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Throughout his career Blake develops the theme of marriage in various ways. He is profoundly interested in re-visioning and re-presenting the male-female relationship as is acknowledged by virtually every commentator on his work. Especially in the radical literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the proper individual roles, and the social function of marriage were recurrent themes. That is to say, at issue were the real effects of contemporary expectations about gender roles and marriage functioning as a stabilizing or destabilizing force in society. It was within this context that Blake was waging mental war. Blake was not searching at this point for any happy bonding of the sexes as the more realist philosophers or social ameliorists of his day were doing. He was searching for new formulations for reimagined social relations that would incorporate both the new figurations of male-female relationships that he was working out and the new visions of possibility for a newly imagined social world that would create a new version of heaven and hell in England. Conclusively speaking, Blake initiates a new way of looking at and thinking about gender roles and a revolutionized social community, ‘New Jerusalem’ or a democratic world in which variety and individuality of all individuals coexists in harmony.