The common suggestion made between To Kill a Mockingbird and Macbeth is that power can make people do things they don’t want to do. Whether it is trying to get it or if you already have it, using it unfairly against somebody, power can overwhelm you and change your thinking. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella and her Father, Bob Ewell, get vicious and harmful since they have power over Tom Robinson. For example, when Tom Robinson is helping Mayella out around her house, and Mayella starts getting a little too physical for Bob’s liking, he decides to bring Tom to court because he had more power than him and he believes he can get Tom arrested. This eventually leads to Tom’s death in prison. Also, when Atticus is trying to defend Tom, Bob wants to be able to keep some of his power in the town, because if Tom got found not guilty in his appeal Bob would lose a lot of his credibility, and he just wanted to get back at…show more content… These two pieces of evidence in To Kill a Mockingbird show how when someone gets hungry to keep their power or they get too confident with their power they already have, they can do things they did not plan on doing before. If Bob was black and did not have any power, he would not have been able to or wanted to get into the conflict with Jem or bring Tom to court. In Macbeth, Macbeth is persuaded to carry out plans that he did not want to do, but he did because his wife and him were power hungry. Originally, Lady Macbeth was trying to get Macbeth to kill Duncan so Macbeth would be able to get the throne, but Macbeth did not want to kill Duncan (who was not only his king but his friends as well). However, as time went on, Macbeth was getting more and more interested in his wife’s evil plan, because getting the throne was sounding better and better everyday. Eventually, he cracked, and went into Duncan’s room at night and killed him and blamed it on the
