Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue

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    There’s a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never be uttered in a theater. A play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody, severed head. A play filled with riddles, prophecies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder. But is it really all that good? Brendan Pelsue explains why you should read (or revisit) "Macbeth."
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  • @vincent-of-the-bog
    @vincent-of-the-bog 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6433

    Animation's bloody gorgeous. And the Tragedy of Macbeth is bloody, gorgeous.

    • @sansamman4619
      @sansamman4619 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Georgia S. seriously mate! your are so bloody right.

    • @deanjohnson6120
      @deanjohnson6120 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Georgia S. Just because you say “gorgeous” does not make you seem literate. Nor does it make you seem intelligent.

    • @FightingTorque411
      @FightingTorque411 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Dean Johnson does Georgia need to "seem" literate and intelligent? I don't see how you deduce that using that single word makes one a try-hard.

    • @PutYoRhymeOn
      @PutYoRhymeOn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Dean Johnson uhhh you're taking the wrong memo from his comment, mate.

    • @gambithd59
      @gambithd59 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nice use of antanaclasis

  • @vraos4240
    @vraos4240 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4118

    The voice of this narrator is gold

    • @apolloholmes208
      @apolloholmes208 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes...his voice (Mr. Adrian Dannatt) and Mr. Jack Cuthmore- Scott is the best for me...

    • @karenstrong6734
      @karenstrong6734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Apollo Holmes I love to see this narrator narrate a book.

    • @jordanoswald8648
      @jordanoswald8648 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      At first I thought it was Terrence Stamp doing the narration

    • @elwn.
      @elwn. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vraos you mean divin

    • @vjekokolic9057
      @vjekokolic9057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The narrator has an amasing voice, he should be an audiobook reader

  • @nivob3404
    @nivob3404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5972

    "what is done is done" -------> years later adaptation: "IT IS WHAT IT ISSSSSSSSSS"

    • @bryan6040
      @bryan6040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      Damn; what if a few centuries later this becomes the official Shakespeare quote and WAP becomes the new Macbeth oh lord

    • @bluemoonyoru8069
      @bluemoonyoru8069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      PERIODT SIS💅

    • @Damonistique
      @Damonistique 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      or Tenet :D

    • @DoomerDarling
      @DoomerDarling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Or another variation: “it be like that sometimes”

    • @EasyEnglishWithBharti
      @EasyEnglishWithBharti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      And now it is more like "You gotta do what you gotta do."

  • @unclebayek8923
    @unclebayek8923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2615

    3:29 "Shakespeare provides viewers with some of the most memorable passages in English literature: "
    *_WHAT, YOU EGG!_*

  • @kentondickerson
    @kentondickerson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2081

    The great mistake that many schools make is making students read these plays before they see them on stage or in a movie.

    • @leticiasantiago7159
      @leticiasantiago7159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +257

      Yep, I've read it once but I honestly don't think I even got the message right. I mean, I understood it, but I didn't feel it. And I'm a Literature student, so... I agree with you. The book is fine but plays were meant to be PLAYED, not READ.

    • @hunterbarwary010
      @hunterbarwary010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Agreed

    • @JacobMinger
      @JacobMinger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I only survived Hamlet in school because I had Kenneth Branagh’s 4 hour film production that I watched as a study aide. I recently rediscovered a love of Shakespeare thanks to a Manga adaptation of the full text as well as Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood

    • @notazula
      @notazula 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      you said it. if not for the plays and movies made of the things they've made us read, i don't think i would have ever fully understood the story. it makes it more fun and educational too

    • @AfroLion01
      @AfroLion01 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I unfortunately did Macbeth in 2020 and the English teacher we did it with insisted there was no movie but we were 'voice-acting' it out in class before COVID struck and I loved it. Then she left and we did Things Fall Apart(a great book by Chinua Achebe) with the new teacher but yeah we weren't assessed on Macbeth. I felt so jealous of the Grade 11s who got to do it last year in my school.

  • @omaralmubayd
    @omaralmubayd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13081

    I would love to see the whole play in this style of drawing ...that would be divine.

    • @QUARTERMASTEREMI6
      @QUARTERMASTEREMI6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +214

      You know what, you're right; that would most [agreeably] be an absolutely brilliant request.

    • @omaralmubayd
      @omaralmubayd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      QuartermasterEM16 Thank you

    • @alfredthepatientxcvi
      @alfredthepatientxcvi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Omar Almubayd there are some recent movies about it like around 2015. Check them

    • @omaralmubayd
      @omaralmubayd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Alfred Acar I will, thank you.

