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This 6 page paper discusses William Blake’s work “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” and argues that it represents the two halves of the human spirit. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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they contain illustrations or "plates" that show a reader the events the text is discussing. When, as if often the case, only the text is printed, something of the experience
is lost, because the visual counterpart is missing. This paper argues that Blakes work was a discussion of the sometimes contrary nature of man and his thinking, using the analogy
of heaven and hell as the structure for this examination. Discussion "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was written during the period 1790-1793, and is "the most complex work of
Blakes early years" ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"). The book comprises 24 Plates, and "has at its heart an opposition between Heaven, conceived as an image of restraint and
passivity, and Hell, an image of energy and action" ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"). The duality is clearly shown by Blake when he writes "Without Contraries is no progression.
Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence" (Blake). According to Blake, these "contraries" arise from what religious persons call "Good and Evil. Good
is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy" (Blake). Several sources have pointed out that it seems clear that Blake prefers the energy of evil
as opposed to the passivity of good, and its easy to understand that. When we are faced with this type of dichotomy, its much more likely that we will be
drawn to an active construct rather than a passive one. It is in human nature to want to be active, to act, to take charge and fix things and get
things done, rather than to wait passively for whatever is to come. Despite the fact that Blake says flatly, "Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell," its clear that he would
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