Inji Jaber
Miss Silva
English 12
12 January 2016
One Lonesome Road; Two Pathways Romanticism was a literary movement that swept through virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to 1870. Many of the main ideas behind the literary movement of Romanticism can be seen in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and in the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Shelly and Coleridge both created the idea that one should be punished if s/he decides to go against the natural laws of nature. The punishment was that of no other, the loss of loved ones and the imprisonment of one’s soul. The difference between these boastful men is that one has to live with guilt and regret, while the other has become an addict, storytelling being his drug. Despite the small modification of their punishments, both men are left with their lives locked up and rotting because of an action that opposed nature.
Cutting themselves from civilization, both Victor and the Mariner create a prison of their own making. When Victor decided that he had no choice but to create yet another monster, he chooses to be in isolation. Frankenstein sends Henry off to spend his trip in Scotland so he …show more content…
Coleridge paint the idea of the punishments for going against nature. In Frankenstein and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Victor and The Mariner suffer from the loss of close ones to the imprisonment of one’s own humanity. They take separate routes when it comes to the dealing with the pain. One has to hide his story while the other puts it out in the open.
Works Cited
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The Annotated Ancient Mariner. Ed. Martin Gardner. III. Gustar Dore. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Walter James Miller, and Harold Bloom. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus. New York: New American Library, 2000.
Miss Silva
English 12
12 January 2016
One Lonesome Road; Two Pathways Romanticism was a literary movement that swept through virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to 1870. Many of the main ideas behind the literary movement of Romanticism can be seen in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and in the “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Shelly and Coleridge both created the idea that one should be punished if s/he decides to go against the natural laws of nature. The punishment was that of no other, the loss of loved ones and the imprisonment of one’s soul. The difference between these boastful men is that one has to live with guilt and regret, while the other has become an addict, storytelling being his drug. Despite the small modification of their punishments, both men are left with their lives locked up and rotting because of an action that opposed nature.
Cutting themselves from civilization, both Victor and the Mariner create a prison of their own making. When Victor decided that he had no choice but to create yet another monster, he chooses to be in isolation. Frankenstein sends Henry off to spend his trip in Scotland so he …show more content…
Coleridge paint the idea of the punishments for going against nature. In Frankenstein and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Victor and The Mariner suffer from the loss of close ones to the imprisonment of one’s own humanity. They take separate routes when it comes to the dealing with the pain. One has to hide his story while the other puts it out in the open.
Works Cited
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The Annotated Ancient Mariner. Ed. Martin Gardner. III. Gustar Dore. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Walter James Miller, and Harold Bloom. Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus. New York: New American Library, 2000.