Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime Of the Ancient Mariner is a story about man ability to change the world around him without reason and indifference to the consequences. When the ancient Mariner shot the albatross, ending the wind, a blessing and the fog, a curse. The mariner's lack of consideration of the consequences holds many parells to the modern problems with the enviroment. This holds relevance to the political revolutions happening in the americas and france shortly before it writing and the industrail revolution that started a 3 decades latter. The lack of solidly and consistenly appling one unfifing philisophy.

The mariner has no goal or purpose for shotting the albatross excluding exercising his ability to do so. This brash move This coralates to the political revolutions of America justify the need for representation for no other reason than “natural right”. The revolutions stemmed form lack of representation for taxes; not that tax themselves were represive. Only latter was the reasoning of freedom come to light.

The mariner failure to act with reason is inexorably the reason for the his plight. When he shoot the albatross he failed to do so with reason for his action or its consequences. The mariner's fundamental lack of philosophy. Philosophy being a system of beliefs of that describe existance, consience, etc and a way of reasoning a way to choose an action to achieve are desired result.

There are 8 possible way of view the course of events: the mariner could shoot the albatross or not, the ghost ship could come and the mariner wander for enterinity or not, and wandering for enterinity could be a horrible fate or not. The possibility of shooting the albatross and the ghost ship not coming is going to excluded because I am assuming that there relationship is a if the mariner