Allusions In The Ancient Mariner

This tell us that both Victor and the Mariner were seeking for knowledge but that knowledge was a danger it only brought tragedies. In the Ancient Mariner’s poem the Mariner is living a nightmare as he watches his crew die while he continues to live. On the other hand Victor ends up watching the people that he loves die. For creating a creature who ask him to create a mate for him but he refuse. This anger the Monster making him take the decision to continue to murder Victor’s love ones. Victor also makes an allusion to the Angel of destruction which is also know as Satan. Before he began telling the events that lead to his misery he tell Captain Walton “Chance-or rather the evil influenced, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father’s door”

Begone, vile insect! or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! and, oh! that I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!” (Shelley 68). He created this creature who he fear when trying to act like god, by acting like someone so powerful he now has to accept the consequences. Another allusion that is being made to Satan is “Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred”(Shelley 93). This, the monster tell, Victor when he is telling his story of what he has gone through, the Monster feel like he is satan and now he wants to make an argument of how he deserve at least to be listen by his creator and wants to persuade him so he can grant his one condition which is to create a mate for him. The Monster also makes an allusion to God he says “Hateful day when I received life!.. Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image” (Shelley