The Scottish Play

Ye all may have heareth of the Scottish Play, that which is known as Macbeth,
A cursed name so full of evil, but good in it, all the same,
A play, a lesson and a message,
All brought together in one,
Macbeth is the play that us Leaving Certs are studying,
And with haste, be it done.

Yada, yada, yada. For anyone living outside of Ireland, us teenagers have to sit at least seven exams for what we call the Leaving Certificate, or the Leaving for short. And of course, in English, my favourite subject, or at least one of, we have this long, arduous course to get through, full of indecipherable Shakespearean language, daunting symbolistic poetry, a novel that is bound to be as boring as watching paint dry...

We started off on that, which is probably the most hated out of all that is in the course..... The Shakespearean Drama. Ours? Macbeth, or "Macbeth" as we must refer to it, when speaking about the play's name.

I expected it to be dull, rendering me half-asleep every time we opened the book to try and nudge our way through the almost hieroglyphic language that is Shakespeare.

Call me pleasantly surprised when it wasn't like that at all! I love reading "Macbeth", well maybe love is a bit strong, but a lot more than I could have hoped!! It's a nice play to be studying, full of mysticism and intriguing supernatural powers that are in play, but mainly it is reading into the play and its meaning that gets me every time.

English, is just one of those subjects that just keeps on exciting me day after day.

Hope you are all well, and settling back into school!

I also have to say how envious I am of the college students! D: Arrrggh, begone with you all and your freedom!!

Arma.