I cannot express how much these commentary and analysis videos that you make mean to me, I didn't really like Shakespeare at all before I watched your videos, you make it so fun to learn, and now I can finally understand his plays. Please don't ever stop making these wonderful videos, and thank you again!!!
@@5QShakespeare He is indeed! I'm binging on your videos, they're my new therapy sessions hahaaa, it used to be watching the walking dead and Marvel but now i guess time has changed :P
@@wingnut0707 I know your feeling. Great art, real art, presents us with the Full Human, with brutal honesty. Fosters compassion, for ourselves and others. Keep striving:) Read and watch widely.
Thank you so much for this, currently studying it through online school because of the pandemic. Enjoying your commentaries :) You speak with a lot of passion and it translates well!
Great analysis videos! I'm not here because of school or anything, just because it's my first time reading Shakespeare. Thanks to you, I'm enjoying it so much.
All these Macbeth videos are super useful. I got a very good grade in English all thanks to you! If I may, who is your favourite character in Macbeth and why?
Glad you find them useful:) Favourite character? hmm. Tough call. I'll have to cheese and say both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. I love her sleepwalking scene. So true to life. Our self-ignorance. You?
@@5QShakespeare Malcom because I believe he is the restorer of the Great chain of being and he is also noble and will be a great king, much like king Duncan
I also believe the witches play a huge part in this play as they are the ones who challenged Macbeth's ambition and of course created his dark side leading to the deaths of others
Some of your comments resonate and remind me of what Jordan Peterson talks about the shadow. I was a fan but recently I think his views are tainted politically.
Hi Steve. Interesting. I first encountered the Jungian Shadow through Joseph Campbell, who was very much a Jungian thinker. As far as I can tell, so is Peterson. Politics aside, I can't help understanding literature and life in archetypical terms. Every time I mention the Hero's Journey to students, for example, I see a light go on, a click of recognition -- the resonance you felt? I believe that's because Jung was generally right about the universal, evolutionary aspect of the collective unconscious. The Shadow idea is part of that. A universal. Peterson has tapped into that potential for resonance. He's doing now what Campbell was doing in the 70's and 80's. Pointing out the hidden obvious. Harry Potter has made billions because Rowling understood Jung, either through study or instinctively.
I think your over generalizing too much when you say macbeth is a weak passive cat in the adage. We already know he's a brave valiant general. Having qualms about murdering a friend for self advancement does not make one weak.
Yes. That's a good point. I raise the same question elsewhere. Physically, he's brave, psychologically weak. His insecurity makes his vulnerable to his wife's manipulations. His tragic flaw is ironic: he's not a psychopath.
@@5QShakespeare I would agree that he has a psychological weakness but I don't think his hesitancy to fulfill his ambition is that said weakness. I believe that his weakness is when he actually acts and gives in to that ambition. I believe his reluctance to act is actually his strength. Kinda the inverse of what you were saying.
I cannot express how much these commentary and analysis videos that you make mean to me, I didn't really like Shakespeare at all before I watched your videos, you make it so fun to learn, and now I can finally understand his plays. Please don't ever stop making these wonderful videos, and thank you again!!!
Thanks for the kind words, Wingnut:) Very glad you you enjoy Shakespeare now; he's so smart. It's important we learn from him. And fun, to boot!
@@5QShakespeare He is indeed! I'm binging on your videos, they're my new therapy sessions hahaaa, it used to be watching the walking dead and Marvel but now i guess time has changed :P
@@wingnut0707 I know your feeling. Great art, real art, presents us with the Full Human, with brutal honesty. Fosters compassion, for ourselves and others. Keep striving:) Read and watch widely.
@@5QShakespeare yessir!
Thank you so much for this, currently studying it through online school because of the pandemic. Enjoying your commentaries :) You speak with a lot of passion and it translates well!
Thank you very much. I'm glad you find it useful.
Great analysis videos! I'm not here because of school or anything, just because it's my first time reading Shakespeare. Thanks to you, I'm enjoying it so much.
Thanks:) Glad to hear you're giving Shakespeare a go. Great literature offers great rewards.
Thank you. This information is fantastic
Thank you. You're very welcome:)
Brilliant! Thoroughly enjoyed this- thank you!
Thank you. I'm glad you like it:)
Thanks for this! I started reading Macbeth lately and it's been difficult to glean all of the meaning from the lines.
You're very welcome. Glad you found it useful. Shakespeare is worth the effort:)
Wow, this was a great job!
I love a thorough and enthusiastic analysis. Thank you very much.
Your channel should have more followers and I subscribed.
Thanks!
thankyou so much! this really helped me and made me understand the details that are hidden in macbeth!
You're welcome. There is indeed a lot hidden in Shakespeare. Revealing it reveals a lot about ourselves:)
All these Macbeth videos are super useful. I got a very good grade in English all thanks to you! If I may, who is your favourite character in Macbeth and why?
Glad you find them useful:) Favourite character? hmm. Tough call. I'll have to cheese and say both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. I love her sleepwalking scene. So true to life. Our self-ignorance. You?
@@5QShakespeare Malcom because I believe he is the restorer of the Great chain of being and he is also noble and will be a great king, much like king Duncan
I also believe the witches play a huge part in this play as they are the ones who challenged Macbeth's ambition and of course created his dark side leading to the deaths of others
@@xxwolf_gamezxx3358 For sure. In terms of who I'd like to have a a friend, it'd be him.
@@xxwolf_gamezxx3358 True. I see the witches also as personifications of Macbeth's own inner life.
Some of your comments resonate and remind me of what Jordan Peterson talks about the shadow.
I was a fan but recently I think his views are tainted politically.
Hi Steve. Interesting. I first encountered the Jungian Shadow through Joseph Campbell, who was very much a Jungian thinker. As far as I can tell, so is Peterson. Politics aside, I can't help understanding literature and life in archetypical terms. Every time I mention the Hero's Journey to students, for example, I see a light go on, a click of recognition -- the resonance you felt? I believe that's because Jung was generally right about the universal, evolutionary aspect of the collective unconscious. The Shadow idea is part of that. A universal. Peterson has tapped into that potential for resonance. He's doing now what Campbell was doing in the 70's and 80's. Pointing out the hidden obvious. Harry Potter has made billions because Rowling understood Jung, either through study or instinctively.
I think your over generalizing too much when you say macbeth is a weak passive cat in the adage. We already know he's a brave valiant general. Having qualms about murdering a friend for self advancement does not make one weak.
Yes. That's a good point. I raise the same question elsewhere. Physically, he's brave, psychologically weak. His insecurity makes his vulnerable to his wife's manipulations. His tragic flaw is ironic: he's not a psychopath.
@@5QShakespeare I would agree that he has a psychological weakness but I don't think his hesitancy to fulfill his ambition is that said weakness. I believe that his weakness is when he actually acts and gives in to that ambition. I believe his reluctance to act is actually his strength. Kinda the inverse of what you were saying.
@@Laocoon283 Definitely. That's the Manhood question. He's a strong soldier, a weak murderer. His moral compass is too strong for the murdering game.
@@5QShakespeare Indeed.
Reminds me Raskolnikov. Tried to transcend his nature and ended up destroying himself.
@@Laocoon283 I agree. Well said. I think that's the essence of tragedy: lack of self-knowledge
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I'm going to dream about lady Macbeth and Macbeth starving innocent king Duncan 😭😭😭🥺
Shakespeare has a way of sticking with you, for sure:)