The nineteenth -century English writer Thomas De Quincey argued that the scene with the Porter reinforces the shock of the king's murder by a striking contrast " The re establishment of the goings- on of the world in which we live, first makes us profoundly sensible of the awful episode ) that had suspended them." ( For a larger excerpt from De Quincey's essay, see pages 356-357. ) Do you agree or disagree? Explain.