Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता १२ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Share with your partner any instance of your personal experience where you, or somebody you know, had to make a difficult choice.

The description in this story has symbolic touches. What do you think the ‘window’, the ‘gathering dusk’, the ‘dusty cretonne and its odor’ symbolize?

Note how the narrative proceeds through the consciousness of Eveline.

In the last section of the story, notice these expressions

(i) A bell clanged upon her heart.

(ii) AlI the seas of the world tumbled upon her heart.

(iii) Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy.

(iv) She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal.

What are the emotions that these images evoke?

Do you think the author indicates his judgment of Eveline in the story?

What do you understand of Dr. Margolin’s past? How does it affect his present life?

What was Dr. Margolin’s attitude towards his profession?

What is Dr. Margolin’s view of the kind of life the American Jewish community leads?

What were the personality traits that endeared Dr. Margolin to others in his community?

Why do you think Dr. Margolin had the curious experience at the wedding hall?

Was the encounter with Raizel an illusion or was the carousing at the wedding hall illusory? Was Dr. Margolin the victim of the accident and was his astral body hovering in the world of twilight?

Discuss in small groups

Fiction often deals with human consciousness, rather than with the reality of existence.

Discuss in small groups

The ways in which survivors of holocausts deal with life.

Surrealism was an artistic and literary movement in France between the two World Wars. Its basic idea is that the automatic, illogical, and uncontrolled associations of the mind represent a higher reality than the world of practical life and ordinary literature. Do you think this story could be loosely classified as surrealistic? What elements in this story would support the idea?

Comment on the technique used by the author to convey the gruesome realities of the war and its devastating effect on the psyche of human beings through an intensely personal experience.

Who were the Senciminers?

Why did Dr. Margolin not particularly want his wife to accompany him to the wedding?

What is the Hippocratic oath?

What topic does the merry banter at the wedding invariably lead to?

Who was the woman that Dr. Margolin suddenly encountered at the wedding?