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III. Answer any two of the following in a short essay of 200 words each :
24 Explain how the members of the Tiv tribe view Hamlet’s insanity.
25 How do the Santhals and the mining company owners perceive the land and its resources
in the village of Matiajore ?

26 Read the text from a novel by an Indian woman writer published in 1980. Would you say
Indian society at large was so hostile to women even in the end of the 20 century ?
What do you think of the word ‘fate’ that described the lot of woman ? Compare the

present day woman with that depicted in the text.
“It was so much easier for women in those days to accept, not to struggle. Because they
believed, they knew, there was nothing else for them. And they called that fate."
27 Explain; How does Kingston expose the unfair discrimination against women in traditional
Chinese society ?
(2 x 10 = 20 marks)

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