
A nameless shadowy female comes into the story. She starts complaining about being brought to life in this world with other people, because she feels like "Mother Enitharmon" is going to forget about her. “Mother Enitharmon” represents God or some higher power. The nameless female brings evil to the world shown by “all-devouring fiery kings”. They bring horrible terrors to the world devouring everything. Then she realizes what she did was wrong and asks "Mother Enitharmon" for forgiveness and to stomp the evil kings and take them away. By asking for forgiveness it shows that everybody has a good side and everyone has a choice, most of the time its our experiences that make the choices for us. Once “Mother Enitharmon” sees that she is genuinely sorry and really regrets what she did, she pardons her. The shadowy female dies in peace after being forgiven.
I was confused about what this shadowy female had to do with anything and why she had to be a “nameless shadowy female”. Did Blake make her nameless and shadowy so that it would be easier to visualize her as a bad person? Or a person who made a mistake and wanted to take back what they did?
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