I am curious to know whether the word "experience" should be associated with "evil", thereby becoming an antonym for "innocence" or should it be associated with its literal meaning, as in "what is actually experienced in the real world, which comprises of both good(innocence) and evil."
In the imaginative world created by William Blake, Experience is associated with adulthood, logic, and reason. It is the real world we live in with all its darkness and complications. Northrop Frye depicts this world as: " The world of experience is the world that adults live in while they are awake. It is a very big world, and a lot of it seems to be dead, but still it makes its own kind of sense. When we stare at it, it stares unwinkingly back, and the changes that occur in it are, on the whole, orderly and predictable changes. This quality in the world that reassures us we call law."
I am curious to know whether the word "experience" should be associated with "evil", thereby becoming an antonym for "innocence" or should it be associated with its literal meaning, as in "what is actually experienced in the real world, which comprises of both good(innocence) and evil."
In the imaginative world created by William Blake, Experience is associated with adulthood, logic, and reason. It is the real world we live in with all its darkness and complications. Northrop Frye depicts this world as:
" The world of experience is the world that adults live in while they are awake. It is a very big world, and a lot of it seems to be dead, but still it makes its own kind of sense. When we stare at it, it stares unwinkingly back, and the changes that occur in it are, on the whole, orderly and predictable changes. This quality in the world that reassures us we call law."