2 minutes in, and poor Lola is so distracting. I don’t blame creators when there’s background noise, such is life. We have schedules and things happen. But I just want to pet Lola so she doesn’t feel so lonely or distressed he has to wail. Of course Ruby’s family takes good care of her, this is not meant to be disparaging in any way.
We take books so much for granted! Imagine them being brought to our time and seeing e-readers with hundreds, maybe thousands of books in one small device. And many classics even being available for free. They'd probably faint!
So continually inspired by Ruby's unbridled joy and passion for literature. She also has an ease and enthusiasm in teaching the material that I have not witnessed in many. I always learn something new on this channel and happily! Thank you!
You know Ruby, before I started watching you my interest in classics was quite low, but now that I have watched you for over a year and a half, i know so much! I love books more than ever and I love learning about the Victorian period! This year in our english class we studied an extract of Wuthering Heights and I was so excited, which I don't think I would have in normal circumstances. So I just want to say thank you so much for inspiring me and so many others and keep doing what you're doing!!❤️📚
Just a couple of friendly pronunciation tips - the u in ”cuckoo” is an ”oo” sound (long in American, short in British pronunciation), and the z in Karamazov is not a ”ts” sound but z as in ”zap”.
I grew up on Pilgrim's Progress. I remember the imagery to me seemed very vivid and memorable (scary). My dad read it out loud to us a couple times (which I'm sure helped on interest). I never read it myself. I also know it was more modern English version. We were also of a strict Protestant background, heavy in theology and Church history, so it was not merely fiction to us. And when you hear/read something as a child it leaves strong impressions plus you have nostalgia. Some books just don't hit the same if you read when you are older (this is fluffier obviously, but for example, I feel like I missed the Nancy Drew train, I just don't think I could really appreciate them as an adult as I don't have the nostalgia for them). Also so much of the imagery is used in, for example Little Women. That also reinforced the memory on me.
Hello Ruby, haven't checked into your videos in a while and this one immediately drew me in! I'd love to see more "read with me" or video essay type content. Love learning from you and your love for literature. Wishing you well x
I recently visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth and it was so interesting seeing the place they wrote and lived! It’s was so exciting and seeing the village they lived in was so lovely too. I recommend 100% Love your videos Ruby! 💗
one of my favourite videos you've ever made, so comforting to me. would adore a full video about children's literature that you enjoy and the history. i'm taking a module for my degree on british children's literature post-1945 and am so excited :-)
I’m still working my way through the pilgrim’s progress which has been hard- however I recommend CS Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress !! It’s not nearly as dry, especially the further in the book you get.
You seem to quite like birds, so I may suggest to you "How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher" by Simon Barnes. It was the book that helped me go from liking them and their song when I meet them to knowing how to take full enjoyment of birds and nature. One of the key things he outlines is getting some binoculars and a field guide. I find the RSPB does both well. Today I was out birdwatching, and I identified Greenfinches for the first time. I also saw Egyptian swans, some Grey herons, and shelduck. Bird watching is an incredibly restorative and nourishing hobby, and I think you would very much enjoy it.
Just finished re-reading Wuthering Heights and this pops up, really looking forward to watching the video as I'm getting back into reading a lot lately :)
hello Ruby! I loved the part where you explained the little history behind books dedicated to children in the Victorian Era. I would listen to you narrating any historical topic, really :))! Such a good vlog 🫶🏻🤍
Growing up, we read A Dangerous Journey over and over again. It's an illustrated adaptation of the Pilgrim's Progress. It was so exciting! Full of all the adventurous bits, with fantastic illustrations.
When I watch your videos I miss studying literature sometimes. I've made the right decision to switch majors but that doesn't mean I didn't love my first two semesters. This gives me the same excitement :)
Your brain is an inspiration lol. Going to work through my bookshelf now. I've been stuck on Purgatorio for a while now after reading all of Lovecraft's works and half of Poe.
