BLAKE

Question 1

Blakes home life

Answer 1

• Liberal household
• rejected the Church of England- because it was very rich and powerful yet did nothing to help poverty.
• Bible was very important

Question 2

Blakes education

Answer 2

• from age of 10 he did not go to school
• he went to drawing school
• due to anti-authoritarian views
• if he went to school he would be ‘following the style of a fool’

Question 3

Blakes views

Answer 3

• anti-authoritarian
• believed in racial and gender equality
• rejected restrictions of O.T God and though N.T God was a good influence.
• believed the upper class and CoE were corrupt and exploitative.

Question 4

Blakes visions

Answer 4

• When he was 4- saw Gods face at his window
• Angels on a tree
• Felt they were true perception of reality– seeing beyond the fallen world

Question 5

Blakes religion

Answer 5

• Believed that those who loved the LORD would go to heaven
• Those who loved themselves and were very materialistic would go to hell
• Believed that evil originates in man-kind due to The Fall.