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Vol. 5. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, DEC. 1897. No. 3
LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
Miranda.
Shakespeare has portrayed many beautiful, lovable
female characters but it is my opinion he never pictured one
who possessed so truly the purity, virtue, simplicity, beauty
and sweetness of character that ch-iracterize Miranda.
In all of Shakespeare’s works we find a female heroine
of the purest type, and in the Tempest we find Miranda the
only female character, and in her the real beauty of the play.
The different scenes of the Tempest are most diverse in
character; in one the storm and fury of the winds and waters
and the wreck and fight for life by the King’s company and
mariners, in another the mutinous conduct and bloody threat
ening by some of the King’s company, in another the beastly
passion of the drunkards and slaves.