Understanding FAUST, Part 1 (Dedication , Prelude & Prologue)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This video is the first part of a series about FAUST by Goethe, specifically made for people who can't read the original German. I very much hope you give Faust a try, I hope you enjoy it and that this video helped you do so.
Truly sorry for the terrible lighting in the video. I'm doing what I can to fix it.
00:00 Reading Faust
01:45 Translation
02:56 Dedication
10:46 Prelude on the stage
28:14 Prologue in heaven
your videos are a balm to my heart in the mornings
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I'm coming to Faust for the first time and so grateful for your elucidation of this exciting work for me. I'm looking forward to embarking on this voyage with you.
I just started reading Faust and getting into it with your guide is such a pleasure! I hope this series continues so I can also end it with the company of your videos :))
Thank you so much for this, the timing is perfect for me. I'm just now exploring Goethe and am in love, I can't wait for more of these :)
I'm glad ❤
Those line in the dedication which you were said that you will feel the goosebumps but I felt more than that, everytime I read it. Just mesmerizing in it.
thank you for this video. i have never been able to get into Faust but your passion for it has gotten me motivated to give it another go
Yey ❤
I've mentioned your previous Faust video on my blog, and you are absolutely right about its importance.
Thank you for this follow-up, it was really insightful!
Oh wow I feel honoured ❤ Thank you! Would you share your blog?
@@strange.lucidity Oh, it's just a small, cozy and whimsical blog called Research and Testing. But I don't think one may find it by Googling "Research and Testing" because it is so small. Its address starts with eight Times the letter "a", then "1337" (which can be Googled). The post title is "Every researcher should read Faust", posted on November 10, it is currently right under the most recent post.
Amazing video. This is the exact kind of stuff I hope for when watching booktube.
Yey ❤
You inspired me to read this book, from your last video on Faust. I just finished part one. I really loved it! 👍
So glad to hear that!! ❤
Our fingers’ stringless intricate design
was meant to twirl and dance through soulmate hair.
A glimpse the victim of medusa eyes;
we scroll through girls who can’t return the stare.
Is on a screen where all of beauty’s set?
Without our leaps, too wild grows the grass-
-no one to hold you when your lust resets,
or roll you down the hill, to chase you back.
Thy eye is not for angel holograms.
Thy finger not for swiping endlessly.
Imagine not having to look again!
no winter thaws within a soulmate’s glance.
That blizzards lasts within forever;
and all models into dust dismember. -my sonnet
Wow, thank you for sharing ❤
" When the German poet, Goethe, was dying, somebody said ‘In your long life you must have enjoyed many beautiful moments.’ He was a man of great caliber, one of the greatest geniuses of the world, and multi-dimensional. But the question made him very sad. He said ‘If I count then it can’t come to more than two weeks in my whole life. But those are the only two weeks that I have really lived - a few moments far and few between; those were the real moments. I have lived only two weeks, the rest has been just a wastage.’ If Goethe said that, what about an ordinary man? - not even two weeks."
GOETHE ONCE WROTE IN HIS ‘GOETZ VON BERLICHINGEN’, “POVERTY, CHASTITY AND OBEDIENCE - UNBEARABLE ARE THEY ALL.”
It is absolutely correct. These are the three calamities that have ruined the very being of humanity. Obedience means, in other words, slavery. We are very clever to use good words for ugly realities. I do not teach you disobedience; this has to be understood clearly. Obedience is ugly, and the human mind moves like a pendulum of a clock - it immediately goes to the opposite. Then it starts making disobedience the law of life. Disobedience is only reaction. If there is no obedience imposed on you, disobedience will disappear automatically because there is nothing to disobey. So I have to make it clear to you that I hate obedience, but in that obedience disobedience is included, because they are part of one reality. I teach intelligence.
Obedience keeps you retarded. You have just to follow; you are not to doubt, you are not to question, you have just to be a robot. Naturally, sooner or later, particularly younger people start feeling that all this obedience is nothing but a strategy to impose slavery. They react, and move to the other extreme. Whatever is said, don’t do it - that becomes their religion. In both the ways they remain retarded. My struggle is against the retardedness of human mind. I want you to be intelligent, to decide for yourself.
I can explain something to you. I can put all my cards open before you. Now it is up to you to decide what to do. Action is going to be your decision. Explanation can be done by your parents, by your teachers, by the society, but explanation is not an order to act. They are simply making you aware of the whole situation. Making you aware of the whole situation makes you intelligent; you become more alert, you start seeing things which you were not seeing before. You become aware of new directions, new dimensions, new ways of looking at things.
