HEDDA GABLER PAST PAPERS

HEDDA GABLER PAST PAPERS

1. Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the following passages:

(1) You needn't bother. I saw the pistol Loevborg had when they found him. I recognized it at once. From yesterday. And other occasions.(2004)

2. Yes, but have you noticed how strong and healthy she's looking? And how she's filled out since, we went away?(2005)

3. (nervously, walking across the room) Sometimes a mood like that hits me. And I can't stop myself. (Throws herself down in the armchair by the stove.) Oh, I don't know how to explain it.(2006)

4. You can stand there and say that! No further use for me! Surely I can go on helping you? We'll go on working together, won't we?(2007)

5. Apparently he put up a very violent resistance. Hit one of the constables on the ear and tore his uniform. He had to accompany them to the police station.(2008)

6. Vine leaves? No, I didn't see any of them. He made a long, rambling oration in honour of the woman who'd inspired him to write this book. Yes, those were the words he used.(2009)

7. He was there this afternoon. He went to demand something he said they had stolen from him. He talked wildly about some child that had disappeared. (2010)

8. On, nonsense! You're going to have tea first, you little fool! And then --- at ten'o clock --- Eilert Lovborg will be here with vine of leaves in his hair.(2010-SUPP)

9. Quite irreproachably, I assure you. In every respect. All the same --- I'm dreadfully frightened something may happen to him. (2011)

10. Yes. Good heavens, I always looking forward to it all so much. To seeing you play hostess to a select circle! By Jove! What? Ah, well, for the time being we shall have to make do with each other's company.(2011-SUPP)

11. Do you find it so incredible that a young girl, given the chance in secret, should want to be allowed a glimpse into a forbidden world of whose existence she is supported to be ignorant?(2012)

12. Yes, it's got the odour of death about it. It reminds me of the flowers one has worn at a ball --- the morning after.(2012-SUPP)

13. He'll be here. I can see him. With a crown if vine leaves in his hair. Burning and unashamed.(2013)

14. Do you find it so incredible that a young girl, given the chance in secret, should want to be allowed a glimpse into a forbidden world of whose existence she is supposed to be ignorant?(2014)

15. Yes, it's got the odour of death about it. It reminds me of the followers one has worn at a ball the morning after.(2015)

PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

1. The play Hedda Gabler is the product of a mind deeply preoccupied with the nature of power, particularly the power of one mind to influence and impose itself upon another. Discuss.(2004)

2. Write a critical note on the following topics:

(i) The character of Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard.
(ii) The character of Loevborg in Hedda Gabler. (2004)

3. "The daemon of Hedda is that she wants to influence another human being, but once that has happened she despises him". Do you agree? Give arguments to support your answer.(2005)

4. Bring out the dramatic significance of the symbols used in Hedda Gabler.(2006)

5. How far would you agree that the tragedy of Hedda is that she has nothing serious to do but at the same time she desperately yearns, for happiness without every being able to find it? (2007)

6. "Hedda's restlessness and envy arise from her false standards of happiness as well as from her egotism and uselessness". What is your opinion?(2008)

7. Do you think that "Loveborg's despair arises from the fact that he wants to control the world but cannot control himself"? (2009)

8. Discuss some of the dramatic devices Ibsen has used to depict Hedda Gabler's predicament.(2010)

9. Who is responsible for the destruction of Hedda? Fate or Society?(2010-supp)

10. Ibsen's play exhibits a conflict in Hedda between the masculine and the feminine traits which ultimately brings about her destruction. How far do you agree? (2011)

11. Discuss the dramatic significance of symbols in the play HEDDA GABLER.(2011-supp)

12. "HEDDA GABBLER's characters anticipates the modern, emancipated woman who invariably places herself in opposition to the traditional maternal role. Elaborate.(2012)

13. HEDDA GABBLER's doomed enterprise takes on full meaning only if her milieu is completely conveyed in both, its human destiny and limitation. Elaborate.(2012-supp)

14. Can Hedda be regarded as the precursors of the 20th century emancipated woman? Give your arguments.(2013)

15. What picture of the social and moral norms of the society that surrounds Hedda Gabler, can be found in Ibsen's play?(2014)

16. Does Ibsen's play depict the failure of artistic impulse in a world dominated by socio economic concerns? How do you interpret the death of Lovcborg in "Hedda Gabler"?(2015)