Deconstructionism Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Deconstructionism views “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” through a different approach which unveils new ideas to current readers. Under deconstructionist thought, people are able to reconsider their own language. Susan Eilenberg traces how the Mariner’s tale does not have a source in order to illustrate how language does not have one set meaning or interpretation. She states that “An alien spirit thus comes to inhabit the body of the Mariner’s speech, which…must be regarded as enclosed in invisible quotation marks” meaning that “The tale that comes out of his mouth is not his” (Eilenberg 286). Readers, like the Wedding-Guest, fear the Mariner because they see that the story he tells does not come from within him. Someone, or something, else