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An essay on the crucial moment after Duncan's murder by scholar Thomas De Quincey.
11 de nov. de 2020 · Thomas De Quincey’s essay On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is one of the best known of his critical works-it appears in most anthologies of criticism and nineteenth-century prose, and is hailed it as “the finest romantic criticism.” “On the knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” was first published in the London Magazine in ...
The essay concerns Act II, scene three in The Tragedy of Macbeth, in which the murder of King Duncan by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is succeeded by Macduff and Lennox knocking at the gate of the castle. The knocking ends Act II, scene 2 and opens Act II, 3, the Porter scene.
Macbeth. ". Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English essayist and literary critic, best known for his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822), and for the short essay, "On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth," first published the London Magazine for October 1823.
Introduction. Thomas De Quincey opens his essay by explaining that he has been deeply moved by a particular moment in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. This emotional response confused De Quincey because he could not explain why the moment stirred him. De Quincey recalls the moment after Macbeth murders Duncan and hears a knock at the castle gate.
darkness passes away like a pageantry in the clouds: the knocking at the gate is heard; and it makes known audibly that the reaction has commenced; the human has made its reflux upon the fiendish; the pulses of life are beginning to beat again; and the re-establishment of the goings-on of the world in which we live, first makes us profoundly
The knocking at the gate continues, and the castle porter goes to open the gate. He is a coarse, curmudgeonly character, still drunk from the previous night’s revels, and complains...
