Watch the sailors soul zoom out of their body. They personified death, and the ship, and life and death.
100
Name a shift in the first Part (remember they are at a wedding).
The mariner talking to the wedding guest then back to the story.
100
Analyse: The wedding, the ship sailing through the ice, the albatross, and the death of the albatross.
That the journey was long and cold, that the tale is more important than the wedding, and the bird was not that important to the mariner.
100
Gothic Elements:
-Sorrow:
-Setting: darkness, fog and mist, ice
-Death: the crew dies, we meet death and life in death, and when the albatross dies.
-Isolation: mariner in the ocean stuck with his thoughts
-Overemotional: fear
100
One word for tone in part one:
Interest, informative
200
Repetition about water:
Water Water everywhere, nor any drop to drink
200
Name a Shift in the Second part of the Story (remember they are on the ship).
The ship going to the South pole.
The ship going to the middle ocean.
200
The bright sun, and the dead bird head.
That the crew is vengeful? The sail was boring and they didn’t talk.
200
Paralleles
Isolation
Death: mom, elizabeth’s mom also
Darkness
Fear
Goal: to get others to avoid making the same mistakes
200
One word for tone in Part two:
Scary, Death, isolation
300
Repetition (Hint: about a boat, and is most famous saying from story)
A sail, A sail
300
Name a shift in the fourth part (remember death is on the boat)
Death coming on his boat
Then the wedding guest getting scared.
300
The woman who’s beautiful but death with her
Death is a beautiful tragedy.
300
In what way is Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the Monster similar to killing an albatross?
The monster is a burden that Frankenstein had to deal with. He wanted to make something and be the father of something. He wanted to be a creator. When he made Frankenstein his burden of making a species or person is taken care of . The albatross is a burden that the mariner has to deal with, that is why he hangs it around his neck. When his burden is taken care of, the albatross falls off his neck.
Exploring uncharted territory.