Lady Macbeth, in Act 1, scene 7.
It's Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is weakening in his resolve to kill Duncan, but she'll have none of it. Macbeth asks her what happens if they fail. She answers, "We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail." Not a change to this information, but an interesting side note. This phrase enjoyed a brief resurgence in use during the run of the longest running off-Broadway show, The Fantastiks wherein it was a key element in Henry's soliloquy. wait a minute gaston also says it here light your torch mount your horse screw your courage to the sticking place were counting on gaston to lead the wayyy through a mist through a wood where within a haunted castle lies somethin you dont see everyday
He is confident that he will not loose the kingdom to malcolm because the witches have said that he won't be defeated until the wood's move towards him and he can't be killed by anyone except a man not born of woman. (Macduff).
Macbeth's castle
In Act 1 Scene 7 Lines 35-45 and 47-59, Lady Macbeth goads her reluctant husband to kill their king. At the beginning of her speech, she compares his unreliability as an assassin to inconstancy in love. Thus, at lines 35-39, she chides, 'Was the hope drunk/wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?/And wakes it now to look so green and pale/At what it did so freely? From ths time/Such I account thy love.' In reality, Lady Macbeth's first husband had carried out King Duncan I's orders to have Macbeth's father killed, in 1020. With Gille Coemgairn's death in 1032, his wife married Macbeth and thereby became Lady Macbeth. In 1040, King Duncan I invaded Macbeth's lands. During the ensuing battle, he was killed on August 14, 1040 by his own men under Macbeth's leadership.
Scone is not a person at all, it's the place where Macbeth is crowned king.
It's Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is weakening in his resolve to kill Duncan, but she'll have none of it. Macbeth asks her what happens if they fail. She answers, "We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail." Not a change to this information, but an interesting side note. This phrase enjoyed a brief resurgence in use during the run of the longest running off-Broadway show, The Fantastiks wherein it was a key element in Henry's soliloquy. wait a minute gaston also says it here light your torch mount your horse screw your courage to the sticking place were counting on gaston to lead the wayyy through a mist through a wood where within a haunted castle lies somethin you dont see everyday
He doesn't. The closest he comes is the vague "If we should fail . . ." but he never gets to explore what would happen because his wife cuts him off by saying "But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail."
She says: Think of this, good peers, But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. She is trying to laugh off his insane behaviour. Totally unsuccessfully, I might add. She says, "What, scream and yell at things that are not there? Oh, don't worry about that, he does that all the time." Yeah, right.
In the spectacular Act 1 Scene 7 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth first breaks down Macbeth's determination not to proceed with the murder by attacking his masculinity, by suggesting that he is less than a man, and that she is more of a man than she is. She then builds up his confidence that they can get away with the murder by reaffirming that it will be easy and that it cannot fail, as long as they screw their courage to the sticking place.
Well it was used by Gaston during "The Mob Song" in Beauty and the Beast!
He is confident that he will not loose the kingdom to malcolm because the witches have said that he won't be defeated until the wood's move towards him and he can't be killed by anyone except a man not born of woman. (Macduff).
"When you durst do it, then you were a man." Most of Lady Macbeth's argument is made up of associating the commitment of the murder with his virility and manhood. She implies that he is only sexually attractive to her if he commits the murder. Once he starts to waver, she brings in the second arm of her argument: "But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail" Her second argument is that audacity will certainly succeed.
Macbeth's castle
In Act 1 Scene 7 Lines 35-45 and 47-59, Lady Macbeth goads her reluctant husband to kill their king. At the beginning of her speech, she compares his unreliability as an assassin to inconstancy in love. Thus, at lines 35-39, she chides, 'Was the hope drunk/wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?/And wakes it now to look so green and pale/At what it did so freely? From ths time/Such I account thy love.' In reality, Lady Macbeth's first husband had carried out King Duncan I's orders to have Macbeth's father killed, in 1020. With Gille Coemgairn's death in 1032, his wife married Macbeth and thereby became Lady Macbeth. In 1040, King Duncan I invaded Macbeth's lands. During the ensuing battle, he was killed on August 14, 1040 by his own men under Macbeth's leadership.
The crowning ceremony in Macbeth takes place at Scone, where Macbeth is officially crowned as King of Scotland. This event is significant as it marks Macbeth's ascension to power after he murders King Duncan.
Scone is not a person at all, it's the place where Macbeth is crowned king.
"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.""He that's coming must be provided for; and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch.""We shall proceed no further in this business."