Unit 1: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

• Original Play Act 1

• Original Play Act 2

• The Search for the Self - Martin Esslin

• Existentialism

• Sisyphus - the Absurd Hero

• Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre

• Circular Nature of the Play

• Political Reading of the Play

• Deconstructive Reading of the Play

• Psychoanalytical Reading of the Play

• Postmodernist Reading of the Play

• Three Plays - Oedipus, Hamlet and Waiting for Godot

• Hindu Philosophy and Waiting for Godot

• Lucky's Speech: Explanation

• Dirty Jokes in the play

• Question Bank - Waiting for Godot

• Worksheet - Film Screening

• Check your progress - Online Test

• Watch these video resources to understand Existentialism

• Watch videos on:

  1. Waiting for Godot | Characters | Absurd Theatre

  2. Meaning of the Play | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett

  3. Hope - Christian Faith or Sartrean Bad Faith | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett

  4. The Sheep and the Goat | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett

Unit 2: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four - 1984

• Introduction - 1984

• Original Novel 

• Study Material - Cliff Notes

• Summary and Analysis

• Study Questions - 1984

• Symbols 

• Style

• Mind Control

• Character Study

• Ending of the Novel

• Critical Essays

  • Role of Language and the Act of Writing

  • Purpose of Newspeak

  • Role of the Author

  • Mutability of History

  • Politics and the English Language - George Orwell

  • Art, Truth & Politics- Harold Pinter

• Practice Project

Unit 3: Poems - W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939

• Original Poem

• Literary and Historical Context

• Speaker and Setting

• Analysis of the poem - September 1, 1939

• Analysis - 2 of the poem

• Analysis of the poem (Video Recording)

• Thematic Study (Video Recording)

• Queer Reading - The Hidden Message in 'September 1, 1939'

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

• Original Poem

• Analysis of the poem (video recording)

• Analysis of the poem - 1

• Analysis of the poem - 2

• Analysis of the poem - 3

Epitaph on a Tyrant

• Original Poem

• Analysis of the poem (video recording)

• Analysis of the poem

• Analysis of the poem

Questions (Auden's Poems)

Check your understanding of these poems - Online Test

Unit 4: Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World 

• About Kazuo Ishiguro, the author

• Original Novel

• Introduction: An Artist of the Floating World 

• Study Questions

• Thematic Study

• Key Themes - Video

• Form of the Novel - Video

• Symbols, Allegory

• Memory, Self-perception and Self-deception

• The Relevance of the Artist

• City, Nation and History

• Character Study - 1; Character Study - 2