    • @emmytweetie2177
      @emmytweetie2177 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Omar Almubayd
      [insert posh laughter]

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18982

    Someone give the animator a raise.

    • @uniqueusername_
      @uniqueusername_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +329

      a BIG one

    • @paxonite-7bd5
      @paxonite-7bd5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +275

      A really BIG one!

    • @glasshoes9337
      @glasshoes9337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      The Science Biome does anybody know who the animators are?

    • @sunspot5080
      @sunspot5080 6 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      a small raise of a million dollars

    • @jacrooki9560
      @jacrooki9560 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      GOD DAMN IT WAS GORGEOUS

  • @Redpuff101
    @Redpuff101 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8603

    You know what else is a tragedy ? My grade after the Macbeth essay.

    • @mike2x437
      @mike2x437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      U right

    • @amaaneeismail5256
      @amaaneeismail5256 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      dude, same here lol

    • @NynZhan
      @NynZhan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @Espada kurosaki I am, and I did it

    • @user-dp9yn7zf4l
      @user-dp9yn7zf4l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      easy C- for me

    • @micahtshibangu7402
      @micahtshibangu7402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      AsianNinjaNation Bridge to terabithia was tragic essay. Maybe only canberrans read it

  • @poojasbehaviour8530
    @poojasbehaviour8530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +650

    honestly, everyone's saying "what, you egg" but my favourite quote is actually the witches calling some lady a "rump-fed ronyon", it's just 👌

    • @joshuamark9316
      @joshuamark9316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Mine is probably that one time when lady macbeth uses an analogy of smashing a baby against a wall to get her point across

    • @notverypog
      @notverypog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@joshuamark9316 lmao she got no chill

    • @z.siblings9055
      @z.siblings9055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AHAHAHHA NO WAIT WHAT I HAVE TO READ THAT

    • @poojasbehaviour8530
      @poojasbehaviour8530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@joshuamark9316 oh dude that was brutal

    • @ohivonmenisunuoya
      @ohivonmenisunuoya 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joshuamark9316 lol 😆 I need to read this book again

  • @SRoy-rk3tj
    @SRoy-rk3tj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +609

    My favorite quote from the play
    “What, you Egg”!
    [Stabs Him]

    • @blueace1000
      @blueace1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      "He has killed me, mother"

    • @z.siblings9055
      @z.siblings9055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      THIS IS THE LITERAL FUNNIEST VERSION OF "WHAT YOU EGG" I HAVE SEEN IN THIS ENTIRE COMMENT SECTION

  • @mahmoodabdulrazzaq5033
    @mahmoodabdulrazzaq5033 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2458

    This is my favorite animation and voice-over pair for any TED Ed video so far. Absolutely surreal.

    • @RICE-lq1zc
      @RICE-lq1zc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      900 likes, no comment?
      Here, have one

    • @Kaseus-lq7cj
      @Kaseus-lq7cj 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      A third!

    • @mincao8003
      @mincao8003 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You pull out words out of my thoughts! I was thinking exactly the same thing but had not gotten a chance to articulate it and then saw your comments!

    • @pops1878
      @pops1878 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah

  • @rea8585
    @rea8585 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3649

    The more I read the old classics, the more I am realizing we might have progressed in so many areas, but the way we think and handle our emotions and instincts has stayed pretty much the same. We have similar problems as people living centuries before us and are asking ourselves the same existential questions that exist since a loooong time ago.
    Power changes people in different ways and if the person doesn't have a clear vision of what they want to achieve, it is easy to miss the right turn and just keep going deeper and deeper into darkness. :)

    • @idib1739
      @idib1739 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      indeed, No matter how much we learn throughout history, human nature is till human nature. I'm not optimistic about how it'll all en though.

    • @guesswhoami4723
      @guesswhoami4723 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Quick Fix loved what you said and I myself so much agree...

    • @scrap8660
      @scrap8660 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Quick Fix naaaaah now everyone’s obsessed with memes

    • @sagarsaxena6318
      @sagarsaxena6318 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes! That's one major reason a lot of these books are relevant even today.I would go so far as to say that any form of well-made art that evokes or touches upon such issues becomes timeless.So,Macbeth will stay relevant as long as humanity exists.

    • @pooshpoosh9232
      @pooshpoosh9232 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quick Fix back then they were said because they couldn't eat high class sugar. Now we get said because we can't have a Ferrari , same emotions with different aspects

  • @sm6756
    @sm6756 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1671

    Lady Macbeth
    “Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”
    “Will these hands never been clean?”
    Outstanding story!