But there is no order that you have to act according to the explanation given to you.
Action has to come from your own intelligence, from your own understanding. It will not be obedience, it will not be disobedience. Sometimes you may feel it perfectly right to do something, but that is your decision. Sometimes you may feel it is not right to do something; that too is your decision. The more decisions you are allowed to take, the more your intelligence is sharpened. Obedience takes away the very base of growth, it simply orders you."
Hello!!
Your work here on RUclips is amazing! Keep going, we need more channels speaking about good literature. From Austria to Brazil 💙
Thank you so much for this kind comment. So glad to have you here ❤
The last month has been a long and beautiful journey into this masterpiece- on part 2 , Act IV now- your insights into the beginning has illuminated some of the themes that flow through the book for me. Very interested to hear you continue this and I dearly hope you will traverse into part 2 aswell. Also your German is beautiful- I am regretting not knowing German if just so I may hear the rhythm and flow that Goethe intends- hearing it from you is nice -thank you
Wonderful. I'm so glad to read all that ❤
Thank you for the wonderful lecture. I am studying German but I am not up to reading Faust yet, and I won't be for a long time, but I really like your guide. However, I appreciate what you say about the ability to read a masterpiece in the original language, especially a work of poetry.❤
You are definitely an inspiration. Faust is not an easy read but your enthusiasm for it is infectious.
Mayyybee after I have watched your video today I was so excited to get and read a copy of Faust myself that, on my way to Potsdam (the city I am studying in), I decided to make a detour to Berlin to get a beloved Reclam! Your passion is contagious, thank you! Have a wonderful start into the new week :)
Haha no wayyyy. ❤ You have no idea how happy that just made me :D Love it!
Beautiful interpretation. I love your passions for Universally Literature.❤
Thank you 🙏
I absolutely Adore!! this wonderfully presented passion for Goethe's magnum opus. I am yet to read my copy and I am overjoyed that my first take on this epic masterpiece classic has now become irrevocably, not that I would even dream of wishing to eradicate your presentation, infused with your own and very personal sharing of your devoted interpretation. Thank you so so much.
Amazing to hear!! Thank you for your kind comment ❤
Thank you so much for this enlightening introduction to Faust. I’m not sure if you plan to be a teacher or professor of literature but if so your future students will be lucky to have your passion and insight….I’ve been reading the Iliad and the discussions between Zeus and Hera and Hephaestus et al about what to do with the Greeks and Trojans reminds me of the banter between everyone in Faust; the angels and god and Mephistopheles. Perhaps Agamemnon is a stand-in for the “grasshopper” of man, the darker side which stays on the ground with his baseness. Achilles appeals to the better angels, so to speak. Anyway, a loose analogy but it struck me. You’ve achieved a wonderful thing, which is to send me to Faust and read it myself. It’s not so daunting now, thanks to your help😊 I look forward to your next video❤
Thank you for this kind compliment. That means a lot to me that you think I would be a good teacher ❤ So glad to be of help and I hop you keep on enjoying Faust. All the best to you!
Re: Falstaff of the Henry plays: my heart broke when the risen King, so recently young Prince Hal and so tight with Falstaff, blanks him and biblically denies his friend, turning the cold shoulder of betterment and propriety in his now exalted stature; the only redemption for King Henry the Fifth here is the loss he is feeling as he assumes stiff responsibility, being forced to discard his past.
Beautiful story about the art and evils.
The strive comment puts me in mind of a P.B. Shelley quote: "Hope til Hope ceases upon its' own wreck"
Thanks for sharing. ❤
You're so very welcome! Keep the increased number and length of videos coming, especially these in depth ones please?!
Sadly tho I am yet to receive any replies upon my enquiry asking about people's favourite literary characters, so could you please ask this to your viewers on my behalf? Little Nell of Dickens fame is another of those characters for whom I feel most sympathy. In terms of time in literature she embodies the hopeful hopelessness and desperation of Dickensian England's poverty!
Omg this video is soo helpful to me right now that i'm reading the play ,thank uuuu so much
This was so fabulous, I am so happy to indulge in these series with my beautiful copy of Faust, though a different translation, it’s lovely to hear the different poetry. Your analysis alongside is also very insightful and the love of the text contagious, I mean you got me on the Faust train weeks ago😊. Thank you so much❤️
Oh thank you so much for this kind comment ❤
Beautiful ❤thank you 🎉
Gonna bookmark this and come back after I've read Faust, but thank you for making your knowledge available!
