Through the language Shakespeare uses in Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene, he makes it clear Lady Macbeth suffers from extreme guilt about what she has done. When she talks to herself in her sleep Lady Macbeth speaks with a euphony. She says, “The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” (V.i.38-39) The soft sounds of the euphony are at contrast with the disturbing things Lady Macbeth is saying. The words themselves sound nice and soft, but the meaning behind them is cruel and vicious. At the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth appears to be the perfect lady and wife while a hiding her dark side, just like the words she says. Shakespeare uses a synecdoche when Lady Macbeth says: “[a]ll the perfumes