meg 02 Assignment July 2023 - January 2024
Meg 02 Assignment July 2023 - January 2024
Meg 02 Assignment July 2023 - January 2024
ASSIGNMENT
(For July, 2023 and January, 2024 Session)
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068
ASSIGNMENT
For
MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH ONLINE
BRITISH DRAMA (MEG-02)
Programme: MEG
Course Code: MEG-02
Dear Student,
You will have to attempt a single assignment for the Master’s Degree in English (MEG-02).
The assignment is a Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) and carries 100 marks. It will be
based on blocks 1 to 9. The number of choices has been restricted in order to ensure that
you read the study materials thoroughly and attempt some independent critical thinking.
Aims: The TMA is concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of
the course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the
course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired
during the course of study. The assignment aims to teach as well as to assess your
performance. Please ensure that you read the three novels, one play as well as the short
stories and poems that have been prescribed for this course.
Instructions: Before attempting the questions please read the following instructions
carefully.
1. Read the detailed instructions about the assignment given in the Programme Guide
for Elective Courses.
2. Write your Enrolment Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right corner
of the first page of your response sheet(s).
3. Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you
are attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s).
The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:
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4. Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully.
1. Planning: Read the questions carefully. Go through the points on which they are
based. Make some points regarding each question and then rearrange these in a
logical order. And please write the answers in your own words. Do not reproduce
passages from the units.
3. Presentation: Once you are satisfied with your answers, you can write down the
final version for submission, writing each answer neatly and underlining the
points you wish to emphasize.
Note: You may be aware that you need to submit your assignment before you
can appear for the Term End Exams. Please remember to keep a copy of your
completed assignment, just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit.
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MEG 02:BRITISH DRAMA
(Based on Blocks (1-9)
MEG-02/TMA 01/2023-24
Max. Marks: 100
Section A
1. Critically comment on the following passages with reference to the context, in not
more than 150 words each: (4x5=20)
(a) O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven, It had the primal eldest curse upon't A
brother's murder! Pray can I not. Though inclination be as sharp as will.
(b) Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: relation to her is too godlike to be altogether
agreeable.
(c) What boots it then to think of God or heaven ? Away with such fancies and despair;
Despairin God, and trust in Beelzebub ... Abjure this magic, turn to God again.
Section B
1. "Beckett rejects the received logic of form and conventional structure." Critically comment.
(20)
2. Discuss the typical Shakespearean comic elements in the play in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.
(20)
3. What do you think is the dominant quality of Hamlet’s character? Discuss with suitable
examples. (20)
6. Discuss the art of characterisation in The Playboy of the Western World? (20)
9. Discuss the Romantic and Modernist conceptions of character in the presentation of Jimmy
as the play's protagonist. (20)