GALILEO GALILIE PAST PAPERS BY BRECHT YEAR TILL YEAR 2019 SUPPLY

LIFE OF GALILEO GALILIE 

PAST PAPERS 

TILL 2019 SUPPLY 

DRAMA 2 PUNJAB UNI

PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

2019
Q. Brecht rejects the classical notions of tragic hero, inevitability of choice and the arousal of pity and fear as the tragic  emotions in The Life of Galileo. Comment

2019supply

Q. What makes Brecht's play Galileo Galilei a representative of the "complex seeing" aesthetics?

2018

Q. Critically examine Galileo Galilei in the light of Epic Theatre.

2018supply 

Q. Is Galileo a tragic protagonist?

1. ".... It is a play what contains very little element of caricature. 

This does not turn his Galileo into the self-portrait it is sometimes alleged to be ...".

 What is your opinion?(2004)

2. "Brechet's Galileo Galili is not only a hymn to reason but one that centres 

specifically on the need to be sceptical, to doubt". Discuss.(2005)

3. Do you think the play Galileo Galili presents a conflict between the authority

 and free scientific inquiry, both on the institutional level and within Galileo's own character?(2006)

4. How far do you think Brecht is successful in applying his theories about drama in

 Galileo Galili?(2007)

5. Is the play Galileo Galilie a tragedy?(2008)

6. "I betrayed my profession. A man who does what I did cannot be tolerated in the ranks

 of science." Make a critical assessment of Galileo's character in the light of this statement.(2009)

7. Do you think that Galileo Galili presents a conflict between the whole spirit of the free inquiry

 and the official ideology? Elaborate your answer with reference to the play.(2010)

8. What is Galileo's dilemma?(2010-supp)

9. Discuss the main features of the Epic Theatre in the light of Brechet's play Galileo Galili.(2011)

10. How far do you think that the issues and concerns raised in Brecht's GALILEO GALILIE

 relevant for us today?(2011-supp)

11. Life of Galileo by Brecht puts the heroic and the sublime next to the comic and 

the mundane. Elaborate.(2012)

12. Life of Galileo by Brecht is a major attempt to dramatize both the life of a great scientist

 and a crucial episode in the biography of science. Elaborate.(2012-supp)

13. Can Life of Galileo be read as anti-religions play?(2013)

14. The play by Brecht deliberately moves away from being a 'slice of life' by using distancing techniques. Discuss the effectiveness of these techniques.(2014)

15. Is Galileo a tragic protagonist?(2015)

16.

 Discuss the life of galileo as an anti romantic play    2016

17. Does galileo possess heroic dimensions    2017

18.  Critically examine the play life of galileo in the light of epic play 2018

Context

1. What do you want to explain? You are fully in line with the Holy Congregation's decree of 1616. You cannot be faulted.(2004)

2. They are making you plough water. They allow you pens and paper to keep you quiet. How can you possibly write when you know what's the purpose.(2005)

3. An apple from the tree of knowledge! He's wolfing it down. He is damned for ever, but he has got to wolf it down, the poor glutton.(2006)

4. What do you want to explain? You are fully in line with the Holy Congregation's decree of 1616. You cannot be faulted.(2007)

5. And Virginia will soon Rave to have a dowry: she's not bright. Then I like buying books about other things besides Physics, and I like a decent meal. Good' meals are when I get mot of my ideas.(2008)

6. The transcript is inside that globe. Should you think of taking it to Holland, you would of course have to bear the entire responsibility. In that case you would have bought it from someone who had access to the original in the Holy Office.(2009)

7. In my spare time, of which I have plenty, I have gone over my case and considered how it is going to be judged by that world of science of which I no longer count myself a member.(2010)

8. These selfish and domineering men, having greedily exploited the fruit of science, found that the cold eye of science had been turned on a primeval but contrived poverty that could clearly be swept away if they were swept away themselves.(2010-SUPP)

9. Why does he make the earth the centre of the universe? So that the See of St. Peter can be the centre of the earth! That's it what it is all about.(2011)

10. A human race with shambles around in a pearly haze of superstition and old saws, too ignorant to develop its own powers, will never be able to develop those powers of nature which you people are revealing to it.(2011-SUPP)

11. If you have knowledge to sell, you can ask only as much as it earns the purchaser.(2012)

12. I can visualize my parents sitting round the fire with my sister, eating their curded cheese ... They are badly off, but even their misfortunes imply a certain order. There are so many cycles. There is a regularity about the disasters that befall them ... They have been assured that God's eye is always on them ...(2012)

13. I like to think it all started with ships. From times immemorial ships had hugged the shores, but suddenly they abandoned the shores and sailed out the oceans.(2013)

14. If you have knowledge to sell, you can ask only as much as it earns the purchaser.(2014)

15. I can visualize my parents sitting around the fire with my sister, eating their curded cheese. They are badly off, but even their misfortunes imply a certain order. There are so many cycles. There is regularity about the disasters that befall them. They have been assured that God's eye is always on them ....(2015)