I love your love for knowledge- thank you for making videos that are full of knowledge and excitement for it! So interesting to see what the Brontë sisters read 😊
Many years ago, I asked for Pilgrim’s Progress for my eleventh birthday because of how heavily it featured in Little Women……have tried to read it countless times over the years ….glad to know I am not alone in my struggles!
What a fabulous video! You cover so much ground with such depth and passion and your readings are wonderful. I love to read outdoors too, lately always with a warm drink clasped in my mitts :) Thanks so much for the continuing inspiration Ruby ❤
Loved this video, the Brontes books were the ones the got me into reading classic literature and my favourite book out of them all definitely has to be Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I recently bought The Tales of Angria by Charlotte Bronte and its based around a world that her and her brother Branwell created when they were young and I haven't read it yet but I thought I would mention this book as I feel like people don't really mention this one and there a lot of people who haven't heard of it . I really enjoy watching your videos because they are so unique to what anybody else on this platform is doing.📚📚📚
As soon as I saw Pilgrim's Progress I was reminded of having to read this at school and how much I hated it 😂 I'm so pleased that children have the most amazing selection of books now. When you were reviewing King Lear, your hair looked like it was in a long bob and it suited you so much 😊 Very interesting project and fab to watch as always x
I am about to read the biography "The Brontës Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family" by Juliet Barker. When I learned that Helen Burns was based on Maria Brontë (en "exact transcript," according to Emily and Branwell Brontë,) I had to learn more about the family. Helen was such an exquisite character, but is so often overlooked in adaptations.
Pilgrims Progress is an amazing book. If you realized that this is the life of any believer you would have said differently. Writing this in prison the author wrote this going through many of this in his life.
I'm not a fan of books and reading in general but i really enjoy your videos, especially when you're into a story or a poem it seem so nice and relaxing. I took English literature at uni as a non-English speaker to hopefully become an English teacher one day. Listening to you read helps me learn more English. Also, perfects my pronunciation.
Great thoughts Ruby. I really love Paradise Lost, such dramatic language. "...with adamantine chains and penal fire, who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms". I like also your Beacon Hill jumper, and what cute braids!
i just found your channel, and i’m so happy i did! i love the amount of context you implement in your videos, every clip feels intentional, especially paired with the lovely nature scenes
Captivating is not exactly the correct descriptive adjective for this video but it’s close. Your discussion of how the Bronte’s writing was influenced by their access of period books was quite revealing and insightful. I’ve only recently finished Wuthering Heights and the comparison you make of King Lear’s temperament is surely reflected in Emily’s character, Heathcliff. Yesterday, I began Villette and hope to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall before the year is over. Thank you, Ruby, for a fine analysis of the effects reading had on the works of the Bronte sisters.
I must have different taste, because I always thought The Pilgrims' Progress was epic. In all fairness though, I did also read a lot of adaptations of it around the same time as well (my mom thought I couldn't understand a lot of the archaic language in the original, and she may have been right, but it's still fairly understandable), so that may have been contributed to how epic it was for me, because of the details the adaptations chose to focus on.
Fantastic video, Ruby! ... You know, I must admit that I've never heard of them before. I mean, until today. And this is a fine chance. I mean I heard of them today, randomly on TV for the first time (Czech version "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" from 2002; it was a question for 10k pounds=300k Czech Crowns, about names of these sisters). And then, you posted a video about them shortly after that. What a fine chance! I was shocked. lol ... I mean, in a good sense. Cheers!
Wow, I love this review of books as context to the writing of the Brontes. Really informative for me to see the connections between the texts. I am no scholar so no appreciation of the connections in literature. Thank you for showing it to me, I think it was so engaging, comprehensive and entertaining. Fabulous job Ruby ❤😊
The Pilgrim's Progress.... xD I remember being excited too, because I also watched the animation film and the story also plays a significant role in Little Women, so I was curious but... it's really boring, I must agree!
