Does anyone know how William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience relates to this quote....?

Question

"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" Rousseau

How can it support the revolution in France?

This question has me lost.

Answer 1

am lost too.

thanks one sonia, rousseau quote means:

man could be free but as he goes on through life chain after chain attach to him...they come from his circumstances....his economy...his family.....his nationality....the race he belongs....even his own personality....his destiny is mostly influenced by his own personality , his economy and other peoples actions.

now am at a loss about blake=french revolution=quotation.

any links? revolution was about freedom, dismantling shackles and chains of man's unfreedom. . . .!