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    The document provides examination questions for English literature courses at the undergraduate 2nd, 4th, and 6th semesters. For the 2nd semester, there are two broad and two short questions on Shakespeare's play Macbeth focusing on the dramatic significance of the sleepwalking scene, porter scene, and opening scene. The 4th semester asks students to analyze how William Blake illustrates dual states of the human soul in Songs of Innocence and Experience and define the concepts of innocence and experience based on the poems. For the 6th semester, one question requires explaining Jacques Derrida's central idea in his essay Structure, Sign and Play or differentiating between structuralism and post-structuralism.

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    The document provides examination questions for English literature courses at the undergraduate 2nd, 4th, and 6th semesters. For the 2nd semester, there are two broad and two short questions on Shakespeare's play Macbeth focusing on the dramatic significance of the sleepwalking scene, porter scene, and opening scene. The 4th semester asks students to analyze how William Blake illustrates dual states of the human soul in Songs of Innocence and Experience and define the concepts of innocence and experience based on the poems. For the 6th semester, one question requires explaining Jacques Derrida's central idea in his essay Structure, Sign and Play or differentiating between structuralism and post-structuralism.

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    English U.G. 2nd Semester: Macbeth: Broad Questions

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    ENGLISH
    U.G. 2nd Semester

    Macbeth: Broad questions


    (1) Analyse the sleep-walking scene and write on its dramatic significance.
    (2) Analyse the porter-scene and bring out its dramatic significance.

    Macbeth: Short questions


    (1) Write a short note on the opening scene in Macbeth.
    (2) What is the significance of the words “Fair is foul, foul is fair”?

    U.G. 4th Semester

    Songs of Innocence and Experience

    (1) How does William Blake illustrate the “two contrary states of the human soul”? Answer
    with reference to the poems you have read.
    (2) What are the concepts of the terms “Innocence” and “Experience”? Answer from the
    poems you have read.

    U.G. 6th Semester


    Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
    (1) Bring out the central idea of Jacques Derrida’s essay Structure, Sign and Play in the
    Discourse of Human Sciences.

    Or,

    Differentiate between structuralism and post-structuralism, including the ways in which


    the latter challenges the premises of the former.

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