Society's most Vulnerable
Children are society's most vulnerable citizens, and the responsibility of ensuring safety and a good quality of life is up to the older generations that are in charge of implementing laws to ensure these needs are met. At times children can slip through the cracks and the ones who are in charge of caring for them turn a blind eye to abuse, in "The Chimney Sweeper" the neglect and abuse is prevalent in 18th century London. In William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" Blake conveys the abuse and the loss of innocence that children faced while being forced to work, in 18th century London, Blake wanted to shine light on the child abuse that was being allowed to happen.
William Blake wanted to bring to light the …show more content…
The job of being a chimney sweeper was dangerous, it was a job not intended for children and yet children were being forced to do it. In the opening line the narrator speaks about being sold by his father to become a chimney sweeper. Children from poorer families were being sold and practically becoming slaves and having their childhoods taken from them. "That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/Were all of them locked up in coffins of black" Blake wanted to show society, that instead of taking caring of these children that they are selling them to their deaths (Blake 11-12). The intense labor the children endured was back breaking and dangerous that only with death could they escape it "And by came an Angel who had a bright key,/ And he opened the coffins & set them all free" (Blake 13-14). Blake conveyed even with the hard labor children faced they were igonratanly happy to do it regardless of the dangers "Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;/ So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm" (Blake 23-24). The children were failed by their families and put to work and do these dangerous jobs regardless of the dangers. Blake tried to bring to light the dangerous of using children to do hard
Children are society's most vulnerable citizens, and the responsibility of ensuring safety and a good quality of life is up to the older generations that are in charge of implementing laws to ensure these needs are met. At times children can slip through the cracks and the ones who are in charge of caring for them turn a blind eye to abuse, in "The Chimney Sweeper" the neglect and abuse is prevalent in 18th century London. In William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" Blake conveys the abuse and the loss of innocence that children faced while being forced to work, in 18th century London, Blake wanted to shine light on the child abuse that was being allowed to happen.
William Blake wanted to bring to light the …show more content…
The job of being a chimney sweeper was dangerous, it was a job not intended for children and yet children were being forced to do it. In the opening line the narrator speaks about being sold by his father to become a chimney sweeper. Children from poorer families were being sold and practically becoming slaves and having their childhoods taken from them. "That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/Were all of them locked up in coffins of black" Blake wanted to show society, that instead of taking caring of these children that they are selling them to their deaths (Blake 11-12). The intense labor the children endured was back breaking and dangerous that only with death could they escape it "And by came an Angel who had a bright key,/ And he opened the coffins & set them all free" (Blake 13-14). Blake conveyed even with the hard labor children faced they were igonratanly happy to do it regardless of the dangers "Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm;/ So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm" (Blake 23-24). The children were failed by their families and put to work and do these dangerous jobs regardless of the dangers. Blake tried to bring to light the dangerous of using children to do hard