Further evidence of the lecherous nature of Lancelot and Guinevere's relationship is found in the story of the abduction of the queen by the villainous Meliagrance. After Lancelot's valiant rescue of the queen, he visits her private chambers during the night at Meliagrance's castle. After removing iron bars from the window to her chamber to gain entry, Lancelot and the queen spend the night together in sweet delight:
So, to passe upon thys tale, sir Lancelot wente to bedde with the quene and toke no force of hys hurte honde, but toke hys plesaince and hys lykynge untyll hit was dawning of the day; for wyte you well he slept nat, but wacched. (Malory, 657)
Although Malory purposely uses opaque language to presumably protect the reputation of the queen, this attempt is undermined by Lancelot's earlier confession to the hermit concerning his lecherous desires for the queen.
Additional problematic elements of Lancelot and Guinevere's love are its obsessive and controlling elements. This is beautifully illustrated in The Tale of Lancelot and Elaine when Dame Elaine, the mother of Lancelot's son Galahad, visits the Arthurian court. Guinevere's obsession with Lancelot is revealed in her desperate attempts to keep Lancelot from lying with Dame Elaine during the night. The calculating queen makes arrangements for Lancelot to come to her private chambers one night, undoubtedly a questionable and scandalous act for a married woman during the Middle Ages. (Malory, 486) The dark side of Guineneve's obsessive passion for her lover is revealed when Lancelot is led unwittingly to Elaine's bed. Because Lancelot unintentionally breaks his promise to meet with the queen, Guinevere's obsession turns into rage:
Then the queen was nigh out of her wit, and she writhed and welted as a mad woman, and might not sleep a four and five hours. (Malory, 487)
The queen's unbridled obsession with Lancelot is only surpassed by her great rage. Twisting and turning her body, as if in great physical pain, she behaves as one with a serious mental disorder. In her blind rage, Guinevere banishes her lover from the court:
A, thou false traytoure knyght! Loke thou never abyde in my coute, and lyghtly that thou voyde my chambir! And nat so hardy, thou false traytoure knyght, that evermoure thou com in my syght..And therewyth he toke suche an hartely sorow at her wordys that he felle dowene to the floure in a sowne...And whan sir awooke oute of hys swohe, he lepte oute at a bay-wyndow into a garden...and so he ranne furth he knew nat whothir, and was as wylde [wood] as ever was man. (Malory, 487)
Guinevere's wrath is consistent with her obsessive behavior. She seeks to destroy Lancelot personally and professionally for the betrayal she believes she has suffered. Interestingly, she only succeeds in hurting Lancelot personally. Slipping into the murky depths self referential existence, the valiant knight goes mad for two years.