    • @geronimohayauxdutilly2136
      @geronimohayauxdutilly2136 6 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Sarah Mortada don't forget
      " All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
      Tbh I like Lady Macbeth more than Macbeth as a character

    • @sm6756
      @sm6756 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly
      Ah , I liked Macbeth as well.
      All the characters felt so real and deep

    • @Tombee2
      @Tombee2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly honestly she's the coolest character.

    • @franziska9260
      @franziska9260 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Geronimo Hayaux du Tilly Agreed, she is in my opinion the most memorable character from the play

    • @kayhaych05
      @kayhaych05 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Good god she is one of the most interesting characters Shakespeare ever created

  • @dantelu7652
    @dantelu7652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    We need an audiobook voicing the whole play with this magical sound 2:53
    Can't stop re-listening to him...

  • @ruchipeiris1663
    @ruchipeiris1663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    Sees this video
    Thumbnail: why should you read Macbeth?
    ME: cuz it's in my syllabus !

    • @adrianasaba7344
      @adrianasaba7344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      literally

    • @chietrinidad1753
      @chietrinidad1753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

    • @youtubeuser4028
      @youtubeuser4028 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And the tragedy for me is that I am an English literature student and don't like to read 😭 because I never got time in school years to read for fun so now I don't like it 😭 that's how Indian education system works

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Out, damned syllabi!"

  • @supercanadian0640
    @supercanadian0640 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4211

    Macbeth is what stopped me from overthrowing the government

    • @ShauryamAkhoury
      @ShauryamAkhoury 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      The Ace Of Spades I see you in every comment section

    • @ifurkend
      @ifurkend 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      We need Sibyl System, but without that bloody Dominator.

    • @golammorshed9082
      @golammorshed9082 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The Ace Of Spades Macbeth is what got me in politics. I want bloodlust

    • @EmilReiko
      @EmilReiko 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      In other words, Im only here for the violence.

    • @Crispr00
      @Crispr00 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Ace Of Spades nooo

  • @wadeslovick2815
    @wadeslovick2815 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2981

    What, you egg?
    *He stabs him*

    • @tidebleach9667
      @tidebleach9667 6 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      Sentic Memes best line in the entire play

    • @derekvigil9788
      @derekvigil9788 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Sentic Memes *I’m dying*

    • @tracewyrm
      @tracewyrm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Y O U. E G G

    • @annag6400
      @annag6400 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Superior Vigil So was he

    • @weiyin8046
      @weiyin8046 6 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      my personal favourite shakespeare line is romeo and juliet “You are a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed?”

  • @idib1739
    @idib1739 6 ปีที่แล้ว +606

    The animation in here is next level. So well made, and probably not cheap to produce though. Keep up the good work guys.

  • @SydTom2021
    @SydTom2021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Ted-Ed: Why you should read Macbeth
    Year 9 English: Allow me to introduce myself

    • @LorddirtGaming
      @LorddirtGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Year 10 English for me right at this moment.

    • @alizaubaid2784
      @alizaubaid2784 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      year 8 for me 😭

    • @Robin-eq7uz
      @Robin-eq7uz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Year 12 for me, but I'm German so as a secondary language, I think Macbeth counts as being more advanced material.

    • @Violetgalaxyshimmer33
      @Violetgalaxyshimmer33 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LorddirtGaming same

    • @cheeseboi8769
      @cheeseboi8769 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      me learning it in year 6 0

  • @taun96
    @taun96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    There's also an Indian version of Macbeth called Maqbool. It's part of the Shakespeare Trilogy by this famous Indian director, Vikas Bharadwaj. He adapted Macbeth into Maqbool, Othello into Omkara, and Hamlet into Haider.
    Each story borrows themes from the original story, but places them in scenarios similar to Indians.

    • @inkyboy88
      @inkyboy88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sounds cool. I’ll look into them.

    • @lou626
      @lou626 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Kinda ruined it tbh

  • @troy6164
    @troy6164 6 ปีที่แล้ว +730

    the animation was gorgeous

  • @Vulkrein
    @Vulkrein 6 ปีที่แล้ว +589

    "What? You Egg!"
    (Stabs him)
    -Macbeth

    • @Vulkrein
      @Vulkrein 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The reference was macbeth but she did not say this line, i apologize

    • @Lulu-fq8xw
      @Lulu-fq8xw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Vulkrein Macbeth never said this line himself
      The first murderer did

  • @ananya.a.
    @ananya.a. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1108

    My dearest, Angelica. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day. I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish Tragedy without my having to name the play-

    • @darvog1983
      @darvog1983 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I was looking for this

    • @joshuaterania9071
      @joshuaterania9071 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Hamilfans gotta unite 😂

    • @sandrarivera1262
      @sandrarivera1262 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      On The Wall Ah, I knew I would find Hamilton fans here😎

    • @kiwireeds5883
      @kiwireeds5883 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      OMYWORD! THIS JUST SHED A NEW LIGHT!