Hi Ruby I always find your book related videos so relaxing and interesting and you're definitely the channel I keep coming back to:) Love you and your videos❤
I can't believe you didn't like the pelgrims progress, it was the first book I read as a born again Christian it totally makes sense to me and has been my go to whenever I need assurance in my faith. Combined with Scripture it's an awesome adventure.
@@RubyGranger8 ty they r my favorite of your videos! u inspire me 2 do so much ty so much for being in my life. i have been throughe. good an bad news recently and u inspire me 2 move on . Ruby u r like my best friend even if we dont know eachother , ty so much for being in my life without even knowing it💙❤
As soon as you mentioned the essay on hate I immediately thought of Wuthering Heights. The cuckoo is an amazing bird. They can actually alter the way their eggs look. So if they are laying in a Dunnock's nest their egg will look like a large dunnock egg but if laying in a reed warbler's nest the egg will look like a large warblers egg!
OMG KING LEAR IS MY FAVOURITE! Currently doing it as an alevel English lit text and it is my favourite text that we study. Like the way that you can keep looking at it in so many different ways and explore new ideas within the play and never run out of things to kepe explor8ng an debating because so much is ambiguous and can be looked at in so many different ways more so than other Shakespeare works. The ending has been described by O’toole as “the biggest but in theatrical history” because of the tragedy of corellas death and the idea that it fails to satisfy a moral ending that the subplot gives. Also King Lears “let not women’s weapons stain my manly cheeks”- has been interpreted in different ways, but one of them is by a critic called Rutter who basically says that Lear is “efeminised” and the drama of this line, the imagery and the absurdity shows his fall from power because he is taking up a female voice, while General and Regan adopt the male voice along with the power of the kingdom. It shows the disorder of the kingdom and the social order of a feudal system flipped on its head. Because lear has no power with his words anymore, he has to curse and ramble. It also likely reflects Jacobean ideas towards women and could be seen to be ridiculing that or supporting it depending on how you look at it.
Can you make videos on how to write essays. How do authors manage to deliver certain feelings through their characters? Stuff like that. You sound and look super literature-inclined.
Hello Ruby♥️ I just found your channel and now I’m a subscriber! I really love your videos, I adore your gentle talking and savoir faire😘 definitely gonna binge your channel
@@RubyGranger8 yes I have several times as it was a fairly local trip for me when I was growing up. I last visited about 7 years ago but am planning a whole week in that area in October! I’m sure you would love it and I can see a video in my mind’s eye of you walking among the graves in front of the parsonage.
I read Wuthering Heights in high school not because I had to but I really wanted to. I have read it twice more (I’m 53) and it really is my favorite but I can’t handle it very often because it breaks my heart and makes me cry every time!😢
About the cuckoo, I just remembered the unforgettable and genius novel by Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . I've read it ages ago, in my university days, and was blown away by it. Lately, I was contemplating buying it for my bookshelf... but now I feel like reading King Lear. Thank you, Ruby, for this wonderful vlog.
I noticed you were annotating, maybe you could do a vlog on how you do yours, always interested in how people annotate, I often do this, it’s a great way of interacting with the book. X
Judith Sloman wrote a good book about how children's literature of the time didn't talk about children's emotion or experience, which accounts for the way Jane Eyre is closed off. But like you mention, there's also the influence of fantasy on the children in the novel. The Brontes in Context also has a good chapter on their literary influences, how they read a lot of gothic stories and german novellas which shaped their writing, especially in Wuthering Heights. Children of their class had literary annuals every year for Christmas, which had a lot of illustrations and focused on stories of romance, courtship and female friendship, which would have shaped them from childhood. You can get both these books quite cheaply second hand.
It's interesting because when I was young I saw a play of The Pilgrims Progress and I remember really enjoying it! Though reading the book when I was older I enjoyed it though i wonder if it is because I remembered it from when I was small.
