CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The constable was knocked unconscious in the end. “Griffin was rather a lawless person.” Comment. Yes, we can say that Griffin was a lawless person. He didn’t follow the law and order of the country as he thought of having his revenge by setting out fire in his landlord’s property.

Detailed explanation-2: -When Jaffers came to the inn he found that he had to arrest a man without head. He tried to arrest Griffin but he started to take off his clothes one by one and became invisible. Finally Griffin knocked him unconscious and escaped easily.

Detailed explanation-3: -The constable, Mr Jaffers was quite surprised to find that he had to arrest a man without a head. But, Mr Jaffers never gave up so easily. To him, if a magistrate’s warrant ordered a person’s arrest, then that person had to be arrested, with or without his head.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mr. Jaffers, the constable of the village was surprised as he saw that he had to arrest a man without any head. But Jaffers still wanted to do his duty as he knew that the magistrate wanted him to arrest the person and it did not matter that he had a head or not.