1. Explain the significance of the title 'Waiting for Godot'.
2. Show that the main theme of the play Waiting for Godot is waiting.
3.”Waiting
for Godot is not about Godot or even about waiting.It is waiting.” Discuss.
4.Discuss ‘Waiting
for Godot’ as a fable.
5.In what
respect does ‘Waiting for Godot’ resemble Existential literature?
6.How is
the problem of existence looked upon in ‘Waiting for Godot’?
7.Write a
note on the treatment of time in ‘Waiting for Godot’.
8. ‘Waiting
for Godot’ has variously been interpreted. Indicate some of the principal
approaches to the play.
9.What
different meanings is it possible to read into ‘Waiting for Godot’?
10.Do you
think that ‘Waiting for Godot’has any relious implications?
11. ‘Waiting
for Godot’ is a play in which “nothing happens twice.” Discuss.
12.Write a
note on the form,structure and theme of ‘Waiting for Godot’.
13.Discuss ‘Waiting
for Godot’ in the light of the traditional principles of dramaturgy.
14.Discuss ‘Waiting for Godot’ as an Absurd Play?
15.What is the significance of the silencing of Lucky by
Pozzo and the tramps?
16. To what
extent is it correct to interpret ‘Waiting for Godot’ as a clash between Society
and the Outsider?
17.Some of
Pozzo’s speeches go beyond what seems dramatically plausible in a decaying
boss-figure” Substantiate.
18.What
estimate have you formed of the two tramps? What do you think they symbolize?
19.Compare
and contrast the various human relationships in ‘Waiting for Godot’
20.Samuel
Beckett sub-titled his play ‘Waiting for Godot’ as tragicomedy. How far is it
appropriate to describe the play thus?
21.Write an
essay on the elements of comic and farcical element in ‘Waiting for Godot’.
22. How far
is it appropriate to call ‘Waiting for Godot’as a tragic play?
23.How
would you interpret Godot? What purpose does he serve in Beckett’s play?
24.What is
the dramatic significance of Godot in Beckett’s play?
25. ‘Waiting
for Godot’ possesses neither a conventional plot nor any female interest. What,then,
are the reasons for its immense popularity on the stage?
26.Do you
subscribe to the view that ‘Waiting for Godot’ ultimately tends to enhance
rather than lower one’s belief in human dignity?