| SilverLynx |
Sane doesn't mean good and I think a lot of reviewers are rebelling against evil acts performed by a sane person.
Most evil characters are not insane by any means. This is a character who woke up one day and realized that all the inner freedoms permitted by simply being crazy were gone.
Now she thinks things through, and can't just act out like a wild creature. That doesn't denote a conscience, but it does denote an inner questioning of acts that make no sense.
Now one could respond one of two ways to this: Deside that everything they knew in life was wrong and try to go in a new direction...or attempt to 'fix' what has clearly been 'broken'. This is like a raging alcoholic suddenly becoming sober...and unable to get drunk!
She's acting out of pure desperation to get back to her simple life of pure insanity and she's willing to do anything to do it. She's not being crazy in her acts - she's trying to find a way to drain off the sanity she's been granted. This is someone who is thinking things through in a methodical and intelligent fashion.
If this was the reverse - an insane persone trying to recover their sanity, they would be 100% ineffectual because their methods would not be thought out.