Monday, June 4, 2012

Rime of the ancient Mariner

What characteristics of romantic literature are evident in “The Rime of the
   Ancient Mariner”?  (5 “I”s) Provide specific examples.  

The characteristics that are evident in the rime of the ancient mariner are intuition and imagination. The imagination aspect is the most evident, it is displayed in about every sentence that escapes the crazy old mans mouth. He spins a crazy tale with sea monsters and freaky demons. Foul acts that he committed forced his shipmates into an unbelievable horror story with death and nightmares of life and death. He shoots an albatross that evidently caused the wind to blow, after it was dead so they stopped moving. The men on his ship hung the albatross across his neck so all would know of his deeds. The crew and the old man quickly experienced dehydration he watched them die but for some reason he didn't die alongside them, i believe he experienced hallucinations and that was the only reason this story existed.
The hierarchy of needs ties in with all aspects of the hunger games, The things like Physiological needs are the most basic and yet the most common in this story. throughout the story you hear how everyone is starving and doesn't have good places to live, the people are devoid of almost every level of maslows hierarchy of needs. None of the pyramid applies to them because they have neither esteem or safety, their reasons for belonging are non-existent. their every right and reason for existence has been stripped from their already depraved lives, they don't fall under the pyramid that maslow created so what do they stand for, what can they be qualified as?