Miranda

Question 1

Miranda is established as an empath - “I have suffered with those that

Answer 1

I saw suffer”

Act 1 SCene 2: Miranda

Question 2

“Miranda’s pity must be innate since

Answer 2

there is no-one to teach it to her” Tanner

Question 3

“I’ll bear your

Answer 3

logs a while”

act3 scene 1

Question 4

2010 Helen Mirren movie Miranda appears dressed in what colour?

Answer 4

white!!!! (more feminine and innocent)

Question 5

Jacobean women

Answer 5

• expected to be completely subservient and reliant on a male figure (her innocence)
• seems to subvert this as she shows a sense of emotional awareness (empathy)

Question 6

“Prospero uses Miranda as an unwitting

Answer 6

player in his political revenge” Leiniger

Question 7

“so perfect and

Answer 7

so peerless”

act 3 scene 1

Question 8

“non

Answer 8

pareil”

Act 3 Scene 3 - Caliban to Stephano

Question 9

subservience

“I am your wife if you will marry me; if not,

Answer 9

I’ll die your maid…I’ll be your servant”

Act 3 scene 1 - Kembler (1882) thinks this is an illustration of “perfect devotion and humility of the true womanly nature”

Question 10

what does Miranda call her virginity?

Answer 10

“my modesty, my jewel in my dower”

Act 3 SCene 1 - awareness of her disenfranchisement?

Question 11

“Oh my father! I have broke

Answer 11

your hest to say so”

Act 3 Scene 1: Miranda believes she has deceived Prospero by telling Ferdinand her name (he’s actually watching though)

Question 12

“it could be argued that Miranda’s freedom is

Answer 12

entirely illusionary” Brett

Question 13

“How many goodly creatures there are! O brave new world that

Answer 13

has such people in it”

Act 5 Scene 1

Question 14

RSC 2017 Miranda and Prospero’s relationship

Answer 14

dodges the carress of Prospero and keeps her distance initially

Question 15

Globe 2013 Miranda and Prospero’s relationship

Answer 15

Prospero stands on a higher level than Miranda, showing the moral ambiguity of their dynamic