Similarities Between Frankenstein And The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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Solitude can quickly turn into desolation when separated from society. The loneliness spawns other feelings of despair and a lack of will to live. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the setting and lamentations of Frankenstein’s monster and the ancient mariner reveal the woeful results of isolation. The location of the creature and the mariner adds to the depression during the extreme cases of aloneness. The monster, rejected by society, is forced into a setting of isolation in the wilderness. He, residing in nature rather than the buildings of man, says that “the desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do …show more content…

Bearing the pain of loneliness, he says that “I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory” (Shelley, 196). The new sorrows of the creature are intertwined with his want of death, being a less painful option than being a reject. He self-loathingly exclaims "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?” (Shelley, 116). Born into solitude, the monster feels instant misery in existence and would rather be dead than to continue the despair that he was destined for. The mariner also laments over his voyage in the ocean. He tells the wedding guest of his trip and how “So lonely 'twas, that God himself / Scarce seemèd there to be” (Coleridge, 600-601). The pure misery that accompanied this isolation is comparable in the eyes of the mariner to that of hell, relating it to the afterlife. His lack of a will to live is also exemplified when he says that, “Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, / And yet I could not die” (Coleridge, 262-263). The mariner wishes that he could join his dead crewmates rather than be stuck for a week in the ocean isolated from civilization and

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