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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 ...
"On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" is an essay in Shakespearean criticism by the English author Thomas De Quincey, first published in the October 1823 edition of The London Magazine. Though brief, less than 2,000 words in length, [1] it has been called "De Quincey's finest single critical piece" [2] and "one of the most ...
- Thomas De Quincey
- England
- 1823
- English
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.
- Feeling Over Understanding
- The Meaning of Sympathy
- Time Stands Still
Thomas De Quincey was a Romantic-era writer and valued emotion and intuition over logic and reason. He begins this essay by sharing his profound emotional experience at the moment someone knocks at the gate after Duncan's murder in Macbeth. De Quincey's concern with feeling rather than logic or rhetoric distinguish his essay from other Shakespearea...
De Quincey says that people feel revulsion if they only have sympathy or an emotional connection to the victims. Murder goes against the human instinct to self-preserve, and it evokes repulsion but does not help people understand human nature. De Quincey states that this perspective does not work for poetry. It would be vulgar if a poet only evoked...
De Quincey can explain the significance of the feeling he experiences at the knocking at the gate in Macbethby describing other times he's felt the same feeling. He describes the gasp after a woman faints or the first noise after a moment of silence. These small events break the stillness of an emotionally significant moment. Other similar moments ...
《论〈麦克白〉中的敲门声》(On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth，1823年)是历代评论莎士比亚文章中的名篇。它所评论的情节是《麦克白》剧的第二幕第二场第五十七行至第七十四行。在这一场里，麦克白和他的妻子刚刚害死了邓肯，响亮的敲门声使他们非常惊恐。
In the following scene, the audience learns that Macduff has been knocking at the gate and enters Macbeth's estate at Inverness. The knocking itself is ominous and foreboding, which...
