NEB English Grade 11: The Looking Glass in Love and Life
Arjun EP
BEFORE YOU READ
(a) What do you think a looking glass is?
Looking glass is reflection of anyone.
(b) Do you dream while you are asleep? Do dreams have meaning in real life?
Yes, I dream while sleeping.
Many people say dreams have their meaning but I say dreams do not have any meaning.
(c) Do you believe in imagination or reality? Why?
I believe in reality because imagination charge any cost.
But for the future shake, we should imagine and plan.
WAYS WITH WORDS
(A) Match the words with their meanings.
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a |
exhausted |
i |
vision |
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b |
apparent |
ii |
wavy |
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c |
vista |
iii |
predetermined |
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d |
undulating |
iv |
prevent, hinder |
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e |
destined |
v |
suffocating, airless |
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f |
stuffy |
vi |
tired |
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g |
restrain |
vii |
clear |
Answer:
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a |
exhausted |
vi |
tired |
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b |
apparent |
vii |
clear |
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c |
vista |
i |
vision |
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d |
undulating |
ii |
wavy |
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e |
destined |
iii |
predetermined |
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f |
stuffy |
v |
suffocating, airless |
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g |
restrain |
iv |
prevent, hinder |
(B) Write the meaning and word class of the following words. Then use them in sentences of your own.
[implore, despair, beseech, eloquent, whirl, egoism, agony, delirious, delusive, compensate, mortgage, brood, prelude]
Implore = beg earnestly, request earnestly
Word class = transitive verb
The teachers implored to founder not to sell the school.
Despair = feeling of hopelessness (noun); lose hope
Word class = intransitive verb
Difficult question paper despairs the students.
Beseech = beg earnestly, request earnestly, pray
Word class = transitive verb
I beseech you to forgive me.
Eloquent = speaking forcefully; express emotion clearly
Word class = adjective
He is eloquent; he can be an actor.
Whirl = turn or spin rapidly; feel dizzy; spinning
Word class = verb, noun
The washing machine whirls the clothes.
Whirls of dust filled the air.
Egoism = one’s welfare; self-interest doctrine
Word class = noun
Her egoism separated her friends.
Agony = physical or mental pain; extreme emotion
Word class = noun
The injured soldier died in agony.
Delirious = excited; irritation through illness
Word class = adjective
After winning the game, he became delirious.
Delusive = misleading; false; deceptive
Word class = adjective
The delusive shopkeeper did not tell about the quality.
Compensate = make amend; pay for work or loss
Word class = verb
Labour got compensate for his injury.
Mortgage = loan secured by property; loan borrowed
Word class = noun
The mortgage loan is secured by the property.
Brood = worry, hatch eggs (verb); young of birds and animals (noun); kept for breeding (adjective)
Word class = verb, noun, adjective
Parents brood by thinking about the future of their children.
It is the new brood of the chicken.
Prelude = introductory event or music (noun); introduce with prelude (verb)
Word class = noun, verb
The preface of a book is also known as a prelude.
Apple preluded iPhone 12 in October 2020.
(C) In the story, you saw the words like ‘exhausted’ and ‘smiling’. They are used as adjectives. Adjectives ending in –ing describe what someone or something is like, whereas adjectives ending in –ed describe how someone feels. Compare:
Adjective
(D) Choose the correct word.
(a) Sarita was shocking/shocked to hear about earthquake.
(b) I think that rainy days in winter are depressing/depressed.
(c) The football match was very exciting/excited. I enjoyed it.
(d) The meals at Delight Café are satisfying/satisfied.
(e) I’ve got nothing to do. I’m boring/bored.
(f) Tanka is very good at telling funny stories. He can be very amusing/ amused.
(g) The teacher’s explanation was confusing/confused. Most of the students didn’t understand it.
(h) He is such a boring/bored person. He never wants to go out.
(i) I will be surprising/surprised if she does well in her test.
(j) Are you interesting/interested in politics?
Answer
(a) Sarita was shocked to hear about earthquake.
(b) I think that rainy days in winter are depressing.
(c) The football match was very exciting. I enjoyed it.
(d) The meals at Delight Café are satisfying.
(e) I’ve got nothing to do. I’m bored.
(f) Tanka is very good at telling funny stories. He can be very amusing.
(g) The teacher’s explanation was confusing. Most of the students didn’t understand it.
(h) He is such a boring person. He never wants to go out.
