Riders to the Sea by JM Synge || Questions Answers for 4th Semester Class XII.

Riders to the Sea by JM Synge || Questions Answers for 4th Semester Class XII.

Riders to the Sea – থেকে 2 টি 5 নম্বরের প্রশ্ন দেওয়া থাকবে, যেকোনো 1 টি প্রশ্নের উত্তর দিতে হবে।

“Riders to the Sea” থেকে 4th Semester এর জন্য গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশ্ন ও উত্তর দেওয়া হলো। 4th Semester – এ আশানুরূপ সাফল্য পেতে এই প্রশ্নগুলি অবশ্যই তৈরি করো। আরও update পেতে নিয়মিত ভিজিট করো onlineexamgroup.com ।

Question: “The young priest is after bringing them.” – Who said this and to whom? What was brought? Why did the priest give it to the speaker?

Ans: In JM Synge’s play ‘Riders to the Sea’ Nora said this to her elder sister Cathleen when she returned home after meeting the young priest of the locality.

The young priest gave a bundle to Nora that she brought home. It contained a shirt and a plain stocking which were recovered off a body of a drowned man in Donegal.

The young priest gave the bundle of clothes to Nora. Because he wanted her and Cathleen to look at them and identify if they belonged to their missing brother Michael.

Question: “It will be wanting in this place.” – Who said and this to whom? What is it? Why did the person spoken to want it? Why will it be wanting in that place?

Answer: Maurya said the above-quoted line to her last surviving son Bartley.

Here, ‘it’ refers to the bit of new rope that was bought in Connemara.

Bartley wanted to make halter for his horse with the rope before going to the Galway fair.

Maurya feared that Michael’s dead body would wash up onto the shore any day. Then the rope would be needed to lower his coffin into his grave. That is why, Maurya said this.

Question: “Put these things away before she’ll come in.” – Who said this and to whom? Who is ‘she’? What are the ‘things’? What was the speaker doing with the things?

Answer: It was said by Cathleen to Nora in JM Synge’s one act play ‘Riders to the Sea’.

Here ‘She’ refers to Maurya, their mother.

The ‘things’ refer to a bundle of clothing. The clothes, a shirt and a stocking were suspected to belong to Michael, Maurya’s son who was lost at sea. It was given to Nora by the local priest.

Cathleen and Nora had been examining the clothing, trying to identify if it belonged to Michael. On hearing Maurya’s footsteps, Cathleen instructed Nora to hide the bundle before Maurya entered the room. She likely did this to protect her feelings or to avoid confirming her worst fears that her son Michael had really died. This action highlights the sisters’ attempt to protect their mother from the pain of losing another son.

Question: “It’s destroyed he’ll be, surely.” – Who said this about whom? Why will ‘he’ be destroyed? What was done afterwards?

Answer : The above-mentioned line from JM Synge’s play ‘Riders tothe Sea’ is spoken by Cathleen about her brother Bartley.

Bartley was supposed to go to the mainland to sell his horses at the Galway fair. Since he had been starving since morning, Cathleen was baking a cake for him to take along on his journey. However, after the emotional conversation between Bartley and Maurya about the dangers of going to sea, Cathleen forgot to give him the piece of cake. When she realised this, she and Nora became worried. They discussed that Bartley might become weak from hunger during his journey and might not survive until midnight without food.

Once Cathleen realized her mistake, she asked Maurya to go to the spring well and wait there for Bartley. She wanted Maurya to give Bartley the cake as he passed by.

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