Beckett's Waiting for Godot, PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

Beckett's Waiting for Godot, PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

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1. "Yet, If Beckett devalues language, he continues to use it and, bilingually, to show a mastery of it". How far do you agree with this view? Waiting for Godot.(2004)

2. Is Beckett's Waiting for Godot relevant for us today?(2005)

3. Can one identify with Beckett's characters in Waiting for Godot and if so why?(2006)

4. "In an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!" How far do you agree that these lines of the play Waiting for Godot reflect the intellectual climate of Beckett's time?(2007)

5. How does Beckett transform inaction into dramatic auction in Waiting for Godot?(2008)

6. What is the dramatic significance of the song in Act II of Waiting for Godot?(2009)

7. Is Waiting for Godot a meaningful play?(2010)

8. Waiting for Godot shows Beckett's ability to blend derision, humour and comedy with tragedy. His words are simultaneously tragic and comic. How far would you agree?(2010-supp)

9. How does Beckett prevent the audience from being bored by Waiting for Godot?(2011)

10. "I have used Christianity as mythology in the play WAITING FOR GODOT'. What dramatic purpose does Christian mythology serve in the play?(2011-supp)

11. WAITING FOR GODOT exposes the eternal loneliness, bafflement and ennui suffered by man. Comment.(2012)

12. WAITING FOR GODOT shows the individual as the product of linguistic forces, a 'tissue of textualities'. Comment.(2012-supp)

13. Bring out the significance of the title of WAITING FOR GODOT.(2013)

14. Waiting for Godot voices the infinite hope and despair of man about the future of humanity. Do you agree?(2014)

15. Discuss "Waiting for Godot" as representative of 20th century issues of anxiety and despair.(2015)