Amazing. Curious how you'll like it.
Wonderful! I have been working on improving my German skills. You have given me further motivation. Thank you.
So happy to hear that ❤ Thanks for sharing.... und alles Gute! ;)
Loved your readings fr Faust and your insights/commentary
Also enjoy hearing you read the German as well. So insightful. I just got my book in English and hoping to start today!
That's so great to hear ❤ ❤ ❤
_Once more you hover near me, forms and faces_
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_You closer press: then take your powers and places,_
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_Deep stirs my heart, awakened, touched to song,_
_as from a spell that flashes from your throng._
Soooo different... Thanks for sharing!!
I like "The Mueller Report" and "The Durham Report" the best.
Boy oh boy oh boy! How different can translations be!? I have an older Penguin Classics translated by Philip Wayne and it seems so noticeably different from your version (on screen), I am almost ruffled.
What a calming voice you have. Read all my books to me
I would love to read books to people yeah :D
I agree, her voice is beautiful.
Faustus.. 🐱🐈😋🖤
If ever you fancy it, there is a comical adaptation of the Faust myth by English playwright Christopher Marlowe. Nowhere near as profound and arcane as Goethe's, of course; yet refreshingly witty and lively. It caused quite a moral panic among the Elizabethan puritan elite when it was performed in theatres.
Thanks for sharing. Sounds interesting 🙏
Are you referring to "Dr Faustus"? I believe you may be and, so, thank you for cleariy up for me that this is a separate, different version and not merely a translation.
@@weenyboyscott6222 Yes, Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
When is the next part coming out? I'm currently reading this for school and this really helped me understand the book better since I'm not German. Thank you so much for this💓💓
Great. I'm so happy it helped you ❤ I'm not sure yet. I'm planning either next week or the week after that...
I have bought a decent 2nd hand copy of _Faust._ When I will get to it, alas I know not. I have however just finished _Martin Chuzzlewit_ by Charles Dickens! And I found this, very very good: it is patent but deep, full of seemingly general detail and yet moving and meaningful. And the first 300 pages might not seem very much (maybe, of course). But out of his first 5 or 6 novels - apart from _Nicholas Nickleby_ - it is surely the best!
Amazing! Thank you so much for this. :)
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@@strange.lucidity I have the John R. Williams translation- it seems to be vastly different. I haven't finished the video due to work, but I plan to today. Would you be able to suggest where I should read to for the next vid, before it comes out? Thanks!
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Que vous êtes charmante ❤
Oooh merci 🙂
love Faust! That would be nice if you could do sth. in German. I read intelligent commentaries👏👏👏👌👌
Yeah that could be fun... 🙂
Maria you really ought to think about applying/ proposing to record some audio books?!
Great video! If you ever want to go over the book with us, let me know! (I have to keep this comment as ambiguous as possible - otherwise RUclips auto deletes it as spam)
This hits ...where's part two
I'll hope to bring it out in the next weeks
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Ihre Erläuterungen gefallen mir sehr. Bitte achten Sie aber einmal darauf, wie oft Sie mit der Hand durch Ihre Haare fahren! Ich finde, das lenkt von Ihrem Vortrag ab.
Danke. Haha ja, meine Haare haben gerade eine unangenehme Länge :D
Do you know that the word "galore" means "plenty", derived from the original Scottish Gaelic " Gu leoir"?!
Why You Are Reading Augustines Confessions?
Who are RAPHAEL, GABRIEL, and MICHAEL respectively? Are they retinues of god? Please forgive my ignorance of religions.
Randomly, I just wanna say my favourite Shakespearian character is, by miles and miles beyond all others, Sir John Falstaff. Any of you have a favourite character in literature, Shakespeare or otherwise?
This video is flawed on a conceptual level. It is not about "Understanding Faust", it is about "Understanding individual sentences in Faust". A book is more than the sum of its parts. You failed to present any high-level thoughts on what Faust is about. Not "lucid" at all.
Also, you talk too slow and with a low information density. Get to the point.
not really sure sure why a first year undergrad thinks they "understand" Faust
Not really sure why, naming yourself James Joyce, you feel you have the right nor remit to cruelly criticise someone vulnerably opening themselves up in aid of some of us who welcome her insight and offering. If you know better perhaps you could link us to your in depth analysis video! Or are you too busy off writing Ulysses so as to make a worthwhile contribution, such as your namesake lacked to offer the Country during the war, because, his words "he was writing Ulysses"!