Blake's thought of "self-annihilation" in MILTON can be falsely identified with Urizenic self-grounded absolutism. One of the reasons why Blake can be easily associated with his ideological antagonist partly comes from a discourse of Blake legitmate criticism which has a characteristic tendency toward erasing the other in Blake's text by its overemphasis on the self's ultimate unification of the other to ignore "the generative differential movement" of his text. Especially in MILTON, however, we must not miss the point that in Milton's first utterance about his travel to "Eternal Death", his self-annihilation has a close relation to redemption of the others such as his Emanation and Satan. This suggests that Blake's "self-annihilation" is not a step toward achieving absolute self-identity but a moment of the radically changing relationship between the self and the other, which is also a counter-thought to a Satanic law or "Negation". In this degital paper, therefore, I shall mainly discuss three points as follows:
1. Milton cannot achieve his self-annihilation or even travel ahead without the hep of Ololon the other, for he was lost in a maze when his redeemed portion was driven down into Ulro.
2. The illocutionary force within Ololon's short utterance breaks up repetition of the false behavior toward the other as well as a chain of lamentation: Ololon's first encounter to Baulah which suddently appears as an unknown realm / state of being talls that its /her/their [i.e. Ololon's] behavior toward the other is decidedly different form that of other characters who excluded the other as an alien to sustain their established order.
3. Act of "hearing" the other's voice is given an important role in MILTON, for only "Nerves of the Ear" is completely free from vegetative or Satanic domination within "the Mundane Shell". Los heard Eden's lamentation to recover his lost prophetic voice; and Milton heard Ololon's voice to break his long silence and to reveal his vision of self-annihilation.
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- KEIKO AOYAMA
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