ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The “Prelude in the Theater” of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” presents a conversation between an audience member, a theater owner, and a playwright. The audience member wants to be entertained, and the theater owner wants money. What does the playwright want?
A
Entertainment
B
Money
C
Beauty
D
Fame
E
Awards
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Considered in this philosophical context, Faust’s many adventures all communicate the message that to find happiness man must learn to conquer the lower elements of his nature and live constructively within the framework imposed on him.

Detailed explanation-2: -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps best known for The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), the first novel of the Sturm und Drang movement, and for Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1832), a play about a man who sells his soul to the Devil that is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “Prelude” reminds us that dramatic art does not exist in a vacuum, but must always exist within some kind of larger context. Theaters, actors, and audience members all make up the whole of which the script is only part-so it is a part that must be responsive to the whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Johann Faust is the symbol of the relentless pursuit of knowledge; he was a wandering German conjurer, depicted in several different lights within different works of literature.

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