    • @romysuter9642
      @romysuter9642 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      when we started macbeth at school all i could think of was this quote lmao

  • @marvelfangirl3328
    @marvelfangirl3328 6 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    *"By the pricking of my thumbs,"*
    *"Something wicked this way comes."*
    - William Shakespeare, _Macbeth_

  • @zainab4132
    @zainab4132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    My God - this was insanely beautiful. The voice, the content, the animations. Thanks so much for this! I wish I could give the video a million thumbs up.

  • @Merrypaws
    @Merrypaws 6 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    One of TED-Ed's finest videos to date. Gorgeous animation, riveting voice over and excellent pacing, making for not only educational, but truly dramatic telling, which makes learning a captivating experience.

  • @juniormachado4456
    @juniormachado4456 6 ปีที่แล้ว +442

    Shakespeare leaves a class looking like the end of Macbeth

    • @gregg6077
      @gregg6077 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Junior Machado too true

    • @firewall5189
      @firewall5189 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      if this is an ERB reference that i wasnt expecting, im eating my shoe

    • @juniormachado4456
      @juniormachado4456 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The Overlord | Yes it is. Shakespeare vs Dr. Seuss right? :D

    • @woden__
      @woden__ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was waiting for this

  • @a.a2697
    @a.a2697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +718

    You wouldn't be applauding it so much if you had to learn this play in your exam

    • @firewall5189
      @firewall5189 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Studied it for 4 weeks straight with 2 essays on it, still applauding it lol

    • @tubthungusbychumbungus
      @tubthungusbychumbungus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The Overlord I have to study it for 2 years. Its getting pretty tedious now...

    • @firewall5189
      @firewall5189 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sorry to hear Karina, paying my respects

    • @tubthungusbychumbungus
      @tubthungusbychumbungus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Overlord Thank you... I get through it

    • @dakshinibhattacharya996
      @dakshinibhattacharya996 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Read it for an entire year, doing multiple essays on a number of different aspects and characters in the play... and still could not get enough of it :) Can't decide which one I love more though, this one or Julius Caesar!

  • @LEGENDSREIMAGINED17
    @LEGENDSREIMAGINED17 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Macbeth is one of the masterpieces of Shakespeare. It's universality is marvellous as it is nearly the story of every Dictator ever ruled.

  • @aliserkansar335
    @aliserkansar335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    This play made my heart pulped faster than ever before happened. Lady and Lord Macbeth's ambigiuties are quite philosophical. You should think that why a man commits a horrible betrayal even if he know that he would be regret. Lord Macbeth is the mirror of many politicians throughout the history.

  • @MinecraftSinss
    @MinecraftSinss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    Macbeth was forced upon me in school, I can't avoid it.

    • @AWKWAKAE
      @AWKWAKAE 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      MinecraftSinss yessss like I had no choice if I wanted to read it or not

    • @mattparker7932
      @mattparker7932 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was actually drawn to it as a youth after seeing a more historical take on Macbeth featured in the animated series Gargoyles. Good stuff.

    • @youssefabdelrahim972
      @youssefabdelrahim972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      it's forced upon me right now , but i am glad with it

    • @theevokeruser2356
      @theevokeruser2356 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MinecraftSinss school pretty much forced us to read it. However Romeo and Juliet was the one we looked at constantly. Year after year it was always Romeo and Juliet and I got sick of it.

    • @NM-cl6um
      @NM-cl6um 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have just complete reading it

  • @d_wang9836
    @d_wang9836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +831

    To read or not to read. That isth thy question

    • @matthewblairrains6032
      @matthewblairrains6032 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      [Yoshikage_Kira] aka Handy Man, Duwang Man, *chew* that's the wrong quote your using Hamlet instead

    • @d_wang9836
      @d_wang9836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Matthew Blairrains I know

    • @mirwaizuzair6386
      @mirwaizuzair6386 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      To read the manga or to wait 1000 years for part 5?

    • @esomoi7197
      @esomoi7197 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      [Yoshikage_Kira] aka Handy Man, Duwang Man, *chew* you mean the question. Thy means your.

    • @d_wang9836
      @d_wang9836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kingjojo I also know that
      I thought someone would correct me sooner

  • @siddjoshi2053
    @siddjoshi2053 6 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    *_W.Shakespeare is the original Q.Tarantino._*

    • @adren4306
      @adren4306 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I never thought about it that way. Interesting.

