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The books I had to read for my Grade 12 English class + MY THOUGHTS ON 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'

Author's Note
Hey guys, this post will be posted sometime within January/Febuary of 2022 but parts of this post I'd initially started writing as far back as August 2020. Amist both my Matric year(arguably my most stressful schooling year I've had thus far) and amist the shifting lockdown restrictions happening in the world and the ever increasing number of Covid-19 cases - and witnessing friends and relatives of mine falling ill (and eventually me included).
When I first started writing this post I wasn't sure whether or not it would ever get posted, there was even a time during 2021 when I decided to go completely off the grid - nearly deleted this blog as well... but something stopped me... thinking about this blog and just how cathartic these posts are for me, I guess that stopped me (ofcourse now I'm back on most social media again). I'm not saying any of this for you to pity me, I'm merely saying this for you to get a glimpse into my thought process.


So I'm in matric this year, yay!!🙃 (this has felt super weird for me to be honest). 
On a slightly different note; I haven't been reading that much since the school year kicked off for me. I did a lot of reading during March-May. But every month since then I haven't gotten the chance to read that often.

What I am going to be talking about today is my general thoughts on two books that I was unfortunately forced to read for school -plus the my thoughts on one of A24's most recent films The Tragedy of Macbeth. The books being, 'The Ife of Pi' by Yann Martel & 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller(by all technicalities The Crucible is a play but lets classify it as a book today;)
So without dragging this out any longer than it lets just jump straight into the discussion. In my opinion, these two books were really intriguing to read side by side, they both deal with characters struggling with faith and themes of insanity amist adversity. Same applies for Macbeth.

The more I think of it I quite liked The Crucible in a different way than that of the Life of Pi. I quite liked the compare and contrast of certain elements and themes you could draw between the two, despite their major plot differences, for example, the instance of Pi losing his sense of morality at sea and giving up his vegetarian diet by eating Fish is similar to that of the townsfolk of Salem in 'the Crucible' who lost their sense of morality and sanity when they exposed their own eagerness to rationalize the exilation of many of the young (mostly female) members of their community because of the fact that witchcraft was merely rumored to have been used.

All this being said- I quite liked all of these books. They were really good even though they came off contrived at times. 
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