Yes, cuckoos are not kind to our native birds, but as you say it's nature and nature is raw in tooth and claw. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of birds in and around your garden that you're not currently aware of. Definitely the usual, bolder robins blackbirds and blue tits but also finches, wrens, thrushes, corvids, raptors and waterfowl - if there is any water nearby. You'd probably need a RSPB book in order to identify them though if you're not very familiar with birds - and binoculars to see the shy ones. Contemplating picking up King Lear to reread after your passionate review, this was an interesting, insightful video with some depth. Thanks Ruby. X
I think Lockwood's "incoherent threats" are compared to Lear's "I will have such revenges on you both, That all... That all the world shall-I will do such things- What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth!" In both cases, the threats are desperate but completely ineffectual, since neither has the power to wreak any revenge. In Lear's case, the effect is pitiful, in Lockwood's, comic - Emily Bronte's grim humour! Enjoying this video very much!
hello ruby i am from india in punjab i just love how motivate you are i am your biggest fan i saw your every video. dear ruby you are my biggest inspiration in my life. i follow your routines 😅..i have no words for you😍 lots of love from india 😀😌ruby
Hi Ruby, which music/song do you use for your video? They are very relaxing and calm. I want to use your video music as the background sound for studying. 💗
This video came at the perfect moment! I'm just reading Villette by Charlotte Brontë :) I really love all the sisters' work, especially Anne and Charlotte
I just got the book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson -- the book that Helen Burns was reading when she and Jane Eyre first met!
Lola certainly had a lot to say about the books at the beginning 😅
For a moment I thought it was my dog who was howling like that… I legit checked on her and later found out that it was lola all along in the vid 😂
Poor dog.
2 minutes in, and poor Lola is so distracting. I don’t blame creators when there’s background noise, such is life. We have schedules and things happen. But I just want to pet Lola so she doesn’t feel so lonely or distressed he has to wail. Of course Ruby’s family takes good care of her, this is not meant to be disparaging in any way.
@@tiffanyvantine3322 I mean she is a dog, I don't think that is massively abnormal
Always love how calm and cozy your videos are.
Ahh thank you Rhiannon 🥰
We take books so much for granted! Imagine them being brought to our time and seeing e-readers with hundreds, maybe thousands of books in one small device. And many classics even being available for free. They'd probably faint!
So continually inspired by Ruby's unbridled joy and passion for literature. She also has an ease and enthusiasm in teaching the material that I have not witnessed in many. I always learn something new on this channel and happily! Thank you!
I feel like I've learned something after watching your videos.
That is SO lovely to hear! Exactly what I aim for!!
You know Ruby, before I started watching you my interest in classics was quite low, but now that I have watched you for over a year and a half, i know so much! I love books more than ever and I love learning about the Victorian period! This year in our english class we studied an extract of Wuthering Heights and I was so excited, which I don't think I would have in normal circumstances. So I just want to say thank you so much for inspiring me and so many others and keep doing what you're doing!!❤️📚
Just a couple of friendly pronunciation tips - the u in ”cuckoo” is an ”oo” sound (long in American, short in British pronunciation), and the z in Karamazov is not a ”ts” sound but z as in ”zap”.
I grew up on Pilgrim's Progress. I remember the imagery to me seemed very vivid and memorable (scary). My dad read it out loud to us a couple times (which I'm sure helped on interest). I never read it myself. I also know it was more modern English version. We were also of a strict Protestant background, heavy in theology and Church history, so it was not merely fiction to us. And when you hear/read something as a child it leaves strong impressions plus you have nostalgia. Some books just don't hit the same if you read when you are older (this is fluffier obviously, but for example, I feel like I missed the Nancy Drew train, I just don't think I could really appreciate them as an adult as I don't have the nostalgia for them). Also so much of the imagery is used in, for example Little Women. That also reinforced the memory on me.
Lola's howling really adds to this video 💛 so sweet!
