3/18/2023 0 Comments From the depths of hell in silenceJones is not implying that Marriage is intended for children, but that by casting readers in the role of a student, Blake implies that he is the teacher. Edward Terry Jones points out in his essay “Another Look at the Structure of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” that Blake’s “patchwork texture” of proverbs, illustrations, poems, and short prose are likely to be purposely representational of contemporaneous childrens’ primers of the time, most likely Isaac Watt’s Divine Songs (Jones 1977, 115). His work has been credited as being one of the forerunners of the graphic novel. In the 18th century, William Blake famously used the printing press to invent new ways of printing in color in order to self-publish his “Illuminated Books”, a collection of works made from plates that combine art with text to create an entirely new form of book. In order to explore this connection, this article will look at similarities in the representations of good and evil, the workings of self-exploration, and the use of religious and occult symbolism used to express that exploration in both works. As this paper will show, the 1999 release of Silent Hill, a survival horror videogame for the PlayStation, not only bears an uncanny resemblance to much of the artwork and themes prevalent throughout the works of William Blake, (particularly his seminal text, Marriage of Heaven and Hell) but, in several distinct ways, has digitally recreated the metaphorical inward journey that the poet takes into the depths of Hell. While it might seem incongruous to compare a video game made during an era where video games had not yet achieved the kind of recognition as art or entertainment as they have today with an 18th century collection of artwork and poetry intended to disrupt the English Church, that’s about where their dissimilarities end. Is silent on my clouded hills that belch forth storms and fires ” My tents are fallen my trumpets and the sweet sounds of my harp ![]() “My birds are silent in my hills flocks die beneath my branches Author: Eric Sofala-Jones Georgia College & State University
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