NSOU ENGLISH PG PAPER 3

NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY

ENGLISH 

1ST YEAR

PG

PAPER- 3

HAMLET

1. Comment critically on the significance of the play-within-the play in Hamlet.

2. Comment on the significance of the gravedigger scene in Hamlet.

3. HAMLET AS A REVENGE TRAGEDY

4. Is Hamlet an ‘artistic failure’? Give reasons for your answer.

5. Critically examine the question of Hamlet’s madness.

6. Critically examine the Nunnery Scene in Hamlet.

7. Critically examine Shakespeare’s handling of the supernatural in Hamlet.

8. The reasons for Hamlet’s delay in taking revenge are mainly internal. Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER

1. Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents disillusionment of Post-War generation. / Show how Osborne’s Look Back in Anger presents the mood and temper of Post-War England. / Give an estimate on the character of Jimmy Porter. / Is Look Back in Anger a revolutionary play? Justify your answer.

2. How does Osborne present marital relationships in Look Back in Anger?

3. Justify the title Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.

4. Write a note on the predominant symbols that Osborne uses in Look Back in Anger./ Comment on the significance of the bears quirrel symbol in Look Back in Anger.

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL 

1. Closely analyse the 'Interlude' in Murder in the Cathedral to indicate its importance in the play.

2. How significant is the Knights’ Apology in Murder in the Cathedral? How do the knights try to justify their actions? Dramatic function of the knights in the Murder in the Cathedral

3. Role of Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral

4. What part is played by the Tempters in Murder in the Cathedral? What was the role of the four tempters in the play Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot? How did they tempt the archbishop of Canterbury? What do the four tempters represent in Murder in the Cathedral?

THE TEMPEST

1. Analyse The Tempest as a romantic comedy with subtle differences from conventional expectations of the genre.

2. Art and Nature in The Tempest

3. Comment on Shakespeare’s use of the matter of romance in The Tempest.

4. Comment on the allegorical dimensions of The Tempest.

5. Comment on the love relationship between Ferdinand and Miranda in The Tempest. / What is the major theme of The Tempest? With what success has the theme been presented in terms of drama?

WAITING FOR GODOT

1. Discuss the importance of contrast and parallelism in "Waiting for Godot". Beckett's characters can be read both as contrasts and parallels. Discuss with close textual references to Waiting for Godot.

2. Critically analyse Samuel Beckett's handling of Memory and time in Waiting for Godot.

3. Bring out the significance of the Lucky-Pozzo relationship.

4. Show that the main theme of Waiting for Godot is ‘waiting’.

5. Comment on the theme of nothingness in Waiting for Godot./Since nothing happens in Waiting for Godot— no progress in time or space, can it be defined as drama ? Evaluate./ Waiting for Godot is a play without a plot. Do you agree ? Justify./ Waiting for Godot explores a static situation. Discuss./

6. Would you call Waiting For Godot absurd drama? Argue your answer.

7. Discuss Becket’s dark vision of existence. / Assess a comparative study on Vladimir and Estragon. /Do you agree that Waiting for Godot distils the theme of futility? Give reasons for your answer./ Waiting for Godot explores a static situation. Discuss.

8. What is the dramatic significance of the function of Godot in Waiting for Godot?

9. Write a note on the title of the play ‘waiting for Godot’./ The act of waiting is stressed in the title of the play, Waiting for Godot. Examine the element of waiting in the play.

SHORT QUESTIONS PG 3

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