... quickly recognised as an abuse of the church's role, leaving many populations in a state of stark poverty. The theme of death as an eternal punishment for sin is sanctioned in The Bloody Chamber and alluded to in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as the narrator 'wanders the earth in perpetual exile as a form of divine punishment.'51 Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner also presents religion through the dramatisation of 'fundamental Christian sentiments of sin, punishment, repentance and redemption ... , such as the blessed threshold'69. This interpretation posed by critic La...

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