“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” can be told as a horrendous story with a pleasant ending. About to indulge into a beautiful ceremony where some may cry and feel happiness, no one would ever want to start it off hearing a tale of awfulness. Before the ceremony even begins, the mariner pulls aside a random wedding guest and begins to tell his story of being on the ship. Although that may seem strange, the wedding guest couldn’t help but to throw himself into the story as well. When Coleridge says in the poem, “listens like a three years’ child,” he’s referring to the wedding guest who is fully engaged in his story. Throughout the tale, there are quite a few of themes that stood out. The theme that stood out the most was sin. From a majority of people’s perspective when you commit a sin, also known as doing something wrong, God will punish you. When a person has a strong faith in god and commits a crime, the only solution that he can turn to is to pray to God and hope for his forgiveness and to take extra precautions. In the poem when the Mariner kills the albatross and hangs it around his neck, that’s when everything starts to go wrong. Everyone on the ship but the Mariner ends up dying, with their eyes open looking directly at him. When the Mariner began to pray because he had no one to turn to, no words would come out of his mouth. Until he started to feel sympathetic for what he had done wrong, that’s when he was able to pray again. When you do something wrong, God can only look down and hope that you’ll make the right decision next time something is done wrong. During the time that the Mariner was telling his story, the wedding guest had chills and was starting to get scared. As you can tell, the Mariner’s story was just like any other story. It had problems, fright and dilemmas in the beginning, but finished with a happy ending.
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