The Dungeon - Key Quotes
- Created by: @Josh_Stride
- Created on: 06-06-15 15:33
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2. 'Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and dissonant thing ... His angry spirit healed and harmonised By the benignant touch of love and beauty.' Is Coleridge's summation that nature should be used in the rehabilitation of prisoners.
- False, Coleridge didn't believe in rehabilitation.
- False, Coleridge believed that religion was the best way to rehabilitate prisoners.
- True. Although the Romantic movement did also advocate religion as a tool for rehabilitating prisoners.
- False, it simply supports the romantic belief that nature posses restorative powers, Coleridge did't believe in its use to rehabilitate prisoners.
3. 'Merciful God?' can be seen as ironic because...
- All of these things.
- It ambiguously extends the previous question whilst subtly questioning god's status as omni-benevolent.
- Coleridge's use of punctuation questions god's mercy.
- Coleridge's use of lexicon and punctuation reminds a religious audience - at the time - that a system based on the bible is entirely devoid of God and religious teachings.
4. In the second stanza, Coleridge talks directly to nature; personifying it. Which of the following quotes would best support the argument of Pantheism?
- 'Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;'
- 'O nature!'
- 'Healest thy wandering and distempered child'
- 'Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters'
5. What quote would support the Romantic belief that regardless of a person's actions, they are entitled to a certain level of basic human kindness. This quote also expresses a concern for the punishment than an individual would undergo for their crimes
- 'Loathsome plague-spot;'
- 'Is this the only cure? Merciful God?'
- 'and what if guilty?'
- '... most innocent, perhaps'
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