MEG-2 Solved Assignment 2026-27

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IGNOU MEG-2 Solved Assignment 2026-27

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH (MEG)

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ENGLISH ONLINE (MEGOL)

ASSIGNMENT
(For July, 2026 and January, 2027 Session)
BRITISH DRAMA: MEG-02

MEG 02: BRITISH DRAMA
Assignment
July 2026 and January 2027 Sessions
(Based on Blocks (1-9)
MEG-02/TMA 01/2026-27
Max. Marks: 100

Instructions
Section A is compulsory.
Attempt any four questions from Section B.
Answer each question according to the prescribed word limit.
Support your answers with relevant textual references and critical arguments wherever appropriate.

Section A
1. Critically comment on the following passages with reference to their context, significance, and dramatic implications, in not more than 150 words each: 4 × 5 = 20
a. “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
b. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
c. “The play’s the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
d. “Nothing to be done.”

Section B
Attempt any four of the following questions. 4 × 20 = 80
1. Discuss Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance drama. How does Marlowe present the conflict between medieval Christian morality and the Renaissance spirit of individual aspiration, knowledge, and ambition?
2. Examine the significance of the supernatural and the world of dreams in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. How does Shakespeare use the fairy world to question and transform the experiences of the human characters?
3. “Hamlet is a play about the difficulty of translating thought into action.” Discuss this statement with reference to Hamlet’s character, his soliloquies, and his response to his father’s murder.
4. Discuss The Alchemist as a satire on human greed, credulity, and social ambition. How does Ben Jonson use deception and comic intrigue to expose the weaknesses of his society?
5. Examine the significance of language, storytelling, and reputation in The Playboy of the Western World. How does Christy Mahon’s transformation reveal the power of storytelling in shaping individual identity?
6. Analyse Pygmalion as a critique of class and social hierarchy. How does Shaw use Eliza Doolittle’s transformation to raise questions about language, identity, education, and social mobility?
7. Discuss the conflict between individual conscience and institutional authority in T. S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. How does Thomas Becket’s understanding of martyrdom develop through the play?
8. Examine Look Back in Anger as a representation of post-war British society. How do class, education, marriage, gender, and generational tensions shape Jimmy Porter’s anger and alienation?
9. Discuss Waiting for Godot as a significant example of the Theatre of the Absurd. How does Beckett use repetition, silence, circular structure, uncertainty, and humour to represent the human condition?
10. Write short notes on any two of the following in about 200 words each: 2 × 10 = 20
a. The role of the Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral
b. The significance of the title Pygmalion
c. The theme of illusion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d. The significance of the setting in Look Back in Anger
e. The role of the Foolishness and deception in The Alchemist
f. The significance of silence and pause in Waiting for Godot
g. The theme of ambition in Doctor Faustus
h. The construction of heroic identity in The Playboy of the Western World

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