(i) I will be surprised if she does well in her test.
(j) Are you interested in politics?
(E) Write the correct form of the adjective in the blanks as in the example.
Example: Grammar rules frustrate me. They’re not logical. They are so frustrating.
(a) They frustrate me but they don’t bore me. I never get …… when I study grammar.
(b) If teachers want to interest the students, they must use …… materials.
(c) Certain stories interest almost everybody. For example, most students are …… in fairy tales.
(d) Certain things frighten me, but I never get …… when I speak English.
(e) If I get a good grade, that excites me. And if I get more than ninety percent, I am really ……
Answer
(a) They frustrate me but they don’t bore me. I never get bored when I study grammar.
(b) If teachers want to interest the students, they must use interesting materials.
(c) Certain stories interest almost everybody. For example, most students are interested in fairy tales.
(d) Certain things frighten me, but I never get frightened when I speak English.
(e) If I get a good grade, that excites me. And if I get more than ninety percent, I am really excited.
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COMPREHENSION
Answer these questions:
(a) Who was Nellie? What did she use to dream of?
Nellie was the daughter of a landowner and general.
She was a young and pretty girl.
She used to dream of being married.
(b) What was she doing with the looking glass?
She was gazing into the looking glass with exhaustion.
She used to look in the mirror with half-closed eyes.
(c) Why did she go to the doctor on one winter night?
She went to the doctor one night because her husband was ill.
(d) What was Stepan Lukitch doing when she reached his bedroom?
Stepan Lukitch was lying on his bed when Nellie reached his bedroom.
(e) Why was the doctor not ready to go to see her husband?
The doctor was not ready to go to see her husband because he had been away for the last three days.
The doctor was seeing typhus patients and was exhausted.
(f) Why did Stepan Lukitch suggest Nellie to go to the Zemstvo doctor?
Stepan Lukitch suggested Nellie to go to the Zemstvo doctor because he was in a fever and his head was in a whirl.
(g) Nellie said, “Come, perform that heroic deed! Have pity on us!” What was that pity to be done?
The doctor did not like to Nellie’s husband but the doctor had to treat him.
Treatment was to be done.
(h) When Nellie said, “I must have fallen asleep.” What does it mean?
Nellie stopped dreaming and was ready for facing the realities of life.
(i) What is the main theme of the story?
In The Looking-Glass by Anton Chekhov there is the theme of devotion, loneliness, escape, fear, love, dedication, hope, defeat and independence.
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CRITICAL THINKING
(a) “The looking glass (mirror)” is used as a symbol in the story. What does it symbolise?
The Looking Glass symbolizes Nellie’s imagination and her desire to be married.
In the story, the looking glass or mirror remains to be important because it reveals the future.
The major part of the story revolves around the dream of Natalie.
Her dream goes on to scare because of her inability.
The looking-glass offers Nellie an outlet to escape from the life that she is living.
She is a single and unattached woman who desires to find a man who will love her.
In fact, she is seeking happiness through marriage.
Using her dream, the story writer exhibits her internal conflict within herself and her challenges to relate her problems with others.
Chekhov exposes Nellie’s inner feelings, her fears and the manner she continues to feel helpless.
The use of looking glass makes the story successful as it brings together its goals and objectives to readers.
(b) Chekhov employs the magic trick in the story, using a very elegant transition from reality to imagination to reality sequence. Discuss its relevance to life of young people.
In the story, the writer Chekhov has used the magic trick.
He used a very elegant transition from reality to imagination to reality in sequence.
It moves systematically explanations from the beginning of the story to the dream of the main character described until the character wakes up.
The transition from reality to imagination occurs in the introductory part of the story.
The story begins with a young woman named Nellie who always wants to get married, staring into the mirror. She drifts into her imagination and encounters a terrifying glimpse of the future.
She attempts to save her husband from typhus.
The action becomes more specific; the readers can safely assume they have been transitioned completely into the realm of the imagination.
This is a wonderful trick of the writer Chekhov.
Most young people dream of their life as in the fairy tales; it is full of happiness and perfection.
They compare themselves to comfortable characters of the fanciful movies.
The character in the story begins with naive hopes and high expectations.
Nellie imagines romance and marriage through the mirror.
At first, she sees love and the caring husband in her dreams; then she sees the transitory nature of this happiness.
She believes that romance is the gateway to her happiness in life but it is her illusion only.
In real life, there are painful realities.
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