Hi Ruby! your enthusiasm for books is contagious!!!! 📖💜
Hello Ruby, haven't checked into your videos in a while and this one immediately drew me in! I'd love to see more "read with me" or video essay type content. Love learning from you and your love for literature. Wishing you well x
I recently visited the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Howarth and it was so interesting seeing the place they wrote and lived! It’s was so exciting and seeing the village they lived in was so lovely too. I recommend 100%
Love your videos Ruby! 💗
I love these type of videos! Please keep this up! I would love to see Margaret Atwood’s favorite books!
one of my favourite videos you've ever made, so comforting to me. would adore a full video about children's literature that you enjoy and the history. i'm taking a module for my degree on british children's literature post-1945 and am so excited :-)
I’m still working my way through the pilgrim’s progress which has been hard- however I recommend CS Lewis’ The Pilgrim’s Regress !! It’s not nearly as dry, especially the further in the book you get.
Ooh this sounds so good! I’ll give it a go!
You seem to quite like birds, so I may suggest to you "How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher" by Simon Barnes. It was the book that helped me go from liking them and their song when I meet them to knowing how to take full enjoyment of birds and nature.
One of the key things he outlines is getting some binoculars and a field guide. I find the RSPB does both well.
Today I was out birdwatching, and I identified Greenfinches for the first time. I also saw Egyptian swans, some Grey herons, and shelduck. Bird watching is an incredibly restorative and nourishing hobby, and I think you would very much enjoy it.
Oh this book sounds excellent! Thank you so much!
And you saw green finches! They look beautiful (though I’ve never seen them in person) xx
Love to watch your video’s about books. Hope you will make more videos such as this. I really love them. Thank you.
Just finished re-reading Wuthering Heights and this pops up, really looking forward to watching the video as I'm getting back into reading a lot lately :)
Ruby you look lovely in that black turtleneck! I enjoyed this video so much, especially your attention to detail (as always)
hello Ruby! I loved the part where you explained the little history behind books dedicated to children in the Victorian Era. I would listen to you narrating any historical topic, really :))! Such a good vlog 🫶🏻🤍
Growing up, we read A Dangerous Journey over and over again. It's an illustrated adaptation of the Pilgrim's Progress. It was so exciting! Full of all the adventurous bits, with fantastic illustrations.
My son loved A Dangerous Journey!
I love reading poetry in the wintry air too! Several days ago I read a few pages of Prometheus Unbound outside and that was wonderful.
When I watch your videos I miss studying literature sometimes. I've made the right decision to switch majors but that doesn't mean I didn't love my first two semesters. This gives me the same excitement :)
Your brain is an inspiration lol. Going to work through my bookshelf now. I've been stuck on Purgatorio for a while now after reading all of Lovecraft's works and half of Poe.
Those books look really interesting!! Motivating to try and read different writing 🙃
Absolutely! I’d recommend you trying something like this!
I love your love for knowledge- thank you for making videos that are full of knowledge and excitement for it! So interesting to see what the Brontë sisters read 😊
Many years ago, I asked for Pilgrim’s Progress for my eleventh birthday because of how heavily it featured in Little Women……have tried to read it countless times over the years ….glad to know I am not alone in my struggles!
Ruby,I love this kind of your videos! This stuff gives me so much! Thank youuu...
What a fabulous video! You cover so much ground with such depth and passion and your readings are wonderful. I love to read outdoors too, lately always with a warm drink clasped in my mitts :) Thanks so much for the continuing inspiration Ruby ❤
Loved this video, the Brontes books were the ones the got me into reading classic literature and my favourite book out of them all definitely has to be Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I recently bought The Tales of Angria by Charlotte Bronte and its based around a world that her and her brother Branwell created when they were young and I haven't read it yet but I thought I would mention this book as I feel like people don't really mention this one and there a lot of people who haven't heard of it . I really enjoy watching your videos because they are so unique to what anybody else on this platform is doing.📚📚📚
As soon as I saw Pilgrim's Progress I was reminded of having to read this at school and how much I hated it 😂 I'm so pleased that children have the most amazing selection of books now.
