It is a true estimate of Miranda that her appeal lies in her sweet innocence, gentle nature and pure selfless love for Ferdinand. This is seen when Miranda believes that people have perished in the shipwreck and she says “O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer.” She further states, “O the cry did knock against my very heart!” and wishes if “I had been any gou of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth; or ere, it should the good ship so have swallowed and the fraughting souls within her.”

When Miranda meets Ferdinand for the first time, she says, “What is’t a spirit?” She says to her father “Believe me Sir, It carries a brave form; but tis a spirit”, as she had so far only seen her father and Caliban. She takes Ferdinand to be a spirit but Prospero tells her that he is a human being and she falls in love, i.e., love at first sight. She finds Ferdinand to be noble, but is shocked to see her father behave in a strange manner and requests him to be kind and gentle towards him.

Miranda is convinced that Ferdinand is one in whom “Nothing” can dwell in such a temple. When Prospero orders Ferdinand to be obedient to his commands, Miranda pleads for him to her father, “Dear father, Make not too rash a trial of him, for He’s gentle and not fearful.” On being rebuked by her father, she implores mercy on behalf of Ferdinand and says, “Sir, have piti,: I’ll be his surety”. It is an example of her innocence.

She tries to convince Ferdinand by saying, “my father’s of a better nature, sir, than he appears by speech.” When her father says that there are better-looking men in the world than Ferdinand, she says, “My affections are then most humble; I have no ambition to see a goodlier man!”

On seeing Ferdinand carrying logs of wood, against the orders of her father, she goes to meet him and is even willing to carry that for him. She finds the task so hard and laborious that she remorses by saying, “when this (logs) bums I will weep for having wearied you,” and then she asks him to take some rest.

Miranda is an example of innocence and straightforwardness. Her conversation with Ferdinand lacks cunningness and shrewdness. She is overjoyed when told that Ferdinand also loves her, and she considers herself to be very lucky to have his love as a great reward.