Rhime of the ancient mariner

Rhime of the ancient mariner was in the first edition of lyrical ballads by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The story is about a mariners ship who gets hit by a storm and is driven south. Yet an albatross appears and leads the ship to safety, but the mariner shoots the albatross and angers the crew. Later the ship comes on a ghost ship which contains "death" and "Night mare life in death". This work influenced Mary Shelley and had similar themes. Coleridge and Shelly both emphasize the immense power that nature has over men as well as its natural beauty. Both have religious themes. In an attempt to prove that the albatross is a physical being and not spiritual  he shoots it down. More Illusions to religion with the prayer and kindness and respect to creatures also exist. Another three themes are imprisonment, retribution and act of story telling. Like victor the mariner goes against nature and is disrespectful towards it. Parallelism between Walton and victor is evident, both are about knowledge Victor is addicted to it and knowledge destroy both the mariner and victor. This brings up Prometheus because both went further than humans should go... which lead to their desolation. The actual passage put into Frankenstein is listed below“Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.”
-Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
During both points in the story both are ruined in desolation... Victor had just created the creature and is confused about what to do. He cannot even sleep because he is so distraught about what to do. The ancient mariner is on a ship the is floating through south Atlantic over creatures the mariner is believed in the water. He knows he is alone and is in an emotional state of turmoil.
This brings up an interesting theme Victor is lost in an emotional state and in his mind while that mariner is literally lost in the southern Atlantic
Monsters are surrounding both people, Victors monster is following him around wherever he goes... these monsters also peek at the DeLacey family. The mariner feels that the monsters in the ocean are following him. Victor sort of runs away because he doesn't want to see his monster "creation". Just as the mariner does not want to look back to see the monsters in the water. This, in conclusion, is a slight description of the similarity.
The main base between them that I loved dearly was isolation and desolation. Both went against natures flow and suffered from it, Nature, whether you believe in the creator or not, is the ultimate decider of our fate. A lot of people argue nature vs nurture, but it is a seemingly impossible question. Like chicken and the egg it can be argued both ways.