The difference between the punishment of the mariner and that of his crew is the crew all died in an instance and the mariner was left among his dead crew. For example, in “With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, / They dropped down one by one.” (PIII, ST17) shows how vividly the mariner experiences about two hundred deaths on his ship. I believe the mariner’s punishment was just; however, if you consider it a punishment. One may look at it and say this event is a blessing because the mariner did not die while all of the men died, while others can say this is a punishment because he had to suffer watching about two hundred men dying while looking at him. Pertaining to the question, I believe the punishment was just because the mariner killed a harmless
Was there ever a time when people did not break the law? The Elizabethan Era was one of the most known periods of English history. Being known for its great success in change and discovery, it was also remembered for its violent and brutal times. A subject that many people were interested in from this era was the crime and punishment. As people looked back the crime and punishment of the era, there were three factors that stood out from the construction of its history. They were: the crimes that were committed, the people who committed them, and the punishments they received. From much research on Elizabethan crime, punishment, and people, researchers discovered that the crime and punishment during the era certainly was not ordinary and sometimes
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines accountability as: “the quality or state of being accountable; especially: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one 's actions. Accountability is one the most important aspects in the military and civilian life style. Holding Marines accountable for their actions and having every Marine and piece of gear assigned to you accounted for is required at all times. It ensures the safety and stability of all the Marines.
Within the United States Marine Corps, Marines are held to the highest responsibility of duty and throughout daily living, they are seen as all well rounded personnel who perform tasks and missions with honesty and truthfulness. A Marine that shows he or she has honesty and truthfulness is seen as having proper integrity and is capable of being in an environment that requires one to perform a task that one believes to be right and agree with moral principles. A Marine should always show the importance of having integrity from boot camp, to its relation in the Marine Corps, and in combat scenarios.
The “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” is the story of a gruff, grumpy, and old sailor. In the story he tells people of a wedding. When he suddenly killed an Albatross on a voyage for no reason at all. The Albatross that was shot was innocent. The Mariner ended up returning for a big punishment, which he said
In his novel Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys, Dr. Victor M. Rios aims to demonstrate the catastrophe of criminalization, the flops of using cruel and humiliating punishments that attempt to “‘correct’ and ‘manage’ marginalized youths” (p. 23), and to display the consequences that these practices will have on the paths that teenagers take. He does this by documenting parts of his experience in observing forty boys of Black and/or Latino who are “heavily affected by criminal justice policies and practice” (p. 8). Then, he clarifies how these flaws impacted the boys in these situations. The aim of this essay is to summarize Dr. Rios’ observations and analyze and critique the primary arguments made in the book.
Samuel Coleridge was an amazing poet. Many of his poems have a crazy, mystical feeling to them. This, for the most part, is because he was usually high on drugs when he wrote his poems. His poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is the poem that brought about many popular, widely written-about topics. The movies, The Pirates of the Caribbean, come from this poem. The whole idea of people being dead, but still, somehow, able to function comes from this poem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most influential poems of the English language. A sailor tells a story to a young wedding guest. Here is a brief summary: the sailor was on a ship which got caught in a current, and carried to the far south, becoming trapped in ice. After a long time, an albatross showed up, and mysteriously, the ice gave way for the ship to escape and sail north. The mariner made a big mistake. He says in his story, “With my crossbow, I shot the albatross.” When they got to the equator, they hit the doldrums, where there was no wind to push the ship any further. The superstitious sailors assumed that it was because the mariner had shot the albatross. A mysterious skeleton ship came along, and death took the whole crew, but the man who had shot the albatross. The dead bodies kept staring at him. After a while, when he was about to die of dehydration and starvation, the sailor started to appreciate and respect nature. The albatross, which had been hung around his neck, fell off into the sea. It started to rain. The winds picked up. The sailor would be free, finally. Except, he needed the crew to help work the ship. They woke up and helped move the sails and steer the ship back home. When he reached the harbor, the souls all le...
Through The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge has created a masterpiece. This epic reworks the ballad form so that it comes alive and speaks to the Romantic Age, breathing a story as strange and delightful, mystical and wonderful as the mystery of life itself. The raw power of the language, the startling speed at which it hurls you along and the arresting questions of the poem fill your spirit with wonder at the operation of nature and the awesome mystery of evil.
According to Brooks, punishment can be described in four parts. (1) Punishment must be for breaking the law. (2) Punishment must be of a person breaking the law. (3) Punishment must be administered and imposed intentionally by an authority with a legal system. Lastly, (4) Punishment must involve a loss. Brooks states, “where there is no crime, there is no punishment.” This simply means that all four parts must be fulfilled to count as punishment.
