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MODERN DRAMA: SAMUEL BECKETT : Waiting for godot:What is an absurd Drama?

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MODERN DRAMA: SAMUEL BECKETT : Waiting for godot Question : What is an absurd drama? Consider Waiting for Godot as a play belonging to the tradition of the theatre of the absurd. or, What are the Absurd elements of Waiting For Godot? or, What is the significance of the title of the play Waiting For Godot? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Answer: The Theatre of the Absurd presents anxiety, despair, and a sense of loss at the disappearance of solutions, illusions, and purposefulness. Facing up to this loss means that we face up to reality itself. Thus Absurd drama becomes a kind of modern mystical experience. ‘Absurd’ the term, comes not from a dictionary meaning, but from Martin Esslin’s books The Theater of the Absurd where he explains it as a ‘sense of metaphysical anguish at the absurdity of the human condition’. An absurd work is a frightening one. It has in itself no norms, no abso

Free notes: JM SYNGE: RIDERS TO THE SEA: In What ways is ‘Riders to the sea’ comparable to Greek tragedy?

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FREE NOTES: MODERN DRAMA: J. M. SYNGE : RIDERS TO THE SEA Question : In What ways is ‘Riders to the sea’ comparable to Greek tragedy? or, Discuss the significance of the role of Fate in ‘Riders to the Sea’. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer : Drama must excite, startle, thrill and shake us. Such effects cannot be produced by a play which is lacking in conflict. The conflict in a tragic play may be between human beings pulling in different directions, between a character and the environment in which he finds himself or the society of which he is a member. Riders to the Sea succeeds in representing human sufferings which raises pity and fear among us and makes us to decide that the play is a great one in its tragic appeal. The tragic theme of Riders to the Sea moves round with the deep pathos of a mother Maurya. The tragedy of the play is simple and straight- forward, but sublime and universal in

What is Phonetics?

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What is Phonetics? Definitions: Phonetics is the study of Speech Sounds, that is breaking the sounds into individual units or phenomes. Phonology is the study of how phonetic sounds are organized and used in natural languages. All Spoken Languages have their own phonetic sounds and phonology ............. Language can be best described as a progressive inclusion of the following aspects. Phonetics->Phonology->Morphology->Syntax->Semantics->Pragmatics. Phenomes, as we have said, are the individual units of sound that the Speaker produces. That is they are the base sounds that make up an uttered word. Phonetics is involved in analysing and studing the phenomes, and is without reguard to the actual language being spoken. What is presented here is mostly related to phonetic English and the symbolic representation for each English phenome. Please visit the Links below for details about Phonology. I also do not provide phonetic sounds here but please visit the listed sites fo

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