Section A
1. Write short answers of the following questions. (15)
(i) How has Arthur Rimbaud revealed the secret of spiritual exaltation in his poem "Eternity"?
(ii) How does the meaning of the picture of the woman in furs change over the course of the story "Metamorphosis"?
(iii) What factors did contribute towards insanity of Dr. Ragin in the story "Ward Number Six"?
Section B
2. Answer the following questions in detail. (45)
(i) Define the alienation or "distanciation" effect. Discuss with reference to Brecht's "Mother Courage".
(ii) What does Sartre mean by "existence procedes essence"? How does this doctrine figure into Roquentin's Nausea?
(iii) "Pirandello has depicted vividly on stage how the theatre utterly fails to fully portray either the idea of reality or that of illusion fully, but that it rather struggles to put forth a mix of the two together". Elaborate with reference to the play "Six Characters in Search of an Author".
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