Blake critical quotes

Question 1

Power and Control

Answer 1

1) “He believed all restraint in obedience to a moral code was against the spirit of life” - Alfred Kazin
2) “The children became entangled in the nations power politics” - David Fairer

Question 2

Defiance

Answer 2

1) “Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies” - Alfred Kazin
2) “Blake’s poems serve to damn those institutions which by their advocacy of this rationality sought to stifle divine energy with oppressive morality” - Timothy Vines

Question 3

Deception and Disguise

Answer 3

1) “It is by having these paralleled texts that Blake can respond to the decay in human values” - Timothy Vines
2) “In the face of these social wrongs the complacency of the church clearly seemed unforgivable to Blake” - Richard Willmott

Question 4

Injustice

Answer 4

1) “Blake’s writings are an endeavour to loosen if break society’s mind forged manacles” - Timothy Vines
2) “Blake believed putting children to woke in unsafe and un nurturing environments unfairly ages their souls and warps their individual thinking” - Michael James McClard

Question 5

Insitututions

Answer 5

1) “Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies” - Alfred Kazin
2) “In the face of these social wrongs the complacency of the church clearly seemed unforgivable to Blake” - Richard Willmott

Question 6

Restrictions

Answer 6

1) “Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and perverting if energy and desire” - Richard Willmott
2) “Blake’s writings are an endeavour to loosen or break society’s mind forged manacles” - Timothy Vines

Question 7

Corruption

Answer 7

1) “Blake believed putting children to work in unsafe and Un nurturing environments unfairly ages their souls and warp their individual thinking” - Michael James McClard
2) “Blake’s writings are an endeavour to loosen or break society’s mind forged manacles” - Timothy Vines

Question 8

Religion

Answer 8

1) “Blake is against everything that submits, mortifies, constricts and denies” - Alfred Kazin
2) “Blake’s writings are an endeavour to loosen or break society’s mind forged manacles” - Timothy Vines

Question 9

Desire

Answer 9

1) “Mans vital energies cannot be suppressed or displaced without causing distortion” - Alfred Kazin
2) “Blake saw both religious and social laws as being unjust, frustrating and perverting energy and desire” - Richard Willmott

Question 10

Manipulation

Answer 10

1) “It is by having these paralleled texts that Blake can respond to the decay in human values” - Timothy Vines
2) “If conventional mortality is mistaken, it follows that those who try to enforce it are themselves immoral and have a corrupting effect” - Richard Willmott