Prescribed Play - ISC Class 12 English Literature Questions with Answers, Page 2

Antonio : O, out of that no hope, What great hope have you? No hope that way is Another way so high a hope that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubt discovery there.

Give a vivid description of the events that occur in the first scene of the play ‘The Tempest’.

Referring closely to the relevant scenes in the play, describe how Antonio convinces Sebastian to murder Alonso? How is the conspiracy foiled?

Stephano : Put off that gown, Trinculo [Reaches for it]. By this hand, I’ll have that gown. Trinculo : Thy grace shall have it. Caliban : The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean To dote thus on such luggage? Let’t alone, And do the murder first. If he awake, From toe to crown he’ll fill our skins with pinches Make us strange stuff.

Morell : What have I done – or not done – my love? Candida : (With serious vexation) my own particular pet scrubbing brush has been used for blackleading. (A heart breaking wail bursts from Marchbanks. Burgess looks round amazed. Candida hurries to the sofa) Whats the matter? Are you ill Eugene? Marchbanks : No; not ill. Only horror! horror! horror! (He bows his head on his hands).

Prospero : Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform’d; but there’s more work. What is the time o’ th day? Ariel : Past the mid-season. Prospero : At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. Ariel : Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised Which is not yet perform’d me.

Referring closely to the first Act of the play ‘Candida’, give an account of the conversation between ‘Lexy’ or Rev Alexander Mill.

Referring closely to the second act of the play ‘Candida’, answer the following: What does the conversation reveal about Proserpine and Burgess?

Referring closely to the conversation between Prospero and Miranda in Act 1 Scene ii, answer the following: How does Miranda react to this tale? What is Prospero’s purpose in telling her this tale?

Morell : (snapping his fingers) Thats nothing. Have you raised the wages? Burgess : (triumphantly) Yes. Morell : What! Burgess : (unctuously) Ive turned a moddle hemployer. I dont hemploy no women now: theyre all sacked; and the work is done by machinery. Not a man ’as less than sixpence a hour; and the skilled ands gits the Trade Union rate. (Proudly) What are you to say to me now?

Marchbanks (seriously) : I suppose a machine could be made to write love letters. They’re all the same, aren’t they? Proserpine : (somewhat indignantly; any such discussion, except by way of pleasantry, being outside her code of manners) How do I know? Why do you ask me? Marchbanks : I beg your pardon. I thought clever people- people who can do business and that sort of thing- always had to have love affairs to keep them from going mad.

Referring closely to the conversation between Prospero and Miranda in Act 1 Scene ii, answer the following: What do you conclude about Prospero from this conversation?

Miss Proserpine Garrett is a true representative of the middle class who inspires pity as well as admiration. Give your views with reference to the play.

Marchbanks : I was afraid of making you uneasy too. It looked as if it were a weapon. If I were a hero of old, I should have laid my drawn sword between us. If Morell had come in, he would have thought you had taken up the poker because there was no sword between us. Candida (wondering) : What? (With a puzzled glance at him) I can’t quite follow that. Those sonnets of yours have perfectly addled me. Why should there be a sword between us?

Antonio : Then let us both be sudden. Gonzalo : (Waking) Now, good angels Preserve the king! Alonso : Why, how now? Ho! Awake? Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? Gonzalo : What’s the matter?

Morell : (With proud humility) I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman. Candida : (quiet quietly) And you Eugene? What do you offer?

Miranda is a perfect blend of innocence and determination. Discuss her role in the play with close reference to the text.

Referring closely to the conversation between Prospero and Miranda in Act 1 Scene ii, answer the following: Narrate what Prospero tells Miranda about his past and the circumstances which brought him to the island.

What do you conclude about Proserpine and Candida from the conversation?

Burgess is presented as a blackguard yet he has certain likeable traits. Give your views with examples from the play.