Lady MacBeth's insanity

             Lady Macbeth's insanity is the cause of one of the many themes of wasted power and violence in the play Macbeth. Her character proved to have the second most changing personality throughout the play. Lady Macbeth has dealt with many stressful circumstances to cause her to go off the deep end, and the effects of these circumstances are everlasting.
             It is after the death of Duncan that most repercussions affect Lady Macbeth. Lady M. uses her powers of persuasion in order to convince her husband to kill King Duncan. She believes that by this risky action she will be protected by Macbeth's newly found power. Her part in his death left her with the pressures of a guilty conscience, which eventually contribute to her insanity. Lady Macbeth then supports her husband in the killing of his own friend. Even though she is mostly weak; at times she provides Macbeth himself with the power that he must obtain in order to succeed.
             Macbeth also takes a great part in his wife's insanity. His power becomes another source of his wife's weakness. Macbeth begins to alienate his wife when he comes into power. Like most, tyrannical men in power, he forgot about one of the most important people in his life. Obsessed with himself, he wasn't there to save his wife from himself. She also needed saving from herself. Her overall weakness in mind can also be blamed for her rise and fall. In the beginning of the play she asks, "...unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full/ Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;.../ 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). 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. She hungers for the power she feels that her husband doesn't have in order to
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