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"Accordingly, we could just as well call the world embodied music as embodied will; this is the reason why music makes every picture, indeed every scene from real life and from the world, at once appear in enhanced significance, and this is, of course, all the greater, the more analogous its melody is to the inner spirit of the phenomenon."
This is a video of the last scene of an animated series called Tokyo Ghoul Root A. The scene itself portrays a young man walking with an injured person in his arm during the aftermath of what seems like a battle. As a viewer, I gain a sense of sadness observing all the grief expressed by individual characters. This sadness is merely out of sympathy for their loss, with which I have no direct connection with. However, as I watched while listening to the song playing in the background, I began to understand what it was that the characters were feeling. As Schopenhauer claimed, the music embodied the will of the characters and communicated that to me in a language that is universal to all. This also gives some explanation to why people always relate their life through songs, as if the music is a representation of their life. It's not that music narrates their life, it's because music brings forth the will, the deeper meaning, of their life, and manifest that in a comprehensible form of communication.
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