• “Screw your courage to the sticking place”.

Courage: To be brave enough to do something that may frighten or scare them.

It is said that the ‘literal meaning’ of the quote above means that Macbeth needs courage.

However, I think it means that Macbeth needs to keep his courage in him, by ‘sticking into place’. In addition the ‘screw’ means that he needs to bolt it in by ‘screwing’ it into him.

Others have also said that it also mean not to back down, which I also agree with.

A little bit of acting about how Macbeth doesn’t want to kill King Duncan and some students in the class try to say the quite how they think it was or should be said. Many people thought about angers when saying the line.

In a way the queen is insulting or teasing him by, in a way, he does not have courage.

I think she is trying to make him fell ashamed. She is saying that he is mentally weak as he has a lordship, which is of very high status, but he is not acting like it by not being brave and killing the King. I think she is trying to provoke him into killing the King.