N"the lagoon" by joseph conrad, what causes arsat to risk everything? his love for diamelen his hope for a new life his hatred of the ruling class his love for his brother

His love for diamelen

Explanation:

In The Lagoon, by Joseph Conrad, we meet Arsat, a man who is desperately in love with Diamelen. Diamelen is a servant to the Rajah's wife, and Arsat kidnaps her in order to be with her. He risks everything in the process, and ends up losing his brother. However, Diamelen dies towards the end, and Arsat decides to try to avenge his brother's death.

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.