`Macbeth' written between 1603 and 1606, was one of the most famous plays ever. Shakespeare wrote the play to suit his Elizabethan audience. He knew how to structure a play that his audience could relate to and could understand. Therefore, in this case Shakespeare intentionally wrote the play involving many characters that had different ranges of courage through their actions. Shakespeare presents us with different courageous characters and it is us who have to decide personally who we believe is the most courageous of all.

Firstly we learn of Macbeth's courage on the battlefield and how the Captain describes him as being "Brave Macbeth." To be able to have such heroic performance on the battlefield we cannot question the amount of courage Macbeth used.

"Till he unseamed him from the nave to th'chaps

And fixed his head upon our battlements."

This quote means that Macbeth had the strength to cut...