Both texts envisage authoritarian societies which have explored individual liberty that has been usurped by an all-powerful state. However, the two differ in the methods that used to show the way in which the authorities have accumulated control. Orwell’s government maintain control through the use of psychological manipulation and physical control whilst Blake’s society relies on impossible promises of a Utopias after a life of misery. Blake’s religious apocalypse involves a progression from ‘Chimney Sweep’ in songs of innocence and of experience and an acceptance of the two contrary states if the human soul. An antithesis between death and life, coldness and warmth, darkness and light. Blake attacks the religious authorities in the line “If
