SECTION B- THEMATIC PLANS

C. Religious corruption (including hypocrisy)   C. Legal corruption (negative consequences of abuse of power-possibly by clergymen/other leaders) LEADING TO I. Abuse of innocent (as consequence of social corruption) C. Corruption of human character (deceit, sadism, enjoyment of other’s suffering, duplicity, lust) LEADING TO W. Perpetuation of evil

1= BLAKE- RELIGIOUS CRITICISM AO2: ‘all admired his priestly care’ (LITTLE BOY LOST), ‘Is this a holy thing to see,/In a rich and fruitful land./Babes reduced to misery./Fed with cold and usurous hand?’ (HOLY THURSDAY), ‘He sits down with holy fears/ And waters the ground with tears’ (The Human Abstract) A03: ‘a political radical’ AO4: Blake himself did not conform to the central church of the time (CofE) or any other church- his parents as well- he believed that religion was a deeply personal thing. The corrupt/restrictive institution (Anglicanism) drove others to dissent as well.

2= WEBSTER AO2: ‘O poor charity!/Thou art seldom found in scarlet.’, contrasting presentation of Monticelso and Vittoria ‘too bitter’ A03: ‘evil wears always the mask of virtue and virtue the mask of evil’ AO4: Criticism of the Catholic church

3= BLAKE, LEGAL CORRUPTION/SOCIAL INJUSTICE AO2: I-‘his head that curl’d like a lamb’s back was shav’d’ ‘marks of weakness, marks of woe’, ‘the hapless Soldier`s sigh runs in blood down Palace walls’ A03: ‘an historical and political commentator’, AO4: Highlights social injustice as urbanisation/early industrial improvements changed the societal structure/norms.

4=WEBSTER AO2: ‘A rape! A rape!... You have ravished justice’, ‘We have nought but circumstances/ To charge her with, about her husband’s death;/ Their approbation therefore the proofs/ Of her black lust’, ‘I will not have my accusation clouded in a foreign tongue’ A03: ‘the world is incurably corrupt’, ‘omnipresent world of corruption’; ‘the law is… a meaningless formality’ AO4: Voices the complaints of the contemporary audience/ plays on negative presentation of foreigners particularly Catholics

5= DECEIT BLAKE AO2: ‘it bears the fruit of Deceit / Ruddy and sweet to eat’, ‘And I sunned it with smiles,And with soft deceitful wiles’ A03: ‘cynical, world-weary’, ‘the voice of innocence is itself unstable and always ready to be undercut by a different apprehension of the world’ AO4: Heavily Christian audience knows imagery of fruit through story of creation/Genesis6= DECEIT WEBSTER AO2: ‘Some trick must now be thought on to divide my brother-in-law from his fair bed-fellow’ A03: ‘the deception of appearances’ AO4: Complex characters challenge previous presentations in contemporary drama

7= SADISM BLAKE AO2: ‘Cruelty knits a snare /And spreads his baits with care’, ‘In the morning glad I see my foe outstretch’d beneath the tree’ A03: ‘cynical, world-weary’, ‘the voice of innocence is itself unstable and always ready to be undercut by a different apprehension of the world’ AO4: Instructing heavily Christian readers in cynical truisms/human behaviour       8= SADISM WEBSTER AO2: Use of dumb show, ‘Excellent, then she’s dead’, ‘You are as welcome to these longing arms, as I to you a virgin’ [Tries to embrace him] [Turning away] ‘O your breath!’ A03: ‘complex and challenging characters’, ‘disturbing moral ambiguity’ AO4: Webster uses the new innovation of a dumb show- genre of the revenge tragedy

Origin of evil- The TygerHuman failing/corruption

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The LambGod & ReligionChildren & Innocents

Religion as oppressive/corrupt institutionQuestioning of God's existence/ origins of evil 

DeceitSadismCorruption

Corruption

Goodness

Religion

Evil

Human flaws/failings