CONTEXT QUESTIONS
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself
Salarino
Your mind is tossing on the ocean,
There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curt'sy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
(i) Who speaks these words? To whom are these words spoken to? What
has the person just narrated that makes the speaker say that his mind
is tossing on the ocean?
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Answer:
The passage is from the book, The Merchant of Venice Act-1, scene-1.
Explanation:
1) Salarino speaks these words to Antonio.
On hearing Antonio’s explanation, his friend, Salarino tries to diagnose the disease. He guesses that Antonio is sad because he is worried about this merchant-ships gone into different directions on the sea.
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