recipient and the active male role of sender.

The wedding guest in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner functions as the audience to the Mariner's tale. He is mesmerized by the Mariner's narrative of devastation and has no other choice but to sit and to listen to the hypnotic words. The gendered relationship between the narrator and the audience becomes evident in the opening of the story. The teller of this tale, the ancient Mariner, assumes the figuratively male role as the active narrator of a story, as the one who dictates what the audience hears. The audience of the ta

life, he has not experienced the emotional pain of the rejection that he has caused his own creature, whose existence has actually added another life to the number of relationships in Frankenstein's life, to feel. Thus, he experiences even this pain of rejection and isolation from a passive standpoint as he hears it from the creature's story.

Based on this correlation between the wedding guest as the Mariner's audience and the reader as the author's audience, then, Coleridge is able to blatantly present the moral of his poem in the Mariner's farewell to the wedding guest. Since the Mariner's crew cannot be considered a moral authority of any sort because they are inconsistent, capricious, and superstitious, the wedding guest functions as a sort of moral authority to the Mariner's tale. The wedding guest does not appear to make any moral judgments about the Mariner for his deed, but it can be concluded that he does gain some moral understanding of the story because although the reader could stop reading at any point, the wedding guest, who is hypnotized by the tale of devastation, remains through the

The creature's words to Frankenstein emphasize what Frankenstein seems to have neglected in his creation of a human life, that is, the creature is conferring a consciousness, will, and voice upon a scientific discovery. Up to this point, Frankenstein has suffered a great deal of heartache due to the creature's deeds, but he will come to realize through the creature's own story that it has been Frankenstein's own fault for neglect. The creature was not born evil in itself, but due to Frankenstein's misguided actions, it was made evil through human abuse. Also, although Victor Frankenstein has experienced great loss and profound emotional suffering, leading to isolation in his own

the teller-audience roles in this case. Frankenstein's powerlessness against his monster is also a part of the deaths that have occurred among those close to him at the hands of his own creation. Even though he does not know for sure that the destruction of lives was due to the life he created, he has an instinct of guilt and fear from the beginning. He was seemingly unable to prevent the deaths of those whom he loved and thus played a passive role in saving their lives, being able to do nothing but observe in terror. So then, the power that he has relinquished in creating the creature, he is able to exert in telling his

Robert Walton functions as the audience to Victor Frankenstein's narration of devastation and destruction once he has boarded Walton's vessel and been revived. Walton has expressed h

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