জাতীয় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের অনার্স ২য় বর্ষের introduction to drama short questions এবং প্রশ্ন উত্তর। Subject: Introduction to Drama, Code: 221101। শিক্ষার্থীরা, কোর্সটিকার আজকের এ সাজেশনে তোমরা Part-A, Part-B এবং Part-C এর পূর্ণাঙ্গ সাজেশন পাবে। যার মধ্যে Part-A এর সবগুলো Brief Question তোমরা উত্তরসহ সংগ্রহ করতে পারবে।
introduction to drama short questions
Part-B: Short Questions
King Oedipus
1. What is a prologue and its dramatic purpose in King Oedipus?
2. Describe the role of Chorus in King Oedipus.
3. Why did Oedipus call Tiresias to his royal palace?
4. Comment on the dramatic significance of the encounter between Oedipus and Creon.
5. What reason / logic does Oedipus give for his self-blinding?
6. What is the symbolic significance of Oedipus’ self-blinding?
7. Provide a brief account of the encounter between Oedipus and Teiresias.
8. What was the Oracle’s advice to get rid of the terrible plague?
9. Why did the people of Thebes respect Teiresias, the blind prophet?
10. How are both Oedipus and Jocasta guilty of pride?
11. In what situation did Oedipus kill his father?
12. What was the prophecy of Teiresias about Oedipus?
13. Write a short note on Delphic-Oracle.
As You Like It
1. Comment on the significance of the Forest of Arden.
2. How does Rosalind want to cure Orlando of his love?
3. Describe Duke Senior’s views on life in the Forest of Arden.
4. Comment on the title of the play As You Like It.
5. Describe the fight in which Charles was defeated by Orlando?
6. Why does Orlando write verses?
7. What are the seven stages in a man’s life?
8. Briefly describe the sub-plot in As You Like It.
9. “Love is merely a madness” – Comment in the context of A You Like It.
10. Write on the significance of disguise in As You Like It.
11. How does Orlando save Oliver’s life in the Forest of Arden?
Arms and the Man
1. Why is Shaw’s Arms and the Man called a drama of ideas?
2. What is a comedy?
3. Is Arms and the Man a problem play?
4. Was Bluntschli really a gentleman? How?
5. Describe the bedroom episode.
6. What is the dramatic significance of the flirting scene of Sergius and Louka?
7. Write a note on the photograph episode.
8. What is Raina’s view on killing the fugitives?
9. Who embodies life force in ‘Arms and the Man’?
10. What farcical elements do you find in Arms and the Man?
11. Why is Arms and the Man called an anti-romantic comedy?
12. Why does Bluntschli compare Sergius to Don Quixote?
13. How can Bluntschli be called an ‘Anti-hero’?
14. Narrate the coat-episode in ‘Arms and the Man’.
Riders to the Sea
1. What is a one-act play?
2. What characteristics of one-act play do you find in Riders to the Sea?
3. Is the sea in the “Riders to the Sea” the representative of fate?
4. Explain Maurya as a tragic character.
5. How do Nora and Cathleen serve the purpose of the chorus?
6. How do Nora and Cathleen become sure about the clothes of Michael?
7. What supernatural elements does J.M. Singe use in Riders to the Sea?
8. Show the universal appeal of ‘Riders to The Sea’.
Or,
How is Riders to the Sea a universal drama?
The Lion and the Jewel
1. How does Lakunle try to convince Sidi to marry him without bride-price?
2. Describe in brief ‘the dance of the lost traveller’.
3. What picture of African polygamous society do you find in The Lion and the Jewel?
4. What do you know about the life of the head wife?
Or,
What is the role of head wife?
5. How does Sadiku try to convince Sidi to marry Baroka?
6. On what grounds does Sidi reject the marriage proposal from Baroka?
Or,
Why does Sidi reject the marriage proposal of Baroka?
7. Describe the mime of the white surveyor.
Or,
How does Baroka foil the construction of railway through Ilujinle?
8. Describe Sadiku’s victory dance.
Or,
How does Sadiku celebrate Baroka’s impotence?