    • @Motofanable
      @Motofanable 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just watch movie version en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Andronicus

    • @komalahayes1535
      @komalahayes1535 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I almost picked English for grad school over Sociology. I wanted to study how Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Tarintino were linked😋NERRRD!!!! 😛😛😛

    • @charliechaplin7959
      @charliechaplin7959 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Komala Hayes Did you read Erich Fromm?

    • @mattj.7756
      @mattj.7756 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be a great “Change My Mind” challenge

  • @puru397
    @puru397 6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Another excellent line from Macbeth:
    "Blow, wind, come, wrack,
    At least we'll die with harness on our back."
    Another perspective on Macbeth would be to look on him as a brave and intelligent man, misled bt a conspiracy of circumstances and misguided by his own frailties. His courage and honesty are obvious in the beginning, obscured and tainted in the middle, and come out again in the end. This is clear from the two great soliloquies towards the ending:
    1) My life has fallen into the sere and the yellow leaf
    And all that should accompany old age
    Such as love, honour, troops of friends
    These I must not look to have, but in their stead
    Mouth-honour, breath, curses not loud but deep
    Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not."
    2) The famous soliloquy beginning : Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow....
    These two monologues show him to be an essentially decent man trapped in a dreadful situation.

    • @jennymacallan9071
      @jennymacallan9071 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      As a retired English teacher, I couldn't agree more. Many of Macbeth's lines show his soul-searching and ambivalence. The "yellow leaf" speech is my favorite. You point out all this quite nicely.

    • @jeannadysart5243
      @jeannadysart5243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      English teacher, too. I agree with you, generally, except for your reluctance to put the consequences of Macbeth's life upon himself. If he was "trapped in a dreadful situation," it was one of his own making. Yes, he has heroic qualities, but his ambition overcame his conscience, his integrity, and his dedication to duty. He dishonored himself, the very definition of a tragic hero.

    • @njrom2975
      @njrom2975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@jeannadysart5243 not a hero anymore , he is now the villain , the protagonist villain

    • @jeannadysart5243
      @jeannadysart5243 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@njrom2975 In Shakespeare's history plays, you can use the term "protagonist villain," though in all my years of teaching Shakespeare, I've only seen that term in a few scholarly papers. But Richard III does comes to mind. In Shakespeare's tragedies, however, you misunderstand the meaning of "tragic hero" if you don't recognize Macbeth (or Hamlet, King Lear, Othello . . . ) as a tragic hero. There are villains in the tragedies, to be sure: Iago, Goneril and Regan, Claudius, Lady Macbeth ...

    • @nix.i
      @nix.i ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@njrom2975 ‘Protagonist villain’ sounds pretty clunky, and only Shakespeare tragedy in which ‘protagonist villain’ is truly applicable is Richard III (but I would still rather call Gloster a Machiavellian Villain than a protagonist villain, because it‘s more accurate and sounds better). He revels in his villainy and his downfall is glorious. Macbeth, on the other hand, is a tragic hero rather than a villain.

  • @user-dz2hj6jo5h
    @user-dz2hj6jo5h 5 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    “Why you should read Macbeth”
    Me: Read it to pass the aqa gcse literature exam🗿🗿🗿🗿

  • @Star-gt1uu
    @Star-gt1uu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Fairplay to the narrator.That was magnificent

  • @boldandbrash1990
    @boldandbrash1990 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Recently read Macbeth in school. Although many of my classmates were probably disinterested, I couldn't get enough of the story and was completely sucked in. Although I probably wouldn't be able to understand the language without my teacher's help, I'm in love with it. I did, however, accidentally curse my school theater by absentmindedly saying to a friend, "You know, I love Macbeth." One of my favorite hobbies is reading lines of the play when I'm alone (I'm an amateur actor). Anyway, great video. I highly recommend Macbeth to anyone interested in literature!

    • @jeannadysart5243
      @jeannadysart5243 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Macbeth is my favorite tragedy. King Lear is a close second.

    • @boldandbrash1990
      @boldandbrash1990 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jeannadysart5243 I don't remember ever writing this comment wtf

    • @jeannadysart5243
      @jeannadysart5243 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@boldandbrash1990 You know what they say about the Internet . . . you words live on forever!

  • @GabrielKnightz
    @GabrielKnightz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +378

    Suggestion: *Niccolo Machiavelli's Prince.*

    • @kayelao2005
      @kayelao2005 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Or why not the man himself?

    • @GabrielKnightz
      @GabrielKnightz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sure.

