Lady MacBeth's insanity

Obsessed with himself, he wasn’t there to save his wife from himself. Her mind becomes weak, and in time when the mind goes, the body goes also. / Come thick night,/ And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,/ That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,” ( Act I, v, 43-54). His power becomes another source of his wife’s weakness. Macbeth begins to alienate his wife when he comes into power.

Lady Macbeth’s character is one that continuously changes throughout Macbeth. Her constant sleepwalking is one effect of her insanity. Her lust for power corrupts and overcomes her mind and in turn costs Lady M. “Out, damned spot! Out I say! One: Two: why, then 't time to do't. 34-39) At this point her insanity is obvious when she confesses her guilt. Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him. By asking for these qualities she becomes more cold-blooded and sheds away her womanly qualities so she wouldn’t be able to feel any remorse for Duncan’s murder. unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top full/ Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;.