The audience is then informed that suddenly, as 'The glorious sun rises', the shipmates come to the conclusion that it was indeed 'the bird // Who (had ) brought the fog and the mist." As the side notes state, by siding with the Mariner, these sailors "(made) themselves complicit in the crime." This fickle nature of these shipmates could be seen as Coleridge's clever attempt to be satirical, challenging authority by bringing to light the fact that everyone is always looking for someone to blame for the world's misfortune, yet we cannot know who he really is is that