Ghosts: Henrik Ibsen
"l almost think we are all ghosts-all of us, Pastor Manders. It isn't just what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It is all kinds of dead ideas and all sorts of old and obsolete beliefs." Discuss the relevance of the term "ghosts" in the context of this statement.
2. Ibsen’s portrays the female characters in Ghosts?
3. How is Regina representative of mobility between the classes? Or "A poor girl has got io make the best of her life when she's young. Otherwise she'll be left high and dry before she knows where she is. And I've got the joy of life in me too, Mrs. Alving." How does the speaker plan to assert the "joy of life" in the future? ·
4. Regina and Engstrand relations how Henrik Ibsen is challenging conventional expectations?
5. Explain the significance of the title and the symbol of ghosts, sun in the play. Describe the theme of the play
6. How do the stage directions for Act 1 of Ghosts set the mood for the play? Highlight the components of realism should the audience or reader expect?
7. In your view, does Mrs. Alving mark the emergence of the "modem woman" in western theatre? Assess her characterisation especially in the light of her conduct with her husband 1n the past and her son at the end of the play.
8. Discuss the opening scene of Ghosts.
9. Comment on the ideas, the background of the play “Ghosts” by Henrik Ibsen.
10. Contrasting relationship between Paster Mander and Oswald?
11. Describe the moral message of Ibsen’s characterization?
12. Why does Mrs. Helene Alving chastise Pastor Manders for the way he has spoken to her in Act I of Ghosts?
13. Why in Act I of Ghosts does Pastor Manders feel he has the right to lecture Mrs. Helene Alving about her actions as a wife and mother?
14. How are Oswald Alving’s artist friends and the men he derides as “respectable” examples of the theme truth versus lies in Act I of Ghosts?
15. How does Oswald Alving contrast his artist friends with people Pastor Manders considers respectable in Act I of Ghosts?
16. Write a short note on Ibsen and drama of ideas?
17. Describe the moral message of the play “Ghosts”.
18. Attempt a character sketch of Oswald.
19. Attempt a character sketch of Mrs. Alving.
20. Attempt a character sketch of Regina.
21. In what sense is Pastor Manders a conformist?
22. Comment on the structure and technique of “Ghosts”.
23. What prompts Mrs. Alving to set up the orphanage as a memorial to her husband?
24. Explain the relationship between Oswald and Regina.
25. Portray the character sketch of Jacob Engstrand.?
26. Write a note on Ibsen’s play “Ghosts characterization”?
27. What exactly did Oswald do in Paris that makes him believe he earned syphilis?
28. Alving learns late about her …
Rhinoceros
1. Significance of title?
2. As an Allegory?
3. Rhinoceros as an Absurd drama?
4. Themes?
5. Why Bergner doesn’t want to change?
6. Background of the play?
7. Jean as beacon of hope?
8. Rhinoceros as an exisitanlaism?
9. How Bergner justifies his drinking?
10. Symbolism?
11. Characterization?
12. Comparison of characters Bergener and Jean
13. Critical analysis of the play?
14. Themes in Rhinoceros relates to Nazism or fascism?
The Good Women of Satzuan
1. What is the Epic Theatre? How The Good Women of Satzuan falls in category of Epic Theatre?
2. Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan reveals our helplessness before a cannibalistic capitalistic world. Explain.
3. How difficult it is to live a good life for Shui Ta?
4. How is the concept of the main character of the double at the play? Or Alter Ego of Shuita?
5. Significance of Title?
6. Critical analysis of Play?
7. Critically comment on the significance of the prologue and epilogue in Brecht's The Good Person Of Szechwan.
8. Discuss the good woman of setzuan as a modern play?
9. Characters of The Good Woman of Setzuan?
10. Discuss the theme of goodness in The Good Woman of Setzuan.
11. Comment on the theme of Patriarchal Capitalism in "The Good Woman of Setzuan"? or Gender Discrimination?
12. Discuss the theme of Love as a Weakness In 'The Good Woman of Setzuan?
13. What are the role of Gods in the play ' The Good Woman of Szechuan'?
14. What is the position of women in society in the play The good women of szechwan
Waiting for Godot
1. Waiting for Godot: An Absurd Play?
2. Role of Boy in Play?
3. Explain Waiting for Godot as an epitome of existentialism?
4. Comment on Indeterminate Time and Place in Beckett’s Play?
5. Waiting for Godot is a play in which "nothing happens, twice." Discuss. Or "In the play (Waiting for Godot) practically nothing happens. There is nothing done in it; no development is to be found; and there is no beginning and no end." Discus this view. Waiting for Godot as Unconventional play?
6. Who is Godot? What picture or him have you formed from your reading of Beckett's play? Or what is the dramatic importance of Godot in Beckett's play?
Or how would you interpret Godot? What purpose does he serve in Beckett's play?
7. Samuel Beckett sub-titled his play Waiting for Godot as a tragicomedy. How far is it appropriate to describe the play thus? Or Elucidate the description of Waiting for Godot as a tragicomedy?
8. Explain the significance of the title Waiting for Godot. Or Show that the main theme or the play Waiting for Godot is "waiting". Or "Waiting for Godot is not about Godot or even about waiting. It is waiting." Discuss.
9. Lucky’s speech?
10. Luck and pozzo vs Vladimir and Estragan?
11. Waiting for Godot as a tragic play?
12. Luck-Pozzo episode in your own words?
