Macbeth and An Inspector Calls were plays written in different time periods. The central female character in An Inspector Calls is Sheila and the central female character in Macbeth is Lady Macbeth. Sheila Birling comes from a well-known and wealthy factory owner and Lady Macbeth is the wife of a thane, named Macbeth. Both plays show a certainty of evil, but the central female characters of Macbeth and An Inspector Calls differ but are rarely shown as similar. At the beginning of Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 5, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a power-hungry person. “Sex me here and fill me from head to toe with the most atrocious cruelty.” By focusing on the word "unsex", we can deduce from the context how she is calling for evil to take away all her femininity and make her a cruel queen. We can also see that Lady Macbeth is a personification of evil power as she seeks power. I find this interesting because his aggressiveness in removing his feminine behavior is seen by the fact that he asks the evil spirits. Also, the way he seeks evil is interesting because, linking to another piece of evidence in the same scene, he says, “And take my milk for gall.” Focusing on the word "gall", we can see how she wants to have very bold behavior when she is crowned. At the beginning of An Inspector Calls in Act 1, Priestley introduces Sheila as an energetic person, "(interrupting) Why should you? He's done with you. He says he's one of us now." By analyzing the words "we now", we can see how Sheila talks about responsibility, however, by looking at the captions we can see how Sheila changes her character from being questionable to targeting her father and saying, "He's done with you." I find this interesting because...... middle of the paper...... t busy. I find this interesting because at the beginning of the play Sheila didn't like Gerald as much as she does now because Gerald never saw her during the summer holidays. It's also interesting how their relationship develops over the course of the show. To conclude, the difference between Sheila and Lady Macbeth is that Sheila accepts her guilt while Lady Macbeth tends to place the blame on innocent lives. What is similar about the central female characters of An Inspector Calls and Macbeth is that they are both perceptive, but Sheila's perception is not as evil as Lady Macbeth's, where she tends to insult Macbeth quite often. Overall I found Lady Macbeth more interesting than Sheila because I like the way Lady Macbeth remembers her past while walking in her sleep and Macbeth hallucinating King Duncan's blood which he was responsible for.