    • @hunterpeterson6122
      @hunterpeterson6122 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Warren Peace Or the book he wrote about Ezio Auditore

    • @sejfzlrrhman
      @sejfzlrrhman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood.

    • @charliechaplin7959
      @charliechaplin7959 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Essays of Montaigne.

  • @naokihunter7252
    @naokihunter7252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +741

    *In scottish voice*
    "WHAT YOU EGG"
    *stab*

    • @fivetimesyo
      @fivetimesyo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Without a doubt a high school highlight

    • @Eh-kw1sp
      @Eh-kw1sp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      would that make him a... scotch egg!?

    • @elizabethharris3445
      @elizabethharris3445 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      With a side of small fry...

  • @noahconley867
    @noahconley867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The best part of Macbeth is the fact that j.r.r Tolkien was so disappointed that the trees didn't actually move, he made the Ents.

  • @IAm-IAm-
    @IAm-IAm- 6 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I read Macbeth at Uni and instantly got hooked to it. The gripping drama and tale of deceit was told in a way i had never come across in classic English literature before. Shakespeare's Macbeth was way ahead of its time exploring the depths of human psychology. I loved it.

    • @Finarphin
      @Finarphin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't agree Macbeth is ahead of its time; it's more like it's behind its time. Although it is psychological, psychology as a science hadn't been developed yet. It's main focus is spiritual, and specifically Christian, which, for the most part, has gone out of fashion these days. Has drama improved since Shakespeare? Has sculpture improved since Michelangelo?

    • @znn4125
      @znn4125 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Finarphin You trying to be different so bad

  • @mariazia9407
    @mariazia9407 6 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    oh my..the animations are stunning 😍

  • @remixtheidiot5771
    @remixtheidiot5771 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    School gives me a bad impression on these stories the channel recommends because of how school forces us to read and memorize them without any give on the matter, but I might just give them another chance thanks to these videos...

  • @lenkngomez8451
    @lenkngomez8451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    This book, plus lord of the flies and other books you have mentioned I have never read them in school mainly because I thought it was boring and never wanted to do a project on them. I felt like they were forced on , I felt like they didn’t wanted to teach you the actual meaning of it, just read do the exam and blah blah blah so we can move on. This video alone makes me want to read and dive in the human psyche and consciousness especially the lord of the flies one. I’m going to read all of them.

    • @bbilal111
      @bbilal111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m guessing you still didn’t?

  • @luisagf1385
    @luisagf1385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    “Some of the most memorable passages in English literature”
    Me: “what, you egg [he stabs him]”

  • @hashaborgonja
    @hashaborgonja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    The essence of McBeth, man's rebellion against nature is an eons old one. Think of something so ancient as the Babylonian creation myth, and you'll see the same themes repeated again and again.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hasábburgonya What rebellion?

    • @hashaborgonja
      @hashaborgonja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The King represetns the natural state of things. KIlling him is rebelling against what's natural and makes you unnatural.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hasábburgonya What make him natural?

    • @hashaborgonja
      @hashaborgonja 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Htoo Doh adhering to the existing power-structures. The video quite clearly states why that theme was relevant when the play was written.

    • @htoodoh5770
      @htoodoh5770 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hasábburgonya The nature of things are always changing.

  • @Careless-Scholar
    @Careless-Scholar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    the Gunpowder Plot...
    and today is 2nd November...The timing could not be more perfect...
    'Remember, Remember the 5th of November...'

    • @H157-p1q
      @H157-p1q 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Priyank Jain Would it be more perfect on the 5th of November?

    • @Careless-Scholar
      @Careless-Scholar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      *Wouldn't
      and yes, It would be. But What's done is done ;)
      (Now who is witty) :P :P

    • @Kitisuneh
      @Kitisuneh 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Priyank Jain what is that from?

    • @Careless-Scholar
      @Careless-Scholar 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Poem? www.potw.org/archive/potw405.html
      visit the link. Its an English Folk Poem

    • @reginaphalange3537
      @reginaphalange3537 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Priyank Jain today is

  • @TomSistermans
    @TomSistermans 6 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    Come on you guys, I love these literature recommendations but I can't keep up! I haven't even started the Aeneid yet

    • @omaralmubayd
      @omaralmubayd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      omg... "Aeneid" by Virgil would take a lot of your time ...but trust me it is worth every second ...

    • @TomSistermans
      @TomSistermans 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Omar Almubayd definitely, I just recently started reading these classics, I mean Ulysses sounds really interesting as well, but so do the tale of Genji, in search for lost time, the divine comedy, Don Quixote, the Canterbury tales, crime and punishment, Oedipus Rex and the epic of Gilgamesh! All books worth a video like this, all books I own, but all monsters worth a lot of time!

