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11AELIT Romantics EWR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - insight into selected text
  - - - narrative parallels:
        
        mariner/frankenstein
        
        creating/destroying life
        
        told as a cautionary tale
        
        through a framed narrative
        
        guilt & isolation
    - - biblical allusions
        
        Jesus calms the storm
        
        Pentecost
        
        Original sin/the fall
        
        positions ROAM as a Christian allegory
- - - - The environment in which a text is produced or received. Context can include the general social, historical and cultural conditions in which a text is produced or received or the specific features of its immediate environment.
  - - - British museum's acquisition of the Ramses II statue head
      - the rise and fall of Napoleon
- - - - intertextuality with:
        
        The Bible
        
        Frankenstein
  - - - Frankenstein
      - Establishing intertextuality with Frankenstein. Narrative parallels show the thematic and literal connection between both texts. Insights into moral complexity & ambiguity?
        
        examples
        
        Frankenstein connecting to ROAM
        
        direct links
        
        Victor quoting ROAM
        
        "Like one, that on a lonesome road/ Doth walk in fear and dread,"
        
        Walton's letter to his sister
        
        “I am going to unexplored regions, to ‘the land of mist and snow,’ but I shall kill no albatross.."
        
        narrative resemblance
        
        framed narratives
        
        Shelley's epistolary form- Victor tells his story to Walton
        
        The mariner tells his story to the Wedding-Guest
        
        Victor and the Mariner as reflections of each other
        
        creating life, destroying life
        
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      - BP3
        
        insight: Frankenstein's connection with ROAM challenges the dominant reading of ROAM as a didactic Christian allegory, suggesting that like Victor, the mariner is more haunted than healed: his cautionary tale is more of a curse than a cathartic release. This positions the reader to question the justification of the mariner's punishment, and establishes him as a proto-Romantic anti-hero.
        
        examples/points
        
        the Mariner's redemptive arc
        
        sin, punishment/guilt, repentance, redemption
        
        The parallel of Victor and the Mariner challenges this
        
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        insight Frankenstein brings to roam:
        
        suggests that while actions have consequences, not all of them may be fair or proportionate
        
        Our view of the mariner as a redeemed sinner is challenged, insight highlighting him as more of a proto-Romantic anti-hero
        
        highlights the moral complexity and ambiguity of ROAM and the Mariner
    - - examples
        
        the Albatross as Christ
        
        "And as it were a Christian soul/ We hailed it in God’s name"
        
        Pentecost
        
        "I pass, like night, from land to land; /
        I have strange power of speech;"
        
        Jesus calms the storm
        
        "The harbour-bay was clear as glass,/
        So smoothly it was strewn!"
        
        "And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he/
        Was tyrannous and strong:"
        
        "The ice was all around:/
        It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,"
        
        Original sin
        
        killing the albatross
    - - Original sin
      - Pentecost
      - Jesus calms the storm
  - - - BP3
    - - BP1
    - - BP2?