Blake + Volpone critics 3.5 / 5 based on 2 ratings ? English LiteratureWilliam BlakeVolponeA2/A-levelOCR Created by: LeaCreated on: 17-05-15 16:16 Parker on: family units "All its family units are distorted by greed" 1 of 18 the Avocatori "The avocatori fail to live up to the social responsabilities implied by the reiterated title of 'fatherhoods'" 2 of 18 Voltore "betrays [...] his profession as a lawyer" 3 of 18 animals "men imitate the lust and savagery of animals, not their wisdom" 4 of 18 Nano, Castrone and Androgyno "provide theatrical emblems of Volpone's spiritual deformity" 5 of 18 acting "one of the Fox's main delights, a defining aspect of his personality" 6 of 18 the power of acting "the power this gives [...] excites more than either gold or sexual possession" 7 of 18 Avocatori as judges "corrupt as judges, little better than the rogues they censure" 8 of 18 Johnson on the Innocence poems "manifestly uterocentric" 9 of 18 Sturrock on: the mother "clearly preferred to the father as an image of safekeeping" 10 of 18 females in Experience "self destructive as well as destructive of others" 11 of 18 the female in My Pretty Rose Tree "not only the sexual female but also the maternal female is threatening" 12 of 18 Sehgal on: Innocence "expresses the happiness of a child's first thoughts on life...purity, joy and security" 13 of 18 Experience "guilt, misery and tyranny" 14 of 18 The Sick Rose "shows the destructive effects of sexual repression" 15 of 18 Sagar on: Innocence poems "they mime the state of infancy in their simplicity and vulnerability" 16 of 18 A Divine Image "clearly a description of humanity under the iron rule of Urizen" 17 of 18 Norton on The Chimney Sweeper "the vision is heaven is an intoxicating contrast with the bleak depiction of the sweeps' lives" 18 of 18
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