    • @charliechaplin7959
      @charliechaplin7959 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you read the Essays of Montaigne? It is by FAR my favorite of the "classics."

    • @gabrielallen6896
      @gabrielallen6896 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fyuch I'm hot. By,

  • @somyajindal
    @somyajindal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Dear TedEd, your team is doing literally magical work, please never stop!

  • @LeviAckerman-xz6mi
    @LeviAckerman-xz6mi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:22 the way they placed the crown was beautiful

  • @sophiemontecalvo7503
    @sophiemontecalvo7503 6 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Because it's AWESOME
    Okay Ted-Ed, now for your more in-depth answer

    • @bsriram6353
      @bsriram6353 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Perfect answer.

  • @kc-gr9rj
    @kc-gr9rj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    pov: it’s 10:25pm and i- your watching this for m- your honors english assignment

  • @ruthydrawsalot1979
    @ruthydrawsalot1979 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This was a great story and has some of the best plot twists ever.I read it for literature class in grade nine in my high school and most people thought it was boring but I loved it

    • @cr3ations
      @cr3ations 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I hope literature has stayed with you since then!

  • @ninetynine_not_out
    @ninetynine_not_out 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The switches in the accents are just too good. Mad respect.

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Something wicked this way comes" - didn't know that was from MacBeth! We must have studied this play in high school, as I can recall the Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow speech and subsequent lines from it. How chilling!

  • @saurabhbanik7811
    @saurabhbanik7811 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The animation style is just amazing!!!!
    Also i love how the dialogues are said in a Scottish accent!!

  • @SonofSethoitae
    @SonofSethoitae ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Don't read Macbeth if you can avoid it, see it performed. Shakespeare plays weren't meant to be read, they were meant to be seen acted out on a stage.

  • @sweetnsourpotatoes3323
    @sweetnsourpotatoes3323 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    What a mesmerising voice

  • @alextrahan6400
    @alextrahan6400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    my English teacher keeps assigning videos like this (Julius Caesar) and little does she know I’ve already seen these..

  • @AloisAgos
    @AloisAgos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you wish to poison a noble man, do not gift him a snake, gift him power.

  • @i_am_me1238
    @i_am_me1238 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    2:12
    Did people do this (🤘🏻) in Shakespeare's time?

  • @sumbulnasim45
    @sumbulnasim45 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Great job!!! This is a very good series. How beautifully you compressed the 5-Act play in 6 minutes. That's a fantastic job! Keep it up!

  • @MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing
    @MonkeyWhoWouldBeKing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just one correction:
    the succession of James VI and I was not a surprise move. He was the next in the line of succession and (in the immediate aftermath of the war of the roses) the english nobles were very heavily invested in sticking to the rules as written.
    He had been receiving a pension from the english crown for years prior to Elizabeth Tudor's death to incentivise him not to do anything that would make his succession politically inconvenient.
    Everyone knew he was going to be king basically since Elizabeth got to menopause.

  • @Paulkuriansunny
    @Paulkuriansunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    It's been adapted into a Malayalam film called JOJI and it's freaking amazing.

  • @RumcajsMan
    @RumcajsMan 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nothing has ever convinced me more to read a book better than these videos. You guys are doing great work.

  • @hayakhan2738
    @hayakhan2738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I played the role of lady Macbeth in an annual function at school .
    It was such a great and unforgettable experience. Truly memorable ! 😍❤️

    • @thediaryofjane5713
      @thediaryofjane5713 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi!! Not sure if you'll se this but after the play had anything happend? I've heard the play was cursed and the only way to undo is by spinning and spitting over your shoulder than quoting a play of Shakespeare or saying a profanity.

  • @dhanishhamdhan769
    @dhanishhamdhan769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I absolutely love the way he recites the prophecies and curses

  • @ComputerChris2
    @ComputerChris2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    *_WHAT, YOU EGG?_*

    • @heliotropezzz333
      @heliotropezzz333 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's also another nice bird based quotation after one character's family is murdered and he finds out "What, all my pretty chickens and their dam in one fell swoop?" and another about night time when "birds take wing to the rooky wood" ( I may not be wholly right as this is from memory.)

  • @Hattes
    @Hattes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This video is so frickin' amazing it gives me shivers multiple times viewing it. I am in awe.

  • @hansooled
    @hansooled ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ted-ed 's animators are like the most creative people everrr

  • @SuicideBunny6
    @SuicideBunny6 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Never read or seen the play, but it surely sounds interesting. I loved the animation!

