Thanks lol

I have my exam in 2 hours

@@rualduck2522 did you do romeo and juliet?

@Equanimitydid you do romeo and juliet?

@Equanimity what was your question?

Thank you for your comment and I hope the exams go well.

And that’s on Millennials 🎯👻

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English lit tmw?😂

@@Simardeepsingh30 hhahaha gowan need to recap

English on Monday 😂

Yes i never read the book

Me too, good luck :)

you are not alone 👌

Same tho!!! Good luck guys! I'm sure you will all do great!!!!!

Thank you!

All right

I'm very pleased to hear that. Thank you.

That's great: thank for letting me know. Hope the exams went well.

That's good to hear. I'm very pleased that you found it useful and thanks for letting me know.

I'm very pleased to hear that the video helped with the mock exam, and thank you for your feedback.

I hope the exam goes well.

me toooo les go (im so cookeeeddd)

Thank you: it's great to hear that you found the video useful.

I have to do an essay on fate, what were your three points? I’m struggling 😭

@@nikkirana6922 I will go see if I can find that essay haha it was from a year ago so no promises!

Patrick: Thank you for your comments. I do plan to do various character analyses, but I have a few other videos in the pipeline before I will get to these. Thanks again for your kind words and I'm very pleased that you are finding the videos useful.

Jetblack thank you! When is your exam?

@@DrAidan one week later, on Tuesday but it's okay if I can't watch it in this week. you have perfect videos already about Shakespeare and they really are helping me right now :D please keep up the good work

Thank you and thanks also for the question. The word 'take' is defined in more than 100 ways in the OED, but I am thinking about 'take' in the sense of 'accepting something from' or 'assuming a particular form because of'. So they TAKE their lives from their parents in the sense that they're given those lives by their parents and they take the form they do because of that. Of course, there is then the secondary sense that later in the play they TAKE their lives - in that they kill themselves. I hope that's helpful, but do get back to me if you have any other questions.

Very glad to hear you found it helpful. Thanks for commenting.

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Please don’t swear, swearing is for fat losers

I hope it goes very well.

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I hope it goes very well.

how'd you do

@@Isa-ny2ec I ended up getting a 7 for literature😁😅

​@@halimadualeh280any tips?? my exams are later this year

*you're* '( I am here to haunt you of your past trepidations disguised as 'English GCSE' I am now to be faced with over-morrow.)

You too brother

Thank you. I’m pleased it was helpful.

Very glad to hear that Sakina. Thanks for letting me know.

hi, Dr Aidan, my friend told me about the videos you post about Shakespeare on KZfaq and when I saw them it was really helpful and beneficial!! Thank You So Much 😁😁

Fatima. That's great to hear: I'm very pleased that you are finding the videos useful. And do say thank you to your friend, on my behalf, for telling you about my channel.

@@DrAidan my Pleasure honestly very Nice n Beneficial Channel! 😁💕

@@DrAidan no problem my pleasure😁😁 And I'll say thank you to my amazing friend Sakina on your behalf 😁

raeesah kara it’s called ‘new animated PowerPoint’ I have it and it’s really useful

Good question: the references can be found underneath each quote in the format ACT/SCENE/LINE - so 1.1.25 would be Act 1, Scene 1, Line 25. Hope that helps!

Dr Aidan thanks my literary essay is tomorrow I hope I get a good grade

Hisham. Thank you for your comment: the fourth video is now available. I hope it is useful.

A very good question. I would look in Act 1, Scene 4. If you want one quote that you can discuss try Romeo's lines: 'You have dancing shoes With nimble soles, I have soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.' (1.4.14-16) This sums up the quandary he finds himself in. They Montague boys want to go to the Capulet ball - they are keen and so have feet that want to dance at the ball. Romeo also wants to go to the ball to see Rosaline but, as we will soon discover, he has a sense of foreboding (a premonition of his own death - see 1.4.109-10). That's why he uses the pun on 'sole' to say he has a 'soul of lead': this communicates that his heart and feet are metaphorically 'heavy' and don't want to carry him to the ball. You can then link it to the Queen Mab speech - where Mercutio convinces him to ignore fate and go to the ball - and then end your discussion with reference to lines 1.4.106-113 where he voices his continuing concern that his fate will be death, BUT decides to abandon himself to that fate and goes with the rest of the Montagues. Hope that's useful, but if you still have questions send me another note.

Dr Aidan I need another example of fate vs free will. Is that fine?

@@sonjhitle4326 Fate versus Free Will is not as overt in this play as, say, Macbeth, so the links are subtler. You could start by discussing the sense that these two lovers are fated to die by quoting the Prologue - they are after all, 'star-crossed lovers': Fate seems to have decided their future in advance as a way of reuniting the two warring families. You could then use moments like the one I mentioned from 1.4 to discuss the role of free will. Other examples might be where Juliet discovers 'her only love sprung from (her) only hate' in 1.5.137. She could stay with 'hating' the Montagues, but she decides to pursue love instead. If you can go outside Act 1 you can then discuss Romeo's decision to climb back over the wall into the orchard to meet Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2). He had a choice there. Lastly, you could reflect on these lines from Act 5, Scene 3: 'See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love; (3.3.292-3) Heavenlyhatred by creating the circumstances by which this hatred is punished (scourged) by love which, ironically, kills their 'joys' (Romeo and Juliet)in the process. This suggests that the Capulets and Montagues exercised their free will to hate each other, and heaven provides the FATED remedy by making their children fall in love. You can then speculate about where free will starts and ends - do they have free will to love but not to hate? Hope that is useful.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will put them on my list!

Me lol

Bruh there was this one comment telling u how to get a 7 in English lit and I used the method and got a 6+ and now I can’t find the comment or remember the method