Miranda is an innocent, having spent her life on a deserted island. She has never seen other humans outside of her father and Caliban, who is described as monstrous. Therefore, she is amazed and delighted at the beauty of the outward form of the courtiers who have been shipwrecked on the island when she sees them in act 5, scene 1:
Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
Prospero simply replies drily that all of this is new to her. Prospero's
view differs because he has lived in society and can see beneath the outward,
attractive form of men. He realizes that he has been betrayed and faced
attempted murder from the some of the same "goodly creatures" now standing
before him.
We capture Miranda at a moment of wonder, beholding humans before she
realizes that they can be corrupt.
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