The tempest, lines 9-19: based on the exchange between the boatswain and passengers in these lines, infer how the boatswain feels about his passengers and explain how you can tell. what can you infer about the characters of alonso, antonio, and gonzalo? what evidence supports your inference?

The Tempest written by Wiilliam Shakespeare and first performed in 1611, is the story of an exiled ruler.

Explanation:

In Act I, Scene i, we are introduced with the character "Boatswain" a commoner and the noble characters, whose names are not mentioned but introduced later in the play. The story begins with the characters stuck in the middle of the raging storm. Boatswain and his crew, in the lines 9-19 are trying to save the ship and commands the nobles to go under-deck.

"ALONSO

Good Boatswain, have care. Where’s the Master?

Play the men

BOATSWAIN

I pray now, keep below."

The nobles get offended by the rudeness of the commoner "Boatswain."

GONZALO

Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Boatswain's main motive is to save the ship regardless of who his passengers are.

"BOATSWAIN

None that I more love than myself. You are a councilor. If you can command these elements to silence and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more. Use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our way, I say."

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.