In addition, Ariel rides "on the curl"d clouds" and Caliban liveson "this hard rock." Caliban and Ariel exist at opposite sides of the spectrum and because of this, they are characters foils to each other. .

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             #3 Describe Miranda. How is she a product of "nurturre rather than "nature"? What values does she represent in the play?.

             The character of Miranda, the daughter of Prospero, symbolizes all that is innocent, pure, and simple. Yet her compassion, as real as it is, also has a certain element of shallowness, or at least inexperience about it. She has lived the majority of her life in isolation, on an island known with her only companionship being that of her father. Growing up on this deserted island, Miranda learns to live and abide by the example set by Prospero. He is her only contact with the humanity and therefore he is her only friend and teacher. She knows no other woman and therefore had no female figure to aid the process of raising her. She is naive and unaware of life"s experiences, having been shielded from the rest of the world. .

             Throughout her life, which began at age three on the island, to the time in which she met the only other human contact, Ferdinand, at age fifteen, she learned many things from her father about life and all its complexities. Living on this island, Miranda is a product of " nurture" rather than that of "nature.".

             The term nurture refers to the upbringing or raising of a child. Miranda"s father is her upbringing. He guides her from her early years on the island all the way through her first meeting of human contact. Miranda had to grow up on a deserted island with no other human contact and having to live by and trust only one person"s point of view. It is hard for us the fathom the idea, but to her it was all she knew. Her trust in her father was unparallel to any other. She is a product of nurture; she had no other choice. Miranda could not be a product of nature simply because she only had her father to look up to, abide by, and learn from, as a result of having no other human contact.