{"id":45542,"date":"2023-01-31T04:58:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays.homeworkacetutors.com\/2023\/01\/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-essay\/"},"modified":"2023-01-31T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:58:07","slug":"the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. How do you\u00a0explain the Mariner\u2019s killing of the albatross? I would describe the Mariner\u2019s killing of the albatross as very ungrateful. If the albatross had not come along, the entire crew would have most likely died in the ice field. The Mariner was completely senseless in shooting the albatross; therefore, of course there was going to be very bad consequences. The consequences tend to be even worse than death at some points. The albatross did the Mariner and his crew a favor, by saving their lives, and the Mariner ungratefully shoots and kills his own savior.<\/p>\n

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The lonely sailors treat the albatross like a person, a \u201cChristian soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Christian symbolism, Christ is sometimes metaphorically compared to a bird; hence, the albatross can be a symbol for Christ. Since the Mariner senselessly shot the albatross, he was persecuted, which is why the rest of his trip did not go very well. The poem describes the bird as a holy thing \u201chailed in God\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

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\u201d The Mariner is like the Christian who commits sins, causing Christ to die on the cross. It\u2019s God\u2019s rules that Man should respect all of His creations; the albatross is part of God\u2019s creations. In respecting the albatross, the Mariner would be respecting God himself. Furthermore, if the Mariner decided to respect God, and his creations, he may have had a better remainder of a trip.<\/p>\n

2. One literary critic has said that the poem begins in despair and ends in hope. Telling the tale leaves the Mariner \u201cfree\u201d for a time. Another critic has called the Mariner \u201cthe voice of experience that transcends what man can learn in space and time.\u201d Discuss the validity of these ideas in relation to the poem as you understand it. Lastly, connect the theme of redemption to another literary work we have studied.<\/p>\n

3. The idea of one\u2019s life beginning in despair and ending in hope reflects the idea of redemption. The mariner begins the poem in despair and guilt after he has killed the sacred albatross. The guilt is present in both the natural and the super natural world and is clearly depicted in the albatross that hung around his neck. It is not until the mariner appreciates both nature and prayer that he has found the road to redemption. The mariner is condemned to a life in death situation placing him in a different world than everyone else. He teaches us through space and time in his new form of living. He learns from his sins and searches for the path of redemption.<\/p>\n

The Christian allegory shows the bridge between the idea of fate being chosen for you and the ability to redirect fate. Like in The Scarlett Letter, Hester Prynn was searching for redemption from the sin she committed. She was forced into another world in which no one could quite understand. She had to overcome the judgments of another society and achieve her redemption in which she found in the natural world, her house in the woods, and the supernatural world, he redemption with God.<\/p>\n

4. One scholar believes the Wedding Guest is chosen because he represents \u201cunsophisticated innocence preoccupied with pleasures of the moment in a universe of whose full dimensions and population he is quite ignorant.\u201d As a result of hearing the Mariner\u2019s tale, the Wedding Guest changes, becoming \u201ca sadder and wiser man.\u201d Of what has he been forlorn (deprived)? Address this criticism in light of your understanding of Coleridge\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n

I believe that the Wedding Guest becomes, in a sense, under the possession of the Mariner. \u201cThe wedding-guest sat on a stone,\/He cannot choose but hear;\/And thus spake on that ancient man,\/The bright-eyed mariner\u201d (Rime 1.17-20). The Mariner even refers to the guest as immature when he says that he \u201clistens like a three years\u2019 child.\u201d After the Mariner\u2019s story comes to an end, it is affirmed that the Wedding Guest has taken in knowledge that dramatically changes him as a human.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe went like one that hath been stunned\/And is of sense forlorn:\/A sadder and a wiser man,\/He rose the morrow morn\u201d (Rime 7.622-625). I believe that the Wedding Guest is the type of person who tends to take everything in his life for granted; hence, he wanted a change in his routine life. This story was one of the many instances that changed a person. I definitely see this as a point of reflection in his life, of what his life used to be. It can also be seen as a prevention to change his way of thinking before it becomes much too late.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. How do you\u00a0explain the Mariner\u2019s killing of the albatross? I would describe the Mariner\u2019s killing of the albatross as very ungrateful. If the albatross had not come along, the entire crew would have most likely died in the ice field. The Mariner was completely senseless in shooting the albatross; therefore, of course there was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8402,5817,8396],"tags":[6864,6861,6863,5287,6862,6865],"class_list":["post-45542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-my-homework-literature","category-literature","category-paper-writing-service","tag-academic-paper-help","tag-assignment-writing-services","tag-essay-writing-assistance","tag-homework-ace-tutors","tag-online-homework-help","tag-reliable-assignment-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colapapers.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}