Eleventh International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

Corona Virus menace is a severe concern all over the world. One is blaming another one for the current issue, but no one is sure about who is responsible for creating such crises, and who is really victimized, nature herself or a human being? The answer can be explored in a poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by the English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the poem, the representation of the punishments of the mariner for killing Albatross and today’s Coronavirus outbreak from the part of Mother Nature is no longer segregated phenomena because in both cases Nature is victimized, and when Nature creates the resistance, the human being also becomes the victim of it. The current review scrutinizes the Covid-19 pandemic and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) from an eco-critical viewpoint to reach a conclusion that the recent coronavirus pandemic is a consequence of humanity’s disregard for and mistreatment of nature. Hence, the paper connects Coleridge’s prophetic vision from the poem to understand Coronavirus pandemic, and finally sets the messages towards redemption by applying qualitative and theoretical approaches on the CCCCCCs (Covid-19, Crime, Consequence, Cure, Coleridge, and China) as the fundamental grounds.