A-Level英语-布莱克作品的时代背景Blake - Context。

Revision: Blake - Context

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

accelerated pace of change

town: machinery, industry

country: agricultural

continuity of families broken - not all were in same country village

forges: industry

growth of child labor - textile factories and chimney sweeps

Blake inspired by furnaces - positively and negatively

profit for mill owners

POLITICAL REVOLUTION

Rousseau - man is born free but is everywhere in chains

French/American Revolutions

casting off of loathsome political ruling

Blake welcomed revolutions

uses of images being bound [Infant Sorrow]

"mind-forged manacles" - [London]

"binding with briars" [Garden of Love]

RELIGION

unorthodox view by Blake

"life is holy and everything on Earth is the word of God and in its essence IS God"

Christianity - everyone born with the ability to commit sins

Blake thought the Church and the State were too close

believed in fighting

exploitation of poor

curbs on political liberty

opposition to sexual freedom

happiness with war

church should provide more charity

church beliefs:

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