Nobel Lecture questions and answers

Nobel Lecture broad / long / descriptive important questions and answers for Class - 11th ( WBCHSE and other board )

Q. “… I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion.” – Discuss.

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“And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today.” – Explain.

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What does Mother propose in her Nobel Lecture to combat the evil of abortion?

Ans :- In her Nobel Lecture, Mother Teresa strongly opposes the evil of abortion. She takes this as the worst form of crime. This results in the killing of a prospective life by the mother herself. She regards this as the greatest destroyer of peace. Mother Teresa thinks abortion as nothing less than homicide. It is just like war against nature. Mother strongly holds that abortion is here a grave threat to peace and love. A baby being slain by its own mother is the worst form of crime. This must not be allowed at any cost.

             Mother offers her service in the fight against abortion. She promises shelters and builds homes for those unwanted babies. Her counsel to the virgin mothers is to shun their shame and come forward to enrich the human generation. She assures them of all help and homes for their unwanted children through adoption and other possible means. She advices proper family planning by self-control to have healthy and honourable families.

Q. Relate the incident, told by Mother, in her Nobel speech to illustrate the joy of sharing among the poor.

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“I had the most extraordinary experience with a Hindu family …” – What is the most extraordinary experience of the Mother?

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What message did Mother Teresa want to convey by the incident of sharing the rice between a Hindu family and a Muslim family?

Ans :- Mother Teresa had an experience of a poverty-stricken Hindu family. Once Mother went there with some rice to give the family of eight hungry children. Their eyes were brightened at the sight of the rice.

     The mother of the children did something strange. She took the rice from Mother’s hand. Then she divided the same into two parts and went out. She gave one portion of the rice to another family – a Muslim family. That family was equally in distress. Mother felt confused at her conduct. She was sorry that she had not brought sufficient rice for two starving families.

             But she learnt a useful lesson of joy and love. That was the lesson of joy in sharing even among the most wretched poor. It was the spirit of love that enabled those poor people to share rice with joy in their hearts.

Q. Bring out Mother’s observation on drug-addiction particularly in the West.

Ans :- In her Nobel Lecture, Mother Teresa remarks on drug-addictions. This is a pressing social problem in advanced countries. She takes this as a grave problem and seeks to find out the cause behind this addiction to drugs. According to Mother, isolation from their parents’ can hardly make time to personally attend to their children. They remain too busy to give any time to them. These children are, no doubt, provided with all material needs and comfort. But they miss what they need most, their presents love and affection. The healing touch of love is dear to them, but they do not get the same. So, drugs draw them easily. The situation is unfortunate. It affects peace in individual life and society. The remedy lies in better family understanding and relationship.

Q. “The poor are very wonderful people.” How does Mother Teresa establish this idea in her Nobel Lecture.

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“And she died with a smile on her face.” – What is the incident indicated herein?

Ans :- Mother Teresa thinks that the poor people are very wonderful people. She tries to establish this idea by telling her own experiences with them.

           One evening her sisters picked up four people from the street. One of them was in a most terrible condition. She asked them to take care of the other three and decided to take care of the fourth who herself was in a critical condition. She did every possible thing. At last with a beautiful smile on her face she took hold of her hand and said “Thank you” and died.

             The mother was deeply moved by the way she surrendered herself to death without any complaint of her hunger, or pain, or suffering. She died with a smile on her face, like the man whom Mother and her workers picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms and he was brought to the home. The man made a wonderful statement that he had lived like an animal in the street, but he was going to die like an angel, loved and cared for. It was so wonderful to see the greatness of the man who could speak like that, who could speak like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything.

               Thus, according to Mother, both the dying woman and the man showed greatness before embracing death. These poor men are really wonderful

Q. Comment on Mother Teresa’s Nobel Lecture.

Ans :- Mother Teresa’s Nobel Lecture is a grand specimen of deliberation by a great personality who dedicated all to the cause of man. Her Nobel lecture contains her message which is of love and service to humanity. The lecture contains her healing touches on diverse problems of the vast human society. Extreme poverty, unhealthy habits, malnutrition, distressing loneliness and the sins of abortions or drug-addictions are haunting life and peace everywhere. The lecture is intended for curing human society of such burning problems. The restoration of peace and love is the main concern of the world. Her language is simple appealing and convincing, her tone sincere and inspiring.