Similarities Between Macbeth And To Kill A Mockingbird

Inside William Shakespeare's, Macbeth and Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird there are several examples of power and corruption. The actions of characters from both the book and the play are influenced by something besides themselves. Both texts convey the message that when one becomes corrupted by power, that power is not sustainable. Inside the story of Macbeth, Macbeth sends his men to MacDuff's castle to murder MacDuff’s wife and children. This is done because Macbeth is told by the first apparition, an armoured head, “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware MacDuff, Beware the thane of Fife. Let me go. Enough.”(VI,i,77-79). This can be related to Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, when Bob Ewell attempts to kill Atticus Finch’s children,