Ancient+Mariner

 =ANCIENT MARINER =

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Plot
A wedding guest is captured by a sailor. The guest wants the sailor to put him down. The sailor did so. The wedding guest sat on a stone and could not move because the sailor's eye entranced him. The sailor began to tell the guest his tale. As the sailor (the ancient mariner) begins his tale, the wedding guest tries to escape, but again can't because of the Mariner's eye.

The Mariner and his crew were sailing when a storm came and forced them south. They then found temselves surrounded by fog and ice. Then an albatross came along and led them to safety. Back to the present with the wedding guest, the Mariner begins to look sad. When the guest asks him why he looks like that, the Mariner shamefully admits that he shot the albatross with his crossbow.

The Mariner continues his story and tells of how the crew became angry at him. The fog soon returned. The wind blew the ship into the seas where they became stranded. Their mouths became dry from being so thirsty. So thirsty, that they could not speak. That night the water lit on fire and the fire was green, white, and blue. The Mariner's crew blamed him for what happened but the mariner just hung the albatross around his neck.

In the distance, the crew noticed a ship. To let his crew know about it, the mariner bit his arm to let the crew bit his arm to drnk his blood to yell out about the ship. As the ship came closer, they noticed it was a different ship. It was a ghost ship. On the ship they noticed two skletons named Death and the Nightmare Life-in-Death. The two skeletons rolled a dice and the woman skeleton won and the caused the sun to set and the moon to come out. The entire crew all died one by one except the Mariner and all their souls passed by the Mariner.

The wedding guest admits that he is scared of the Mariner but the Mariner tells him that he is not a ghost.

Slimy creatures then crawled onto the ice and on the ship. The Mariner tried to pray but was discouraged by all the punishment. The moon rose. The water burned red. Snakes neared the Mariner. As the snakes approached the Mariner, the Mariner realized how beatiful they were. The Mariner finally had a chance to pray and the albatross fell from his neck and into the sea.

The Mariner became able to sleep again and it started to rain. The moon was finally able to shine again. Spirits came from the sky and brought his crew back to life.

The guest again tells the Mariner he was scared, but the Mariner told him they were good spirits. The spirits led the ship out of the ice but then again went away. At noon, the Mariner heard two voices from the sky who asked him if he killed the albatross and the other said that he has done his penance but must do more.

The ship was then tugged and the Mariner appeared at his own country. A hermit then came on a boat and the Mariner begged him to forgive him. Once the Mariner told the hermit of what happened to him, the hermit told him that once he has no guilt, he will be forgiven and he must tell others his tale. The wedding guest was one of those people. The Mariner told him that now he loves every creature in the world and the next day, the guest was a "sadder and wiser person"

Similarities to //Frankenstein//
In the novel, //Frankenstein// there are many similarities to the //Rime of the Ancient Mariner//.