Heart of Darkness - Innocence and Corruption

Coleridge, Golding and Conrad, in their individual whole kit and boodle, set disclose to look for the themes of sin and botchion in mankind. Is man born ingenuous but corrupted by society? Romanticists believe that children atomic number 18 good and innocent creatures but society corrupts man. We see corrupt individuals in all collar texts but each image has their own story and though there may be similarities evident in these characters, be they all born corrupt, or has society had an influence on them as individuals?\nMan is a autochthonic being, just as primitive as he was at the beginning of time. We atomic number 18 driven by the similar drives and emotions. In song Of the past diddlyshit society has vigour to do with the Mariners later transgression, it is scarce because the Mariner sails away from society, tillage and civilization (the lighthouse) that he becomes a corrupt being. When the Mariner is out at sea, with no weird guidance from the society he liv ed in, he is vulnerable and succumbs to temptation. He kills the Albatross simply because he can but this is a mega crime as he has killed an animal created by perfection we all hailed in graven images name. The Mariner represents everyman, without the restraints of society it is very idle for man to succumb to their primitive side. Through a work of suffering the Mariner repents and begins to rate the sanctity of life, because of this he is redeem by an all gracious God and goes on to bring in and educate others, like the gallant. Coleridge highlights in this text that God is everlastingly there even though man is a sinner.\nColeridge utilise his poetry to explore contrast issues in philosophy and spiritual piety. To support the claim that his imaginative and intellectual forces were, in fact, innate and derived from the natural world, Coleridge linked them to God. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is unmatched among Coleridges important works - unique in its by choice archaic language, its length, its bizar...