In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ?

Related Mcqs:

1. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?

   A. Nicoll
   B. Goddord
   C. Bradley
   D. Coleridge

2. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?

   A. The Taming of the Shrew
   B. As you Like it
   C. Two Gentlemen of Verona
   D. Titus Andronicus

3. The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?

   A. Jesus
   B. Samson
   C. Satan
   D. Adam

4. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

5. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social oppression of women.
   B. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
   C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

6. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?

   A. As a crazed fool
   B. As a profound philosophical genius
   C. As boyish and immature
   D. As a brilliant warrior

7. What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

   A. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
   B. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
   C. Women’s tragedies tend to be subordinated to those of men.
   D. All of the above

8. The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare ?

   A. “Henry IV, Part I”
   B. “Henry IV, Part II”
   C. “Titus Andronicus”
   D. All of the above

9. Shakespeare sometimes used the trochee, which in meter refers to which of the following? In Shakespeare’s plays, a troche is___________________?

   A. The same as an iamb with an unstressed and stressed syllable in a foot
   B. The opposite of an iamb with a stressed and then unstressed syllable in a foot
   C. Only one syllable for the length of a foot
   D. None of the above

10. According to Anthony DiMatteo’s “Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: ’Reason of State’ in ’Hamlet’”, how does Shakespeare tend to present political rulers in Hamlet?

    A. Shakespeare presents political rulers as flawless, perfect human beings.
    B. Shakespeare presents political rulers as often meeting ruinous and violent endings.
    C. Shakespeare only presents fictional political rulers and does not explore any political realities.
    D. Shakespeare considers all political rulers to be corrupt.