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Can’t believe I’ve only found your channel a week before the exams but your saving this last minute revision thank you

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😃

was scared there wasn’t gonna be a video on macduff, but you’ve saved me again 🙏🙏

@INeedGooderGrades

Ай бұрын

nah AQA aint gonna do that as there's no higher tier or foundation tier for english they aint gonna doe foundation kids like that (I mean set 4 -6) luckily I'm set 3 it will never ever ever be on macduff ever in history

Also interestingly, the last quote “hail…” mirrors what the witches called Macbeth “Hail King to be…” etc to foreshadow that further chaos and destruction could occur that may result in fleance being crowned.

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! 😃

@danielsavin4627

Жыл бұрын

Thinking like that gonna give u the grade 9

@subbhy3791

Жыл бұрын

@@danielsavin4627 haha thanks!

this was really helpful as we did little work on macduff in school, thank you!

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

i hope you channel blooms like the other 3 major english channels cuz u are giving such good content for free!

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

Thank yooooou 🥰

I just wanted to comment about how useful this is, ive never been able to remember quotes until watching your videos. They have helped me so much and they have definitely saved my english lit gcse :)

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

That's AWESOME! Thank you - glad to have helped!

thank you! this is really helpful :)

Hi. I'm a professional actor and will be auditioning for Macduff soon. In deciding to refresh my memory I stumbled upon this video. I must say it is excellent. While I'm aware it is intended for students, your concise, thorough and articulate analysis of the language and meanings is very helpful to anyone interested. I just wanted to say thank you.

@FirstRateTutors

2 ай бұрын

Wow, that's amazing - thank you so much! It means a lot to me 😊

Very helpful thanks but in the next videos will it be possible to stand a bit more to the side so we can see the quotes. Thanks

thank you so much :3 exams are Soon these videos are helping me quite a lot

@FirstRateTutors

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome and I hope your exams went well! 😃

Got my English Lit paper 1 tomorrow, here for last min revision 😭😭

@rilee3131

Ай бұрын

We can do this bro

@desirablesubliminals

Ай бұрын

Same

@HB2008sh

Ай бұрын

Same

very useful, thanks

“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The lord’s anointed temple” -Act 2, Scene 3 Theme of ambition divine right of kings. Doesn’t have ambition which is good in Shakespeare’s time as it means he wouldn’t want to rise above his social position. Horrified someone would have ambition to kill the king. Alliteration emphasizes that what he’s seen is unspeakable of. Horrifying. His body is referred to as a “temple” to reinforce the holiness of Duncan’s reign. “O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant” -Act 4, Scene 3 Theme of kingship Country is powerful when the right leader is in power (chosen by god). When the wrong person is in power it leads to the ruin of the country. Almost at war with itself. Great chain of being. Personification of “nation miserable” to show that Scotland is crushed under the weight of the wrong king. “all my pretty chickens… At one fell swoop?” -Act 4, Scene 3 Theme of ambition. Metaphor pretty chickens. Shows they’re vulnerable, innocent. He can’t even put up a fair fight. Evil. Superstition. The view that being around or listening to Witches could turn you into a evil person. “From his mother’s womb untimely ripped” -Act 5, Scene 8 Theme of supernatural Declarative sentence. Illustrating to Macbeth hat his time is done. He’s going to die. Macduff is the key character that restores the natural order. Witches had deliberately talked in half truths. He should have never trusted them. Macduff’s distrust of the supernatural reflects the Jacobean distrust of witches. “The usurper’s cursed head.. Hail, King of Scotland!” -Act 5, Scene 8 Theme of ambition Reinforces how ambition can be corrupting. Divine Right if Kings is respected by Macduff. Gives crown back showing he has no ambition and he wants to restore natural order. Illustrated through the exclamatory sentence as well as the noun “usurped”. Disgusted.

this is so helpful thank you! have you done similar videos for othello?

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

I did lots and lots of videos for Othello! Look at the Othello shorts and just search "First Rate Tutors Othello" - you'll find plenty.

isnt the last quotes in Act 5 scene 9? perhaps there was a typo during the making of the video

You explained the first quote abit vaguely, the alliteration of M was not really well explained as to how you linked it, please explain it again

@vertzify285

2 ай бұрын

Just in general ,your links made to context for me have a ambiguous relation to the quote

@blossomroblox1721

Ай бұрын

well there wasn’t much else to explain so mabey re watch it

can you do this for each character in Macbeth?

@FirstRateTutors

Жыл бұрын

Yes did it already for all Macbeth characters - just search the videos posted in January to see the videos 😊

Hold up who was the elder son of duncan???

@FirstRateTutors

Ай бұрын

Malcolm 😭

very helpful🤭

@FirstRateTutors

8 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

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