When you were reviewing King Lear, your hair looked like it was in a long bob and it suited you so much 😊
Very interesting project and fab to watch as always x
I so wish you had been my English teacher growing up lol I just love how passionate and knowledgeable you are about books/plays 😊 xx
Such a good video ! Thank you Ruby 🙏
Obsessed with your Wuthering Heights sweatshirt, Ruby! 😍😍😍😍
What a lovely idea for a project. Really interesting video! :)
I am about to read the biography "The Brontës Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family" by Juliet Barker.
When I learned that Helen Burns was based on Maria Brontë (en "exact transcript," according to Emily and Branwell Brontë,) I had to learn more about the family. Helen was such an exquisite character, but is so often overlooked in adaptations.
Pilgrims Progress is an amazing book. If you realized that this is the life of any believer you would have said differently. Writing this in prison the author wrote this going through many of this in his life.
I'm not a fan of books and reading in general but i really enjoy your videos, especially when you're into a story or a poem it seem so nice and relaxing. I took English literature at uni as a non-English speaker to hopefully become an English teacher one day. Listening to you read helps me learn more English. Also, perfects my pronunciation.
wait like i’m obsessed with this
Great thoughts Ruby. I really love Paradise Lost, such dramatic language. "...with adamantine chains and penal fire, who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms". I like also your Beacon Hill jumper, and what cute braids!
I really enjoy these types of video's. Your description of these books make me curious, and I want to read them. Thanks.
I’m so pleased you liked it!
i just found your channel, and i’m so happy i did! i love the amount of context you implement in your videos, every clip feels intentional, especially paired with the lovely nature scenes
J'adore vos vidéos, elles sont toujours très instructives, transmettent une bonne énergie.
How fun! My friend is reading one of the books Charlotte Brontë wrote right now for her University class 😊
Captivating is not exactly the correct descriptive adjective for this video but it’s close. Your discussion of how the Bronte’s writing was influenced by their access of period books was quite revealing and insightful. I’ve only recently finished Wuthering Heights and the comparison you make of King Lear’s temperament is surely reflected in Emily’s character, Heathcliff. Yesterday, I began Villette and hope to read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall before the year is over. Thank you, Ruby, for a fine analysis of the effects reading had on the works of the Bronte sisters.
I must have different taste, because I always thought The Pilgrims' Progress was epic. In all fairness though, I did also read a lot of adaptations of it around the same time as well (my mom thought I couldn't understand a lot of the archaic language in the original, and she may have been right, but it's still fairly understandable), so that may have been contributed to how epic it was for me, because of the details the adaptations chose to focus on.
Ruby, i love the idea of the video. If you can make a series like this, it will pleasing actually.
This is a great idea for all of our favorite authors.
Fantastic video, Ruby! ... You know, I must admit that I've never heard of them before. I mean, until today. And this is a fine chance. I mean I heard of them today, randomly on TV for the first time (Czech version "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" from 2002; it was a question for 10k pounds=300k Czech Crowns, about names of these sisters). And then, you posted a video about them shortly after that. What a fine chance! I was shocked. lol ... I mean, in a good sense. Cheers!
i always love your dog in the background 🫶🫶🫶
Wow, I love this review of books as context to the writing of the Brontes. Really informative for me to see the connections between the texts. I am no scholar so no appreciation of the connections in literature. Thank you for showing it to me, I think it was so engaging, comprehensive and entertaining. Fabulous job Ruby ❤😊
this video is really interesting! learned some new things, the format is incredible!
yuup I agree on reading poetry in the cold it is a thing :)
Babe wake up, Ruby just posted a reading vlog
Hi ruby, you inspire me a lot ❤ lots of love from India 😊
Ah Karen! Thank you so much 🥰
As a Christian Pilgrim's Progress is one of my all-time favs. lol
Eek I’m sorry 🙊💛
@@RubyGranger8 Is a book made by a Christian for Christians so I understand😊. Keep up the good work! 🙌🙌
I was going to say the same thing 😂 God bless you Astrum!
