2. Miranda. We have seen that the master feeling in Prospero’s soul is his love for his daughter. Is she worthy of so great an affection? Let us draw our answers from the drama.
(a) She is beautiful.
Ferdinand says:
“Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend!”
And:
“O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?”
Caliban says:
“And that most deeply to consider is
The beauty of his daughter; he himself
Calls her a nonpareil: I ne’er saw woman
But only Sycorax my dam and she;
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
As great’st does least.”
Alonzo says:
“Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us,
And brought us thus together?”