9. Describe The Lion and the Jewel as a comedy?
Or,
What conventions of comedy does The Lion and the Jewel satisfy?
10. Who or what is being satirized in Wole Soyinka’s “The Lion and the Jewel”?
11. Who is the protagonist in the play The Lion and the Jewel?
12. Who is the antagonist in The Lion and the Jewel?
13. Why, according to Sidi, does Baroka want to marry her?
14. Why does Sidi marry Baroka at the end of the play The Lion and the Jewel?
15. Analyze Sidi’s attitude towards bride-price. / Why does Sidi refuse to marry Lakunle without bride-price?
Explanations
King Oedipus
1. The killer of Laius,
Whoever he was, might think to turn his hand
Against me; thus serving Laius, I serve myself.
2. No mattr who he may be, he is forbidden
Shelteror intercourse with any man
In all this country over which I rule;
3. Chance rules our lives and the future is all unknown.
Best live as best we may from day to day.
Nor need this mother-marrying frighten you.
4. Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending,
And none can be called happy until that day when he carries
His happiness down to the grave in peace.
5. There is an unclean thing
Born and nursed on our soil;
polluting our soil, Which must be driven, not kept to destroy us.
As You Like It
1. Alas, what danger will it be to us,
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far?
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
2. Who doth ambition shun,
And loves to live i’ th’ sun,
Seeking the food he eats.
And pleas’d with what he gets.
3. And so from hour to hour, we ripe, and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot, and rot,
And there by hangs a tale.
4. “All the world’s a stages
And all men and women merely players.”
5. Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.
6. I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud; nor the soldier’s, which is ambitions; nor the lawyer’s which is politic; nor the lady’s which is nice.
Arms and the Man
1. This is a better weapon than the revolver: eh?
2. Soldering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
3. And how ridiculous! Oh war! War! The dream of patriots and heroes! A fraud, Bluntschli. A hollow sham, like love.
4. What a man! Is he a man?
5. Oh yes they are. There are only two sorts of soldiers: old ones and young ones.
Riders to the Sea
1. If it were was a hundred horses, or a thousand horses you had itself, what is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only.
2. They’re all gone now, and there is not anything more the sea can do to me.
3. He’s gone now, God spare us, and we’ll not see him again. He’s gone now, and when the Black night falling I’ll have not son left me in the world.
4. In the big world the old people do be leaving things after them for their sons and children, but in this place it is the young men do be leaving thinks behind for them that do be old.
5. I’ll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights after Samhain and I won’t care what way the sea is when the other women will be keening.
6. No man at all can be living for ever and we must be satisfied.
The Lion and the Jewel
1. It’s in my books.
Women have a smaller brain than men
That’s why they are called weaker sex.
2. A prophet has honour except
In his own home. Wise men have been called mad
Before me and after, many more shall be
So abused.
3. Ignorant girl, can you not understand?
To pay the price would be
To buy a heifer off the market stall.
You’d be my chattel, my mere property.
4. Baroka merely seeks to raise his manhood
Above my beauty
He seeks new fame
As the one man who has possessed
The jewel of Ilujinle!
5. I am no man Sadiku. My manhood
Ended near a week ago.
Or,
Why then must I, descendant of these lions
Forswear my wives at a youthful sixty-two
My veins of life run dry, my manhood gone!
6. Take warning, my masters We’ll scotch you in the end.
7. But you will agree, it is only fair
That we forget the bride-price totally
Since you no longer can be called a maid.
Short Notes
King Oedipus
1. Teiresias
2. Delphic Oracle
3. The Riddle of Sphinx
4. Jocasta
Arms and the Man
1. Catherine Petkoff
2. Chocolate-cream soldier
3. Raina
4. Anti-hero
Riders to the Sea
1. Islands
2. Bartley
3. The Galway Fair
4. Samhain
The Lion and the Jewel
1. The Bale
2. The Head Wife
3. Yoruba
4. Ogun
5. Sango
6. Bride-Price
7. Expressionism
8. Afrocentricity
9. African Drama
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