Miranda. Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
She is the only female character to appear on stage during the course of the play and is one of only four women mentioned. Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
She was banished to the Island along with her father at the age of three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. She is openly compassionate and unaware of the evils of the world that surrounds her, learning of her father's fate only as the play begins.
There is some speculation that Miranda, along with her husband, Ferdinand, may be intended to represent Elizabeth Stuart and her new spouse, Elector Frederick V, as The Tempest was originally performed for the court of Elizabeth's father, King James, in celebration of the marriage. The Tempest' s second scene begins with Miranda, begging her father to spare the lives of the men at sea.
She's fully aware of the powers Prospero possesses and begs him to cease the storm. In an act of bravery she challenges her father's wisdom, arguing that: Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her. As the scene progresses it is revealed to her that she is, in f
She is the only female character to appear on stage during the course of the play and is one of only four women mentioned. Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
She was banished to the Island along with her father at the age of three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. She is openly compassionate and unaware of the evils of the world that surrounds her, learning of her father's fate only as the play begins.
There is some speculation that Miranda, along with her husband, Ferdinand, may be intended to represent Elizabeth Stuart and her new spouse, Elector Frederick V, as The Tempest was originally performed for the court of Elizabeth's father, King James, in celebration of the marriage. The Tempest' s second scene begins with Miranda, begging her father to spare the lives of the men at sea.
She's fully aware of the powers Prospero possesses and begs him to cease the storm. In an act of bravery she challenges her father's wisdom, arguing that: Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her. As the scene progresses it is revealed to her that she is, in f
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