Afleveringen
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Blakeâs mythology recreates the Biblical account. The Fall as a Fall of an Aspect of God, which is a Creation-Fall: that is, that Fall is identical to the creation of the fallen world. Blakeâs mythology: the fiery-haired Orc, Promethean figure of energy and desire. The poem America: Orc as the spirit of the American Revolution.
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Prose satire The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was begun in 1790, the beginning of the French Revolution, which inspired wild hope throughout Europe of a crucial upheaval that would transform human life. The first task in this revolutionary moment is the liberation of energy in all its forms, psychological, political, artistic.
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Blake saw himself in the line of the prophets railing against social abuses, including racism, child labor, and gender oppression. What both gives rise to these and keeps them in place? The central poem âLondonâ provides the answer: the âmindâforged manacles.â
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Blake created his own mythology, which eventually included two characters whose antagonism is comparable to that of Prometheus and Jupiter. But he began by exploring the relationship of what he called Contraries, beginning with The Songs of Innocence and Experience: Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
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The dramaâs conflict ends in Act 3, scene 1, with the demise of Jupiter, with two acts still to come. These are taken up by imagery of the transformation of humanity and nature, not just returning to an ordinary state free of tyranny and suffering, but beginning a metamorphosis into the paradisal.
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Prometheus calls up the Phantasm of Jupiter to recall the curse he once pronounced on Jupiter, which he now regrets. Mercury arrives with the Furies, who, in this drama of the mind, are the forms of human despair and hopelessness. Other Spirits arrive, sent from a poetâs imagination, saying donât give up. End of Act 1.
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Prometheusâs opening speech indicates that he has changed. He no longer hates, and would recant his curse on Jupiter, but canât remember it. No one, even his mother, Earth, dares tell him. But Earth tells him to summon someone from a mysterious Otherworld âbelowâ death, in which reside images which are the doubles of all things in this life.
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An âactâ in Greek tragedy consists of dialogue between the hero and another character, followed by an interchange with the Chorus and a Choral Ode. In the second âact,â Prometheus speaks to Oceanus, the ocean, who counsels repentance and humble obedience. Prometheus responds by a remarkable speech in which fire becomes the fire of the creative mind.
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Hesiod, a partisan of Zeus, casts Prometheus, the antagonist of Zeus, in a negative light. Zeusâs revenge against humanity is Pandora, an artificially-constructed woman given to Epimetheus, Prometheusâs brother. She opens a jar (âboxâ is a mistranslation), and all evils fly out. Theories that Pandora is a patriarchal distortion of an original Goddess myth.
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