They run out of water while the weather gets really hot. Everyone blames him for killing the albatross that they replace the cross with dead albatross around his neck to remind him of his error. Next, he indirectly get everyone on the ship dead because of the sin he commits. Feeling guilty, the Mariner wants to pray because he is still be cursed. But the Mariner escapes his curse by unconsciously blessing the water snakes, and the albatross drops off his neck into the ocean.
The Mariner now realizes the trouble he has brought upon himself, yet his incapability to speak does not give him the chance to pray out loud. Indeed every action has it's consequence whether good or bad, yet the Mariner had to witness the dice game between the spirit of Death and Life-and-Death as part of his punishment since, he expressed a belief that the world is guided by luck and chaos when he killed the albatross. The Mariner's pride has set him back to realize that all of nature's creations are to be respected and appreciated. In his anguish and guilt for his shipmates the Mariner is partially expatiated as he is able to recognize the swimming sea creatures as true
The death of his mother doesn’t even bother him so show sadness. When Meursault realized that his freedom was gone away for good he begin to see things different.”And I felt ready to live again too. As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope: for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”(Camus Stranger122). The quote explains that maybe he took the world for granted and there was so much to accomplish in the world of freedom. In The Myth of Sisyphus -Sisyphus stole the gods secrets and he was punished for this action.
Sin is like a curtain that blocks the light of God from the people who need it most. He becomes literally and figuratively lost at sea, and his sins weigh him down like an anchor. Because the Mariner lives “in an ordered universe where crime leads to suffering”, he is immediately punished for his sins (Modiano 150). God proves his command over nature when he puts the wind to a halt, causing the ship to become static. The “copper sky” and “bloody sun” physically drain the accompanying sailors until they become too exhausted to wake up leaving the Mariner in agonizing isolation (Coleridge 111, 112).
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” describes a lamenting story about a sailor who, for no good reason, shoots down an albatross that was following his ship while sailing. The sight of an albatross is a considered a good omen to sailors. When the Ancient Mariner shot it down, killed it, and therefore placing a curse upon the crew for his awful deed. The telling of this story could possibly be as a result of an opium-induced stupor, instead of a morality lesson. It is well known that Coleridge began a drug habit as a child and severely debilitated him later on in life ("Poetry Foundation").
Although the Mariner let go of his hand the wedding guest was unable to move away as he was spell bound by the Mariners ‘glittering eye’ and this suggests that the wedding guests character has drastically changed at this point as at first he was impatient with the Mariner then he started getting angry and later he was spell bound and was all ears as the Mariner unravelled his tale. As the tale continues we can see that after the Mariner Shoots the Albatross he is his own conscience personified and has intense guilt for what he has done. The poem that dips in with both the everyday world and the supernatural portrays this characteristic of the Mariner well as it shows that at the end of the day he was human and he did feel guilty and is able to pass on the important tale. The Character of the wedding guest also serves as proof that the Mariners tale is important and needs to be passed on from the old experienced people to the younger generation. Overall Coleridge showed
Therefore, at the start of this section, Coleridge uses the frightened narrative voice of the wedding guest to express the mariner’s supernatural appearance. As the section progresses, Coleridge uses ambiguous description to express the hellish experience of the mariner, having been disconnected from the divine. The repetition of ‘alone’ creates a sense of the mariner’s isolation in this ‘rotting sea’ after his shipmates have died. Coleridge described the ‘thousand slimy things’ which are the only living creatures left with the mariner after the death of his crew. The ambiguous description of them as ‘things’ suggests that this world is so supernatural that it cannot be described in detail.
One of these examples is “For all averred, / I had killed the bird / That made the breeze to blow. / Ah wretch! / said they, the bird to slay, / That made the breeze to blow!” (Rime 93-96). This is an emotional example because the sailors became mad with the Mariner when he shot the albatross with his crossbow. Another emotional example is when the sailors started to rejoice when they saw an approaching ship.
Seeing the ugly duckling for the first, a “spiteful duck,” (Andersen) “flew out and bit him in the neck” (Anderson). This blatant act of malice was strictly because of his looks. Thought out the rest of his Life the Ugly Duckling bears numerous horrible acts, from being verbally abused by a hen to being so neglected that he feels the need to avoid all contact with other animals and humans. This however helped the swan become who he is at the end of the story. At the end of Andersen’s fairytale the beautiful swan summarizes,
The beautiful island becomes a hell at the end of the novel. Finally, when Ralph is escaping from the hunting of other boys, he is saved by a navy officer who takes all boys back to the ship. Towards the end of the last chapter, the passage "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man' heart, and the fall through the air of his true, wise friend called Piggy" demonstrates the main theme of this novel: man is evil by nature. The three things that Ralph weeps for are the lessons he has on this island: innocent boys become savage; all human beings have evil deep inside their hearts and the fall of science and rationality before the evil of human. These three issues are developed throughout the whole novel with this passage as the conclusion of the main theme - human beings are evil by nature.