Last of The Mohicans

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Last Of The Mohicans V. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

There are both similarities and differences between Last of the Mohicans and Rime of the

Ancient Mariner. Both of these tales are considered to be epics. James Fenimore Cooper and

Samuel Taylor Coleridge were both "Romantics." Both were "Romantics" but Cooper was an

"American Romantic" while Coleridge was a traditional "English Romantic." Both were great

stories , but only one was made into a major motion picture. Rime of the Ancient Mariner was

written as a poem, and Last of the Mohicans was written as a story but later composed to a

movie. There are many obvious similarities and differences between the two.

One similarity between Last of the Mohicans and Rime of the Ancient Mariner was, that

in both stories there was a "last man standing." Rime of the Ancient Mariner's last man standing

was the mariner himself. While in the Last of the Mohicans the actual last Mohican was

Chingachgook. The mariner was the last man on the boat alive after the other one hundred

ninety-nine men were killed after two gods rolled dice for their lives. Chingachgook was the last


stay alive. It was settled by the two gods instead of being blown away by muskets or broken into

hear it. It is ironic in this story that the good sailors died young while the mariner committed a

Rime of the Ancient Mariner a lot of these people were just common casualties. Except their fate

Mariner was heartless also but it was like the sailors destiny to die and the mariners destiny to

three examples of gods in this story. The polar spirit was the spirit that punished the mariner for



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