 Let's look at the character of Miranda. Now in the play The Tempest, Miranda is prosperous innocent younger daughter. Now she arrived on the island when she was three years old so she barely remembers her dad's former life or even her former life being the daughter of the Duke of Milan which was prosperous former title before they fled. Now on the one hand, because she is so removed from society because remember that they've lived on the island for 16 years when the play begins, since she's so removed from society she's not really around other women. Therefore she doesn't really learn any of the norms that go with being a woman for instance, being less straight talking, a bit more passive. In fact she is the one when she meets and falls in love with Fernand Ferdinand. She asks him to marry her because she's unaware of all of these social norms whereby a woman is supposed to be very coy, very passive and it's up to the man to take charge according to society at the time and request the woman to marry them. Now also bear in mind that of course the only person she really knows on the island is Prospero as well as Caliban and Ariel. So when she also does meet the other crew members at the end of the play, she is amazed at just how beautiful mankind really is, okay? So whilst on the one hand she is presented as very innocent, on the other hand she also doesn't seem very typical of women at the time so Elizabethan women during Shakespeare's time because she's very straight talking and she doesn't really have any of these ideals that society would have taught to her if she had grown up in Milan. Now of course if you're writing about the tempest for your coursework or exams you may be required to know lots about Miranda. Therefore I have prepared all the quotations that you need to bear in mind relating to her character if you're studying her or even characters related to you or themes related to gender for your coursework or exams. So I'll go over all of these key quotations and the word love analysis you can do when you're writing about the quotes. So let's start with the first quote that Miranda says. So this is in the play when she learns that it's her father who caused the shipwreck due to his magical powers, Prospero, caused the shipwreck and she states, and we can see here she feels a lot of sympathy for the king of Naples, Antonio and all the people that are on this ship. She states, if by your art my dearest father you have put the wild waters in this role, lay them. Now what she's saying here is dad if it's you that's caused this massive, massive, terrible, terrible weather on the sea please calm it down. I don't want these guys to die. So of course here we can see that she's very innocent. She also doesn't understand the treachery and the betrayal that her father suffered at the hands of his brother Antonio and the king of Naples which led to them being on the island in the first place. So here we can see she's quite innocent but also she's also very good. She doesn't want to see any harm on people. Now the word love analysis you want to do for this quotation is firstly the alliteration of W and wild waters. This is describing the really tempestuous seas. Remember tempest is just any terrible weather. And the other word love analysis you want to do to describe just how violent the sea is is on a matter of pure raw, okay? Now the second quotation from Miranda's character is when she meets a Ferdinand and because don't forget that the only other human beings that she's around are her father but also Caliban and Ariel who are also supernatural creatures. Now she is really amazed when she meets Ferdinand and at first she thinks he's a spirit. She states, I might call him a thing divine for nothing natural or ever so so noble. So here we can see that she has instantly fallen for Ferdinand, she thinks he's really amazing in his appearance, very attractive to him but also she thinks he's a spirit, okay? Now the word love analysis you want to do here in terms of talking about how quickly she falls for Ferdinand, how amazed she is by his appearance is firstly the metaphor divine. Also you want to focus on the alliteration of N in nothing and natural and the sibilance of S in so so. So here we can see that she is just amazed, she is dazzled by the appearance of Ferdinand hence why she falls in love with him really quickly. The third quotation to bear in mind for her character is when she states and it's clear that she really has never met any other woman, okay? Because she's grown up on this island, she states, I do not know one of my sex, no woman's face to remember and I've added ellipses here. Now bear in mind in terms of word love analysis you want to look at the word sex and women's which is to do with gender so these two words belong to the semantic field of gender and of course here it's made really clear to us that she's never met any other woman and the only other woman's reflection she's ever seen is her own face in a mirror. The other quotation you want to bear in mind is of course this is when she proposes to Ferdinand, okay? She makes it really clear to Ferdinand that she is really in love with him and she states, I would not wish any companion in the world but you. So now here what she's just basically saying is she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life with anyone else but Ferdinand. Now the word love analysis you want to do here and of course also this plays into Prospera's desire for and this is part of his overall scheme to get back at the king of Naples, Alfonso and by uniting his son with his, or rather uniting Alfonso's son with Prospera's own daughter. This is part of his scheme, okay? And Miranda obviously falls in love as does Ferdinand, okay? Now the word love analysis you want to do here is the alliteration of W and would wish and the hyperbole in the world, okay? So of course here we can see that Miranda has fallen madly in love with Ferdinand. The other quotation for her character is of course this is when now she basically proposes to Ferdinand, okay? Going totally against what social expectations would be of women's role in Shakespearean society, bear in mind women. During that time contextually works for her to be very passive, very docile. It was down to the man to propose. However, here we can see that Miranda is the one that actually takes the initiative to propose to Ferdinand, which is really interesting. Now, the word love analysis you want to do here and the quotation is when she states, I'm your wife, if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. Now here, what she's basically saying is, if you will marry me Ferdinand, I'm gonna be your wife. If not, I'm basically gonna die a single because a maid during that time was a single lady. Now, word love analysis is firstly the repetition of the possessive pronoun your, okay? This is to talk about how she is willing to be Ferdinand's wife. However, you also want to focus on the oxymoron of wife and maid, okay? So the words wife and maid bear in mind that maid, this is not maid in the sense of cleaning up your house or anything, a maid during this time contextually was a woman who was unmarried, okay? So of course, a wife is a woman who's married versus a maid who's a woman who's unmarried. Hence, this is oxymoron. And she's just basically saying, so Miranda is saying here that she can't love any other man if Ferdinand doesn't take her as his wife. She's just gonna stay single forever, okay? Now, the final quotation is when she now meets all the other members of the crew, she's a maid. She can't believe just how beautiful humankind looks like, okay? And this is showing more her innocence. She states, how many godly creatures there are here? How beautiful mankind is. Now here, word love analysis, we can see she's speaking in exclamatory sentences. She's so amazed and dazzled to see all of these men. So she states how many godly creatures are there here as well as how beautyous mankind is, but also the metaphor godly creatures to talk about humankind and these men, this shows that she really, really admires the beauty of human beings, okay? So that's it when it comes to understanding the character of Miranda in the play The Tempest.