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Study Questions on Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett


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?