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We haven’t covered every element of this genre. Instead, we hope this guide will provide a springboard to help you plan and to get you and your students thinking about the text in more detail.  \nOverview – a crime of some magnitude and its consequences  \nCentral to the story Coleridge tells through the Mariner is a crime which is so terrible it disturbs the spirits from the land of mist and snow, who then seek vengeance on the man who shoots the albatross. This event, which happens in Part 1 of the narrative, is referred to in all seven parts. The consequences of the Mariner’s crime are used by Coleridge to structure the text. The mariner's action of shooting the albatross is the catalyst for the disasters that befall him and his crew. After this, all aspects of his behaviour mark him as a criminal experiencing guilt and remorse. Like Macbeth, he feels his actions have cut him off from God and he cannot pray: “I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;  \nBut or ever a prayer had gushed,  \nA wicked whisper came, and made  \nMy heart as dry as dust”.  \nHe feels the agony of his isolation; he cannot appreciate nature and is disgusted by the water snakes which he calls 'slimy things' . Later on his journey, although he is able to bless the ' happy living things' and in the 'self-same moment' is able to pray, his agony does not end. When he meets the holy Hermit, he begs to be shriven and at the end of the poem, his actions lead him to wandering the land like Cain.  \nTransgression  \nThe Mariner clearly transgresses against nature and the life force (the 'One Life'principle): in shooting the bird he disrupts universal order. The Mariner and the crew could also be said to transgress when they go on their voyage of discovery (they 'were the first that ever burst into that silent sea') as they are pushing the boundaries, perhaps like Frankenstein, playing God. In both respects the Mariner could be said to be committing crimes against God. In a sense, he worships himself as a false God – breaking another of the Ten Commandments. The  \nshooting of the albatross (the Christian soul) could also be seen as an allegorical murderer of Christ. The Mariner also breaks the 'social laws' of the ship which demand that men work together, eat together and pray together – activities shared, and presided over, by the albatross until the Mariner randomly shoots it.  \nMoral Framework  \nThe story has a moral framework, a typical feature of crime writing, in which the Mariner has to learn the enormity of his crime. The text itself supports a good, obedient life and condemns those who challenge or disrupt moral boundaries. The Mariner is condemned for his bad actions and he learns his lesson to be a God-fearing citizen, one who goes to church with others in the religious community and bends his will to the great father. The wedding guest also becomes a wiser man 'the morrow morn', as he too learns a moral lesson.  \nSettings  \nThe setting for the crime is a remote place, the South Pole, far away from civilisation. But other settings are also relevant to the crime story: the ship and the ocean, the equator, the Mariner’s home country, the wood where the hermit lives and the church – the backdrop for the whole story, reinforcing and moral and religious framework.  \nGuilt  \nThe Mariner’s guilt is heard through the voice that delivers the narrative, and after the shooting of the albatross, the poem’s story focuses on the Mariner’s recognition that he has 'done a hellish thing' . He stops the wedding guest because he is filled with a 'woeful agony' which assaults him from time to time. His guilt drives him to tell his tale and he explains at the end that the recurring need to unburden his guilt is the pattern of his life: his heart will burn until his ghastly tale is tol","cbCaitdY6ohMAnrr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitdY6ohMAnrr","pdf",143673,"English","# Elements of crime writing\n## Overview – a crime and its consequences\n## Transgression\n## Moral framework\n## Settings\n## Guilt\n## Violence\n## Motives and their absence\n## Pursuit of the criminal\n## Punishment and confession\n## Victims","[{\"question\":\"What central crime drives the narrative in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?\",\"answer\":\"The Mariner shoots the albatross, an act so terrible it disturbs spirits from the land of mist and snow. The event becomes the catalyst for disasters that befall him and his crew.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text present transgression and its wider meaning?\",\"answer\":\"Transgression is framed as violating nature and the life force, disrupting universal order. 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