The man who wished to be perfect Class 11 Long Questions | WBCHSE Semester 2
WBCHSE Class 11 Semester 2 Drama ‘The man who wished to be perfect’ Long Questions Answers is available as per West Bengal new exam pattern. We have given here total 5 descriptive type questions. Each question carries 6 marks.
Board |
WBCHSE |
Class |
11 |
Semester |
2 |
Subject |
English |
Chapter |
The man who wished to be perfect |
Topic |
Long Questions / Descriptive Type Questions |
1.) What was the aim of the mendicant to do with the prince?
Answer. The mendicant was a worshipper of goddess kali and had a temple in the forest. He was from the sect of Hindus who believed in perfection from intercourse through the spirits of departed men. He had sacrificed six men already to goddess kali whose skulls were kept in the niches of the temple itself. He needed to sacrifice total seven mento receive worship of perfection from goddess kali. So, he made a plan and brought the elder prince from the king with tricks to sacrifice as the seventh victim to goddess kali. The skulls in the temple told the prince a possible way to save himself and for their release too. Thus, both the princes got to know about the evil plan of the mendicant behind taking the elder prince with him in the forest.
2.) How did the mendicant make his plan with the king and his prince?
Answer. The religious mendicant came to the king once with no issue. He knew before that the king was anxious about having a son. He took the chance of his weakness to have son as the bearer of his name and kingdom. He made a wicked plan that he would give a drug for the queen to give birth twin sons. He gave the drug with the condition that he would take one son of those twins and another would stay with the king. The condition seemed quite hard to the king but he agreed with the mendicant out of his worry. The queen swallowed the medicine and gave birth to twin sons in due time. They waited for long five years for the mendicant to come and take one son. But when he did not appear they thought he must be died. They put the princes under tutor for learning arts, riding and shooting with bow. When the princes turned sixteen years old, the mendicant appeared in the palace and demanded to fulfil the king’s promise. The king and queen had to go through tough struggle to be apart from their son. After long mourning and lamentation about who would go with the mendicant the elder prince went with him. Before leaving he told to his parents that the tree he planted in the courtyard would inform them about his life. When the tree would remain fresh he would be in good state, when it would fade some parts he would be ill and when the whole tree would fade he would be dead that they had to understand by seeing the tree.
3.) Who went with the mendicant and how was his life there?
Answer. Both of the princes wanted to go with the mendicant as their duty to fulfil their father’s promise. The elder prince asked the younger to stay at home while the younger insisted the elder to stay with parents. After prolonged deal of mourning, lamentation and the queen’s tears the elder son went with the mendicant. Before leaving the king’s palace he informed them to follow the tree he planted in the courtyard to know about his living state in the forest. He kissed and embraced his parents and brother before leaving for the forest. On the way the prince got a puppy and a hawk cub as his companions. When they reached in the depth of the forest the prince found a hut thatched with leaves. He had to live in the hut with the mendicant far from other people. His chief work there was to collect flowers from the forest for the mendicant’s devotions. He could go anywhere in the forest except the north as there was danger for him. He could eat whatever fruit or root from the forest he liked and drink from the brook. The prince used to pluck flowers at dawn for the mendicant after which he had to stay alone in the hut. He used to walk through the forest with his two companions the puppy and the hawk. He used to shoot deer with his bow and he pierced a stag by an arrow one day. The wounded stag ran towards the north and the prince reached there by following it.
4.) How did the elder prince fall in trouble within forest?
Answer. The mendicant forbade the prince to go towards north side as it was evil side for him. After plucking flowers for the mendicant in morning he had the whole day to spend with himself. He used to enjoy time by roaming with his companions in the forest. One day he pierced a stag by his arrow and the wounded stag ran towards the north. The prince ran by following it and reached at the north of the forest. He followed the stag inside a fine-looking house in the forest. But when he entered the house he did not find the stag and found a young woman sitting with dice table set instead. The prince got stuck there with the charming beauty of the lady. The lady asked him for a game of dice and the prince readily agreed by agreeing with her conditions. The prince lost the game to the lady three times one by one and lost his companions including himself to her. She put the prince in a hole and covered it with a plank at last. The lady was a rakshasi who disguised in human body. She got mouth-watering feeling to see tender flesh of the prince. But she kept him as the meal for the following day for having eaten on the day already. Thus, the elder prince fall in the capture of the rakshasa within the north of the forest.
5.) How did the prince get relieved from the evil plan of the mendicant?
Answer. The younger prince got to realise about dangerous state of his brother by noticing the tree in their courtyard. He did not wait for a moment and went towards the forest after taking permission from his parents to save his brother’s life. He also got another puppy and young hawk on his way in towards the forest who were apart from their companions. When he reached to the hut of the mendicant nobody was there and he felt helpless about what to do next. After the sunset when the mendicant returned he told the younger prince about the north side and the prince might face trouble in it. In the same way he pierced a stag with an arrow which took him to the house of the rakshasi in north. This prince won the dice game three times by playing with the rakshasa and got back his brother and his companions as the condition of the game. Then the rakshasa told him about the evil plan of the mendicant in the condition of not killing her. They got to know that the elder prince was brought with the aim of giving him as seventh sacrifice to goddess kali and achieve perfection. She also told them to find out the truth by themselves within the temple where the skulls of six humans kept. They reached to the temple and found the skulls in the niches of the temple. The skulls also informed them the same that the elder prince was going to be the seventh sacrifice in front of goddess kali. They told a way to save the prince and rescue them from being in skulls. They advised the elder prince to deny about bowing down when the mendicant would ask him before goddess kali. He should ask him to show him how to bow down once when he would do it that would be his chance to kill him. He should not delay and separate his head by one stroke with his sword. When the mendicant went to the temple along with the prince and asked him to bow down as devotion the prince followed the advice of the skulls and killed the mendicant. Thus, he saved himself and the other six men from the capture of the mendicant.
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