Hagstrum in his essay "On Innocence and Experience" writes, "The Urizen of Experience is not primarily the fallen Lucifer, the mythic figure of Blake's prophecy, but a social creature, a supporter of repressive institutions". ... For instance in the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" it is an angel who "open'd the coffins & set them all free." ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. The sky above them is blue, not black, and healthy, green vegetation, grows around the text. This nice, n...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The novel introduces an Ibo community free of outside influences during the 1880's. ... The following essay examines Things Fall Apart while paying attention to the societal disorder caused by the clash of African and European value systems. This essay also examines Achebe's representation of the decline of African civilization brought about though Africa's colonial period. ... The Oracle was so powerful that a young boy, Ikemefuna, was sacrificed because it said it must be so. ... The new religion caused Blacks to reject and become ashamed of both their culture and themsel...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

John Locke's book, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," presents the concept of Tabula Rasa or blank slate, which states that the human mind receives knowledge through the experience without any pre-existing innate ideas when they were born. ... Tom is a middle-class boy who received religious teaching and was indoctrinated with social values. ... In the events that Huck and Jim continue their journey towards free states, there are times that they steal food from the nearby towns. ... The society's belief that the black people should be enslaved because they are inferior subspe...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School