“There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with’t” (I, ii, 462-64) Miranda is the polar opposite of her father. She is infatuated with the idea of other humans. Where Prospero conjures up a storm to shipwreck the people, Miranda says she would have drained the ocean so that the tragedy never happened to them. She is very selfless and kind of naive. I believe this is because she has been so sheltered all of her life, by only seeing her father and Caliban. Her limited social interaction increases her curiosity especially when these foreign people reach the island and are so much like her, but also vastly different and proper. This contributes to how she falls in love with Ferdinand, because he is the first new person she has met, and she is in love with the idea of something or somewhere new. She also believes him to be beautiful because she only has Caliban, an ugly tortured slave, to compare him to. She is very naive to think that just because he looks nice, that means his character is nice. This is because she hasn’t been exposed to the “real world” per say, and doesn’t know the terrible things people can do. She also may make this connection, because Caliban is ugly, and tried to do an awful thing to her, by attempting to rape her. Miranda takes this stranger’s side against her own father that she has known her entire life, which attests to her naiveness since she is only 15.
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