RP Final

Themes Theme of Suffering and Punishment. Theme of hope. Theme of desperation and depravity Supernatural and horrific theme. Theme of imprisonment and fate.

Theme of Suffering and Punishment.  There passed a weary

time / Each throat was parch’d, and glazed each eye”. “With throats unslanked, with black lips baked, we could nor laugh nor wail”.  “Without a breeze, without a tide”.

Theme of hope.

When the mariner saw another ship approaching

Theme of desperation and depravity The mariner bit down on his own arm to lubricate his throat enough to shout “A sail! A sail”,

Supernatural and horrific theme Approaching ship turned out to be a ghost ship having a lady and her companion, the theme of false hope arises, alongside supernatural elements. For the ship was sailing “without a breeze, without a tide”, and was described as “Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer,”,

Theme of imprisonment and fate.

The mariner observes that Death and Life-in-Death were playing dice for the ship’s crew, “And the twain were casting dice”, to which Life-in-Death announced “The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!” Life-inDeath won the soul of the mariner