Macbeth
The Banquet Scene
When the guests enter, Macbeth says: "You know your own degrees ..." Later in the scene, after Macbeth's hysterical outbursts, Lady Macbeth says: "Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once." Macbeth, through the Witches' riddles and his wife's prompting, has broken the order in Scotland by murdering the good, kind King Duncan. Thus the Banquet Scene, with its formal entrances and hurried exits, symbolises much of the meaning of the play as a whole.
The Banquet Scene
When the guests enter, Macbeth says: "You know your own degrees ..." Later in the scene, after Macbeth's hysterical outbursts, Lady Macbeth says: "Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once." Macbeth, through the Witches' riddles and his wife's prompting, has broken the order in Scotland by murdering the good, kind King Duncan. Thus the Banquet Scene, with its formal entrances and hurried exits, symbolises much of the meaning of the play as a whole.