  • @anastasian5619
    @anastasian5619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Anyone else’s watching this for English 🥲

  • @godhimself7708
    @godhimself7708 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Along with the animation and the perfect voice over, the background score is on point!

  • @yujinC
    @yujinC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ted ed- why should we read Macbeth?
    Me- because it's coming in the exam¿

  • @CancerGaming56
    @CancerGaming56 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The comments:
    *What, you egg?*
    I was forced to do this in school
    Cool animation and good voice acting.

  • @martincisternas4889
    @martincisternas4889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not only the animations are incredible, but the background music as well. Very good job 👍🏻

  • @ivanxin5609
    @ivanxin5609 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    the Scottish accent of Macbeth is awesome!

  • @J1P2K
    @J1P2K 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I read the play back in high school. My favorite part of the lesson was when me, and two other boys with the same name, played the ghosts that the witches summon to tell Macbeth his future.

  • @0901강민재
    @0901강민재 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    맥베스의 말 "꺼져라, 꺼져라 수명이 짧은 촛불이여! 인생은 단지 걸어다니는 그림자일뿐, 무대 위에서는 자기 역할에 따라 뽐내기도, 안달하기도 하지만 이후로는 더 이상 들리지 않는 가련한 배우와 같지. 인생은 바보가 들려준, 소란과 분노로 가득찬 이야기네. 다 헛된 것이지." 이 구절이 저에게 큰 울림을 주었습니다. 진정한 삶의 의미, 내가 열심히 삶을 사는 이유에 대하여 많은 생각을 하게 해주었습니다. 좋은 시간 정말 감사합니다.

  • @patriciasmith1091
    @patriciasmith1091 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is an incredibly well done intro to Macbeth and exactly what my students need in this video centric world. I show it to my students every semester and it really piques their interest. Seriously - great job! Thank you so much for this video!

  • @andrequevedopacheco1027
    @andrequevedopacheco1027 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    3:27 "The Shinning" reference

  • @rustyshackle8000
    @rustyshackle8000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Probably my favorite play ever, besides the Crucible. It got to the point I was once able to read Macbeth's monologue off the top of my head, and was overjoyed when ig ot to be him during a reading of it in high school.

  • @divine.reveries4256
    @divine.reveries4256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is so beautifully portrayed. More like these videos please. Let the literature live and breathe into life. Thanks.

  • @fortress6721
    @fortress6721 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The narrator deserves a raise. Immaculate voice acting

  • @arasumeyyappan6220
    @arasumeyyappan6220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Who came here after watching JOJI (malayalam movie)

  • @chibimena
    @chibimena 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Absolutely beautiful. I got chills multiple times watching this and am wondering how it has taken me so long to read this since I am an English major after all.

  • @jivonne1991
    @jivonne1991 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love these literary recommendations! Please keep ‘Em coming!

  • @sabashukvani
    @sabashukvani 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the greatest tragedies I've ever read in my life. Truly brilliant piece of literature written by great Shakespeare himself!

  • @siddharthnair6792
    @siddharthnair6792 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone gives this creator a prize for Story description

  • @Jomster777
    @Jomster777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    _"The Pit?"_ *Starts punching someone and smashing one's body unto someone elses*

  • @vkvarman2422
    @vkvarman2422 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Modern day Macbeth : House of Cards

  • @TheMikester307
    @TheMikester307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Lesson?" It didn't feel like a lesson! As entertaining as the play itself!

  • @LadyoftheDreamless14
    @LadyoftheDreamless14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I had to take my grade 10 english class 3 times and so i got to read this play 3 times. I adore it!!

  • @ijeleo92
    @ijeleo92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This animation is amazing!!!!!🙌 I wish there was a series like this.

  • @thanatos9258
    @thanatos9258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I may have been forced to read this, but it was definitely one of the most intriguing stories I’ve ever read

  • @willparker9874
    @willparker9874 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    LM act 2: a little water clears us of this deed
    LM act 5: suppose ill just kill myself

  • @saumyadipnandy2060
    @saumyadipnandy2060 6 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Please continue the 'history on trial' series

  • @csl9843
    @csl9843 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This and the riddles are my favorite series

  • @eugferreira1101
    @eugferreira1101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantasic video and narration, but there's nothing better than reading the text in English, of course. Otherwise, you'll miss most of it. Well, if you also have the opportunity to see the play, don't miss it either.
    Shakespeare's work is timeless. I love it.

  • @noahmiller8042
    @noahmiller8042 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    man, the animation is FANTASTIC