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Revision:Blake - Context Summary

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Revolution

  • Blake continued to support the french revolution during the "terror" when other romantics turned away
  • French revolutionaries were called tigers
  • agreed with Rousseau on revolution ideologies
  • Tom Paine - supported the revolutionaries


Religion

  • took Swedenborg's philosophy of the god being in Jesus one step further - god is in all of us
  • believed religion shouldn't restrict you from love/sex etc
  • "the church is cold"
  • lambs - Jesus was the lamb of god?


Child Labour

  • Blake was against this - he believed children should be "free" as "birds" to do what they want
  • child labour was on rise in 18th century due to industrial revolution
  • children were sold -chimney sweeper "father sold him before he could scarcely cry weep weep"


Children

  • children are born innocent and DO NOT become corrupt if they have experience
  • children trust their instincts - that's how it should be
  • believed humans were innocent by nature but corrupt by society - view of Rousseau


Education

  • Blake wasn't completely against education, just that children should not sit and learn out of a "textbook" but rather learn from life
  • if children do not learn NATURE-aly they wont know how to cope in later life


Slavery

  • slavery was on the rise in 18th century
  • the little black boy "i am black but oh my soul is white"
  • thought black people were closer to god due to their suffering


Science

  • Blake didn't believe in science
  • didn't agree with newton
  • believed in Adam and Eve and creation story


Comments

These notes are aimed at A Level English Literature students at A2 level.

Originally written by little one on TSR Forums.