This is actually perfect. I have my English Macbeth Mock exam in 8 days time. Your videos may just me my saving grace. Thank you Mr. Salles!

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Just want to say thank you sooooo much for everything you do. Your hard work is so appreciated. I’m aiming for grade 8-9 and had no idea how I’d get there because I had no deeper knowledge of Macbeth. This guide seriously just took a weight off my chest and I finally feel like I can get there. Thank you sir.

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King James: Yo, Shakespeare! Y are the witches speaking in trochaic tetrameter?! U making fun of me, Bro??

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For the 2021 exams, u think there’s a chance of witches coming up because the supernatural was already a question before

This is perfect for last minute revision. Thank you ever so much. You are honestly making my life so much easier in English!

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This is brilliant and I wish I'd found your channel a little bit earlier, you are so intuitive when it comes to understanding these texts! I was wondering what you would think of this essay I wrote in response to the Macbeth & Banquo opinions of the supernatural question (AQA) a few months ago. I'm aware I didn't structure it particularly well, and feel that I could've done better. I was wondering what you would think of it and what you believe I should improve in my technique. I understand you're incredibly busy, and I hope that you keep going with these wonderful videos - thank you so much for everything you've done for British students! The Tragedy of Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in the early 17th century to be performed in the court of King James I, Shakespeare's patron and notorious witch-hunter whose published treatise Daemonologie outlined his extreme views on the subject of witchcraft and the supernatural. The Tragedy presents the supernatural as being innately evil; a force which manipulates good men to perform dark deeds by playing upon their fatal flaws - in Macbeth's case, ambition. This depiction of supernatural forces reflects the attitudes of the contemporary audience, and suggests that Shakespeare's intentions were to please the King by pandering to this hatred. This extract illustrates the effect the supernatural revelations have on an ambivalent Macbeth and on his good friend Banquo. Banquo rejects the witches' prophecies and warns Macbeth that the witches are likely 'instruments of darkness' who seek to 'win' their 'harm'. This astute observation is ignored by Macbeth, who has been deeply affected by the words spoken. Both men believe the witches; the difference between their attitudes lies in their willingness to act upon their predictions. Macbeth recognises that to become King, Duncan must die, and he immediately considers murder, a 'horrid image' which he sees as being 'against the use of nature' - an early implication that the supernatural is completely unnatural and fundamentally wrong. Banquo consistently believes that the witches are a disturbance to the natural order and to peace, while Macbeth is tempted by the achievements they promise despite his awareness that the witches are an expression of 'darkness'. Their unquestioning belief in the legitimacy of the predictions is similar to the beliefs held by the Jacobean audience, and we are also encouraged to believe that the witches genuinely do hold supernatural power through Shakespeare's use of pathetic fallacy - associating the witches with 'thunder' and 'lightning' - and through the paradoxical chiasmus 'fair is foul and foul is fair' of the first scene - a chiasmus is a grammatical reversal, and in this particular context it may symbolise the reversal of Macbeth's character from heroism to regicide, or in a broader context the reversal of the natural to the unnatural. This concept of a rudimentary reversal is highly unnerving - even for an atheist audience, and the paradoxical nature of the statement encourages any audience to question their core beliefs of the meanings of what is 'foul' and what is 'fair'. Shakespeare presents the supernatural as being both veritable and frightening. To Banquo the fright incited is dissuading and causes him to reject their enticements. In contrast, Macbeth is easily seduced by their words, in spite of his fear, in both this extract and the play as a whole. An clear example of Macbeth's attraction to the supernatural is that of the dagger apparition - perhaps the product of his traumatised thoughts acting in conjunction with his wife's emotional manipulation as a hallucinogen or perhaps a genuine expression of the forces of the supernatural - which, instead of discomfitting Macbeth so that he, like Banquo, rejects the bizarre, motivates him to kill the king. Macbeth's willingness to commit treason in accordance with the witches' predictions may imply a weakness of mind, but it is possible that it is the witches' hexes which have overborne better instincts through the exacerbation of his 'dark and deep desires'. Banquo was never the witches' target, so perhaps, had he been charmed as Macbeth had, he may not have rejected their temptations so easily and to these may indeed have capitulated. Macbeth and Banquo have obviously contrasting attitudes to the supernatural - Macbeth's easy seduction and Banquo's easy rejection - which are used by Shakespeare to present the supernatural as dangerously attractive but fundamentally harmful and 'against...nature'. Banquo is a lover of nature (1.4), and a kind father to his son Fleance, whereas Macbeth is the ambitious and insecure husband to a mentally unstable wife disturbingly obsessed with the pursuit of power. It is perhaps the comfort and security of the position Banquo holds - and his satisfaction with this position - which spur him to reject the witches as 'strange' and evil. As the play progresses we learn that Macbeth's life is unhappier than Banquo's, and it is this unhappiness and dissatisfaction with his status which causes his aquiescence. This interpretation suggests that Shakespeare is illustrating the supernatural to be the folly of the miserable man - the succumb to the supernatural symbolises a weakness of mind and a dissatisfaction with the natural. Therefore, Shakespeare presents Macbeth and Banquo as two opposing characters whose attitudes to the supernatural demonstrate their contrasting levels of mental strength to illustrate that the supernatural forces are inherently negative and a capitulation to these forces symbolises a disturbance of the mind. Shakespeare does, however, acknowledge that the forces are seductive and make attractive propositions. Yet he emphasises that these propositions should be rejected, for their rewards come at great costs to he who aquiesces, in accordances with the Jacobean beliefs he was understandably keen to uphold.

Hello, I watched your videos when revising for gcse and ended up getting an 8 in each one, which really helped. However I am now taking English for a levels and struggling quite a bit, it would be very useful if you could possibly make some videos on essay writing at a levels or maybe some examples. At the moment we are studying othello, the great gatsby and poetry love through the ages. But Thankyou again for all the videos !

Hi Mr Salles, please could you update your playlists with all your new videos so that it is easier to find videos relevant to me. Thank you

Thanks, this video was really helpful

That was great

I have a mock in 22 days

would you consider doing a character analysis on edna? im just scared if we ever get a question on her, we'd be screwed

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Hello, do you have any tips for learning how to structure paragraphs. It eats at my head and I start to doubt myself because I have trouble doing so. Also great video this helped a lot!

Hey Mr Salles, Thanks for the help at GCSE, doing A-levels now. Any chance you would make videos on Gatsby or Othello at all?

Salles you need to do more videos like this for macbeth

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Hi Mr Salles. Is it possible for me to send you my answers to questions 1,2 and 3 from an aqa english language practice paper for you to mark?

Hi sir is it possible that i could send u an answer to a Jekyll and Hyde question??

Hi sir do you have any other videos of scene analysis?

how often are you going to be posting these videos of this new course?