Shah Obaidul Mustafa

The next year, we were to be studying another of Shakespeare’s plays: ‘Macbeth’. We were given the book list at the end of the previous year. I was delighted, I had come to thoroughly enjoy Shakespeare, and by the first day of the new term, I had already finished reading the play at my own leisure. Our English teacher that year was not the same, and I was rather glad. It was a female teacher, Mrs Strydom, and I felt more comfortable with her from the start than I had with Mr Kruger.

Now that you know everything that is to it when talking about rain and literature, I think it is important to talk more about the why. So when it comes to bad weather in literature, water is the keyword here. As I am sure you have noticed, they don't call Earth the Blue Planet for nothing (nice wordplay there, if I can say so myself). As time goes by, water bites land away, which makes the flood one of humanity's greatest fears.