... connection with the rest of mankind, shunning them for what has been done to him, as if to make them feel the guilt he is feeling. He prefers to make friendship with the spiders and mice with which he shares his cell and he sees himself as "the monarch of each race" following the example of Milton's Satan ("Better to reign ... at the same time killed and brought to life through the actions of the Mariner. Now the Mariner offers knowledge which has been so painful to gain that the wedding guest, after having thought over it during the night, "A sadder and a wiser man, / He rose the morro...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate