Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
He used a brighter palette than is normally used. He combined blues and pinks through the sky and some mountains in the back echoing the colors. Then he painted the suit of the men in a dark green, classical German attire.
What is the color palette?
remorse, regret.
What feeling did both Frankenstein and the mariner felt after suffering concequences for their actions
The Old Mariner
Who killed the Albatross ?
It uses washes of color because we can see the values(add lightness and darkness through a color) throughout the painting.
What brushstroke technique is used?
They both showed the highs in nature. Exotic places in Frankenstein and the symbolism of the albatross as a "majestic christian soul"
How are they both related to the Sublime?
The naked men and the naked woman
Who were in the rescue boat?
It is realistic since it has parts various landmarks from the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony in southeastern Germany.
Is the painting realistic? Like a Illustration? Is it dreamy?
even though they did different things, it has the same symbolic meaning. They felt regretful because, they both challenged god, one by taking life and the other by creating it.
Why did they both had a feeling of remorse even though they did different things?
The male represented Death and the Female represented nightmare of the living in the death.
What did the people in the rescue boat represent?
Superiority of nature
Minusculence of men in nature
What are the themes of the painting?
The mariner and the tripulation where imprisoned in the middle of the sea in their ship, while Frankenstein was imprisoned inside his own head, to avoid interaction with the outside.
How is imprisonment represented in both stories
That he had to see all of his tripulation die in front of his eyes the same way that he killed the albatross.
What was the mariners punishment and what was the condition he had to keep on living?
In the painting it shows how nature is superior and that men are less. While in Frankenstein a men Victor tries to defy nature by creating a monster and is cursed by its action in the rest of his life.
Relation between Frankenstein and the theme of the painting.
In both Frankenstein and the Ancient mariner they challenge god by giving or taking life. They both were cursed and paid consequences for their actions.
How did both the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein relate with god/nature as theme?
Religious, Nature/God, God Complex, Nature superiority
What themes were in the ancient mariner?