Social condition of England as seen in imagery and symbol in William Blake's Holy Thursday, The Tyger, and The Little Black Boy

Ismunanto, Paulus Krisna (2008) Social condition of England as seen in imagery and symbol in William Blake's Holy Thursday, The Tyger, and The Little Black Boy. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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This thesis discusses about the social condition in England in the 18th century through the imageries and symbols in William Blake's poems entitled Holy Thursday, The Tyger, and The Little Black Boy. The Imageries in William Blake's three poems that have relation to the social conditions are visual, auditory,tactile, kinaesthetic, and organic imageries. A library research method is applied during the making of this thesis.The data is the site entitled Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence which is published in 1995 in the world-wide-web (www) in International network (Internet).Secondary data are several literary theories and some historical review. This thesis utilizes the theory of imageries, symbol, setting, industrial revolution age in England, the upper and the middle class. the working class, and racial discrimination. The review of the British social condition during the Industrial Revolution period is also presented to get a better understanding of the background of the story of the poems. This thesis applies the structural approach since it covers some aspects that are relevant to answer the problem formulation.By utilizing this approach; the writer is able to have a deeper research on the social conditions during the Industrial Revolution period in Britain. The result of the analysis shows that the social condition of each social class in Britain has affected the upper middle class with the working class, and the black with the white in the poems. The upper middle class society in Britain who endures a good living condition has changed into industrialist. They become tyrant to the working class. Meanwhile, the working class who has been forced to work hard becomes suffering to survive in such a bad condition. While the black and the white hate each other. The white consider that the black are bad in everything. The black become the victim of racial discrimination.

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