The character of the Mariner can seen similar to that of Victor Frankenstein, specifically when he is planning to create the creature without taking in consideration the possible negative outcomes. Frankenstein is seen determined to finish his project, and disregards the fact that his creation may break the rules of nature. To Frankenstein, “life and death appeared to [him as] ideal bounds, which [he] should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.” Frankenstein believing it is his responsibility to “pour a torrent of light into our dark word”, gives the impression that he thinks of himself as a godly figure, rather than a human who makes mistakes. His “godly” idea of science being more powerful than nature is
ABSTRACT: Both utilitarians and the deontologists are of the opinion that punishment is justifiable, but according to the utilitarian moral thinkers, punishment can be justified solely by its consequences, while the deontologists believe that punishment is justifiable purely on retributive ground. D. D. Raphael is found to reconcile both views. According to him, a punishment is justified when it is both useful and deserved. Maclagan, on the other hand, denies it to be justifiable in the sense that it is not right to punish an offender. I claim that punishment is not justifiable but not in the sense in which it is claimed by Maclagan. The aim of this paper is to prove the absurdity of the enquiry as to whether punishment can be justified. Difference results from differing interpretations of the term 'justification.' In its traditional meaning, justification can hardly be distinguished from evaluation. In this sense, to justify an act is to say that it is good or right. I differ from the traditional use and insist that no act or conduct can be justified. Infliction of punishment is a human conduct and as such it is absurd to ask for its justification. I hold the view that to justify is to give reason, and it is only a statement or an assertion behind which we can put forth reason. Infliction of pain is an act behind which the agent may have purpose or intention but not reason. So, it is not punishment, but rather statements concerning punishment that we can justify.
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain”(Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Exactly what Samuel Taylor said was what he did, he let the reader use his imagination to figure out what the Albatross is throughout the story of the Mariner. Due to Samuels ways of writing his pieces of work there are many interpretations as to what the Albatros is, either good or evil, or what his significance is. Many events happened throughout this piece of work by Coleridge and in every single one the albatross is involved, Such as when the he is able to sleep or able to drink water after it has fallen off, Showing that the Albatross was a major factor in the plot of this story. The Significance of the Albatros can be seen in the events it is connected to, such as, the albatross bringing the wind or creating the fog, it is a substitute as a cross or a curse for killing it, and it falling off of the Mariner's neck.
There are many explanations for what punishment characterises. For Emile Durkheim, punishment was mainly an expression of social solidarity and not a form of crime control. Here, the offender attacks the social moral order by committing a crime and therefore, has to be punished, to show that this moral order still "works". Durkheim's theory suggests that punishment must be visible to everyone, and so expresses the outrage of all members of society against the challenge to their collective values. The form of punishment changes between mechanic (torture, execution) and organic (prison) solidarity because the values of society change but the idea behind punishing, the essence, stays the same - keeping the moral order intact not decreasing crime. Foucault has a different view of the role or function of punishment. For Foucault, punishment signifies political control. His theory compares the age of torture with the age of prison, concluding that the shift from the former to the latter is done due to changes in society and new strategies needed for the dominance of it by the rulers. Punishment for Foucault is a show of power first brutal and direct (torture), then organised and rational (prison). Punishment does not get more lenient because of humanitarian reasons but because the power relations in society change.
I think that the Mariner was jealous, and slightly embarrassed, by this seabird’s ability to lead and control his crew. Whereas the Mariner worked for his position on the ship, the albatross landed and instantly won the crew’s attention and approval. This is exhibited in lines 63-66, where it says, “At length did cross an Albatross,/ Through the fog it came;/ As if it had been a Christian soul,/ We hailed it in God’s name.” It is plausible that the crew began to think more highly of the albatross’s guidance than that of the Mariner. While the Mariner led his ship into an icy storm, the albatross seemed to lead them out of the fog.
As the ancient Mariner described his adventures at sea to the Wedding-Guest, the Guest became saddened because he identified his own selfish ways with those of the Mariner. The mariner told the Guest that he and his ship-mates were lucky because at the beginning of their voyage they had good weather. The mariner only saw what was on the surface -- he did not see the good weather as evidence that Someone was guiding them. Also, when he shot the Albatross, the Mariner did not have any reason for doing so. The Albatross did nothing wrong, yet the Mariner thought nothing of it and without thinking of the significance of the act, he killed the bird. At this, the Guest was reminded of how self-absorbed he, too, was, and the sinful nature of man. At the beginning of the poem he was very much intent on arriving at the wedding on time. He did not care at all about what it was that the Mariner had to tell him; he did not want to be detained even if the Mariner was in trouble. Instead, he spoke rudely to the mariner, calling him a "gray-beard loon", and tried to go on his own way.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798 along with three other pieces of work to create his famous Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth. The ancient Mariner is an old man whom has suffered a great tragedy, but managed to survive. The tragedy being he watched 200 of his companions die right before his eyes and then come back again. This is when he was cursed, the ancient Mariner was cursed for shooting an albatross. That is the point that everything turned for the worst for the ancient Mariner. In Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the Mariner must deal with his penance, a young man is stunned and becomes wiser, but sadder, and there is a lesson to learn from the entire story.