Although Lady Macbeth puts up a strong facade of being the “one with the pants” in the relationship, she slowly loses power over Macbeth after he becomes corrupt with the prophesized power. The main effect of Lady Macbeth’s ultimate decision to kill herself at the end of the text was the guilt felt after killing innocent people for Macbeth’s desire for power. Two scenes before Lady Macbeth decides to kill herself, she is discovered by a gentlewoman, who later recruits a doctor to watch, sleepwalking, and talking to herself. She is repeatedly figuratively washing her hands for no apparent reason, although she mumbles “Look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave” as she tries to scape off imaginary