During year 10, I had the wonderful opportunity to read some texts, including plays, poems and books. These readings included two very interesting novels/plays, “The Help” and “Macbeth,” each with different plots, but many similar characters. Within the novel “The Help” there were Aibileen, Minny, Skeeter, Hilly Holbrook and various other characters. From Macbeth the most significant characters for the plot and journey were Banquo, Macbeth himself, Macduff and Lady Macbeth. Each of these characters had very long and eventful journeys experienced within the texts, but the two journeys that stood out the most in both of these books, and which seemed to be the most relevant to each other, are were those of the lady. Hilly Holbrook and Lady Macbeth. These two powerful women played what I thought were very significant roles in their respective dramatic worlds, being so immersed in their own worlds of mischief, that they forgot the bigger picture and almost never realized who they were wronging. The journey undertaken by Hilly Holbrook throughout "The Help" was rather boring, but eventful. From "Bridge Club" meetings at Mrs. Leefolts' home, to banquets and dinners, Mrs. Holbrook seemed to always be around, trying to make the already difficult lives of black people much more difficult than they already were. From the beginning of the book, the reader had an immediate sense that Hilly was a racist, especially because on the eighth page of the book she stated that she believed, and I quote, that “they (black people) carry different kinds of diseases.” of us (the whites)." (The Help, page 8). He believed that by passing a law that would make it mandatory for people of color to have a separate bathroom... middle of paper... he realized that what she was doing was wrong, and that her actions were not only affecting her, but those around her, as well as the victims of her sins and those around them. Evidence of this is clearly shown when we receive the sad news in the scene 5 of Act 5 that Lady Macbeth had committed suicide. She could not live with herself knowing what she had done and therefore ended her life of her own accord, from beginning to end she never understood that what she was doing was a bad example to her family and a horrible influence on those around her. She never realized that she was hurting other people, and even if she did she would never stop doing what she did was doing. At no point in the book do we see Hilly treat someone of a different race, or someone of her own race, as someone who is on her own “level.””..