@@RubyGranger8 I wonder if you'd enjoy The pilgrim's regress by C. S. Lewis, more 😅
The Pilgrim's Progress.... xD
I remember being excited too, because I also watched the animation film and the story also plays a significant role in Little Women, so I was curious but... it's really boring, I must agree!
Hi Ruby I always find your book related videos so relaxing and interesting and you're definitely the channel I keep coming back to:) Love you and your videos❤
As someone who loved reading wuthering heights, I gotta say that I love your shirt
I can't believe you didn't like the pelgrims progress, it was the first book I read as a born again Christian it totally makes sense to me and has been my go to whenever I need assurance in my faith. Combined with Scripture it's an awesome adventure.
i love your videos sooo much, you inspire me everyday and motivate me to read and learn! and i just want to say that you are so so beautiful
PLEASE DO A BOOKSHELF TOUR PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FOR 2023 PLEASEEEEEEEEEE
I will have to!
@@RubyGranger8 ty they r my favorite of your videos! u inspire me 2 do so much ty so much for being in my life. i have been throughe. good an bad news recently and u inspire me 2 move on . Ruby u r like my best friend even if we dont know eachother , ty so much for being in my life without even knowing it💙❤
I second this!! I love bookshelf tour videos
@@sweetestaphrodite ty nora! nice to know im not the only one who thinks this should be a reality
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I loved this vlog! Please do one on Jane Austen?! ☺️
'Hound of the Baskervilles' sounds like the perfect read....
Your videos >>>>
Your UA-cam channel >>>>
The topic of my Master's Thesis is the novel Jane Eyre and I really appreciate your video. 🥰
Nice reading advice. Have a wonderful week!
As in English literature graduate my final research was withering high . After that I fall in love with bronsister
As soon as you mentioned the essay on hate I immediately thought of Wuthering Heights. The cuckoo is an amazing bird. They can actually alter the way their eggs look. So if they are laying in a Dunnock's nest their egg will look like a large dunnock egg but if laying in a reed warbler's nest the egg will look like a large warblers egg!
OMG KING LEAR IS MY FAVOURITE! Currently doing it as an alevel English lit text and it is my favourite text that we study. Like the way that you can keep looking at it in so many different ways and explore new ideas within the play and never run out of things to kepe explor8ng an debating because so much is ambiguous and can be looked at in so many different ways more so than other Shakespeare works.
The ending has been described by O’toole as “the biggest but in theatrical history” because of the tragedy of corellas death and the idea that it fails to satisfy a moral ending that the subplot gives.
Also King Lears “let not women’s weapons stain my manly cheeks”- has been interpreted in different ways, but one of them is by a critic called Rutter who basically says that Lear is “efeminised” and the drama of this line, the imagery and the absurdity shows his fall from power because he is taking up a female voice, while General and Regan adopt the male voice along with the power of the kingdom. It shows the disorder of the kingdom and the social order of a feudal system flipped on its head. Because lear has no power with his words anymore, he has to curse and ramble. It also likely reflects Jacobean ideas towards women and could be seen to be ridiculing that or supporting it depending on how you look at it.
Can you make videos on how to write essays. How do authors manage to deliver certain feelings through their characters? Stuff like that. You sound and look super literature-inclined.
Hey ruby I just wanted to let you know that I love you so much and u motivate me soo much 💖💖💖💖
Ah Farah! You’re too lovely!
Your pooch howling in the back🤣 bless her. Loved this vid!
I feel so sorry for Lola. At least before she had Margo for company..
Hello Ruby♥️ I just found your channel and now I’m a subscriber! I really love your videos, I adore your gentle talking and savoir faire😘 definitely gonna binge your channel
Ah Cassandra! Thank you so much ♥️
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It makes me feel reassured that the ancient Greek references go over your head sometimes too! I always feel so lost haha
Maybe you could do a visit to Haworth Parsonage ? It’s a lovely place - very atmospheric especially if you walk out on the moors to Top Withens.
