In many pieces of literature the characters change over the course of the story. This is shown in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In the play Lady Macbeth changes into a completely different personality. At first she is a power-hungry woman that is very masculine in the way that she acts. She starts to change after Macbeth becomes king. Towards the end she changes to the point where she is stressed out about everything that she has done. In Macbeth Lady Macbeth changes from a selfish person to someone who knows she has done wrong. In the beginning of Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a controlling person. She is willing to do anything to have power over people. This is shown when in Act I when she tells Macbeth that the witches must be right, and they
