1'Good wombs have borne bad sons.'
1:2; Miranda's analysis precedes Prospero's similar analysis of 'nature v. nurture' regarding Caliban, showing her intelligence as taught by him
2'I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak”
1:2; Miranda recounts her attempts to instil gratitude and servitude into Caliban
3'O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in 't!'
5:1; Miranda's awe at seeing the courtiers after Prospero's revelation of herself and Ferdinand; the curtain is drawn back from her just as it is from them.
4'I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak
1:2; Miranda recounts her attempts to instil gratitude and servitude into Caliban
5'I might call him A thing divine'
1:2; Miranda's reaction to Ferdinand, which is a foil to Caliban's reaction to Stephano, who sees him as something of divinity
6'My husband, then?'
3:1; Miranda's subverts normal social roles of the 17th century by proposing to Ferdinand, as opposed to vice versa
7'Do you love me?'
3:1; Miranda's line to Ferdinand that shows her lack of 'normal' social practices; it also that acts as a foil to one of Ariel's to Prospero, but she gets an answer, whereas Ariel does not
8'If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I'll carry it to the pile.'
3:1; Miranda's subversion of gender roles and assertion of authority over Ferdinand, which is highlighted by the imperative and monosyllabic sentence
9'Miranda's apparent freedom is illusory... all of her actions are secretly approved of [by Prospero.]
Mike Brett - Miranda's extent of freedom
10'The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead And makes my labours pleasures.'
3:1; Ferdinand reminds himself of who his toil is for
11'Prospero surrenders to Ferdinand the pleasure of possessing Miranda.'
David Sundelson - Miranda as a gift
12"How features are abroad I am skilless of, but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you”
3:1; Miranda acknowledges that her supposed value comes from her virginity and not elsewhere
13"O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer."
1:2; Miranda expresses an empathy absent in Prospero, and her words of compassion here are echoed at the end of the play by Ariel
14"You play me false … Yes, for a sore of kingdoms you should wrangle And I would call it fair play."
5:1; Miranda is playful in her and Ferdinand's game of chess; this interaction both acts as symbolic of her now becoming subject to Ferdinand as a husband, and it is also symbolic of Prospero's actions throughout the play