This picture always appears when you search up anything about William Blake and his Europe prophecy. The picture is very interesting and captivating. At first glance you see an old man down on one knee with his hand extending down, making what looks like a perfect 90 degree angle with his fingers. It also looks like the man is up in the clouds. Looking at it more closely you can see that it’s not a perfect angle and you begin to wonder why Blake made it that way. It also makes you wonder who the old man is and how is he significant to the picture. From my point of view Blake didn’t make the angle perfect because he didn’t believe in science. I believe that the old man in the painting is supposed to be himself. Since the old man isn’t making a perfect angle he messed it up on purpose. Blake was into religion more and he made fun of many scientists in some of his other paintings. He was against most of the connventional thinking he belived in the divinty of things more. This painting was made from a metal stamp. Blake and his wife etched this picture out of a piece of metal first. Then stamped it and used it as an outline for the painting.
The next picture that shows up when searching William Blakes Europe prophecy is this snake picture. The snake is really big and evil looking but that’s usually how most snakes looks to me. The big snake has a small resemblance to a dragon because it has a small horn on it’s head and it has scaley skin. I wondered why Blake chose a snake for this prophecy. When I read the prophecy the snake didn’t have a big role in it. The snake came from “infinite” being changed into a serpent that scared away man. The serpent is obviously bad if it scared away man. I don’t understand how it was that the serpent came from “Infinte”. I don’t really know what Blake wanted “infinte” to be if it was an object or a person. Why would the snake want to scare man away? What did man ever do to the snake or “Infinite”?
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