I really want to some day! Have you ever been? xx
@@RubyGranger8 yes I have several times as it was a fairly local trip for me when I was growing up. I last visited about 7 years ago but am planning a whole week in that area in October! I’m sure you would love it and I can see a video in my mind’s eye of you walking among the graves in front of the parsonage.
I read Wuthering Heights in high school not because I had to but I really wanted to. I have read it twice more (I’m 53) and it really is my favorite but I can’t handle it very often because it breaks my heart and makes me cry every time!😢
About the cuckoo, I just remembered the unforgettable and genius novel by Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . I've read it ages ago, in my university days, and was blown away by it. Lately, I was contemplating buying it for my bookshelf... but now I feel like reading King Lear. Thank you, Ruby, for this wonderful vlog.
I noticed you were annotating, maybe you could do a vlog on how you do yours, always interested in how people annotate, I often do this, it’s a great way of interacting with the book. X
I love how well research this video is! It shows how much effort and time you must put in so thank you, such an enjoyable watch.
Ruby, I sobbed at the end of King Lear. X
It is HEART BREAKING
Judith Sloman wrote a good book about how children's literature of the time didn't talk about children's emotion or experience, which accounts for the way Jane Eyre is closed off. But like you mention, there's also the influence of fantasy on the children in the novel. The Brontes in Context also has a good chapter on their literary influences, how they read a lot of gothic stories and german novellas which shaped their writing, especially in Wuthering Heights. Children of their class had literary annuals every year for Christmas, which had a lot of illustrations and focused on stories of romance, courtship and female friendship, which would have shaped them from childhood. You can get both these books quite cheaply second hand.
Where’s you wuthering heights sweater from?!?😍 it’s so cute!
It's interesting because when I was young I saw a play of The Pilgrims Progress and I remember really enjoying it! Though reading the book when I was older I enjoyed it though i wonder if it is because I remembered it from when I was small.
Yes, cuckoos are not kind to our native birds, but as you say it's nature and nature is raw in tooth and claw. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of birds in and around your garden that you're not currently aware of. Definitely the usual, bolder robins blackbirds and blue tits but also finches, wrens, thrushes, corvids, raptors and waterfowl - if there is any water nearby. You'd probably need a RSPB book in order to identify them though if you're not very familiar with birds - and binoculars to see the shy ones.
Contemplating picking up King Lear to reread after your passionate review, this was an interesting, insightful video with some depth. Thanks Ruby. X
Interesting concept ❤
I think Lockwood's "incoherent threats" are compared to Lear's
"I will have such revenges on you both, That all...
That all the world shall-I will do such things-
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!"
In both cases, the threats are desperate but completely ineffectual, since neither has the power to wreak any revenge. In Lear's case, the effect is pitiful, in Lockwood's, comic - Emily Bronte's grim humour!
Enjoying this video very much!
Hey Ruby, have you ever read a book by W. Somerset Maughan? I like his books and I was wondering what you think about his writing.
hello ruby i am from india in punjab
i just love how motivate you are i am your biggest fan i saw your every video. dear ruby you are my biggest inspiration in my life. i follow your routines 😅..i have no words for you😍
lots of love from india 😀😌ruby
Hi Ruby, which music/song do you use for your video? They are very relaxing and calm. I want to use your video music as the background sound for studying. 💗
We will always support you no matter what. Just know that you'll eventually be more successful along the way.
This video came at the perfect moment! I'm just reading Villette by Charlotte Brontë :) I really love all the sisters' work, especially Anne and Charlotte
I think Cordelia is waiting for you to write her play.
When pilgrims progress is one of your faves 🤓🤓
I am reading Jane Eyre for a university class and I have to say it’s one book you can’t read through a modern lense I keep having to catch myself.
I feel a completely new vibe with the video and I love it, especially you being seemingly more confident about talking about you being a feminist.
I am pretty sure Louisa May Alcott mentions A pilgrams progress in her book Little Women
Ruby is so cute !!
I just got the book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson -- the book that Helen Burns was reading when she and Jane Eyre first met!
Would love to see your take on Dostoevsky's work.