In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is ruthless, ambitious and full of schemes. She plans the king's murder, she is able to put on a happy face when the king is in her home, even though she knows that he will be murdered that very night. Lady Macbeth has no conscience in the beginning of the play. She is capable of killing without remorse. The only evidence in the early part of the play that Lady Macbeth has any sensitivity or feelings is when she admits that she could not plunge the dagger into King Duncan's chest because while he slept, he looked like her father.
In Act V, Lady Macbeth becomes a victim of her conscience, which suddenly can no longer compartmentalize her actions. Therefore all justification for the murders that have been committed is gone and she is left with the raw reality that she has unleashed an evil force into the world, and now it consumes her.
In the end of the play, Lady Macbeth is ravaged with hallucinations that wash over her with waves of mental anguish, reminding her of how many lives have been lost.
She has put herself outside of the sensibilities of life, law, morality and order. Although she gains something from her deeds, she gives up far more. She is lost in an endless nightmare, unable to sleep. Tormented and unable to free herself. Its like she's locked in the scary fun house and can't get out.
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