Jeanne C I wanted to illustrate the toll of the experiences Miranda has gone through because of conflicts that are outside of her control that she is still a fundamental part of. This two part drawing is a conceptual draft of what this might look like. I began with the idea that she often serves as a mediator figure from the beginning of the play, calming her father's more violent acts of magic and trying to maintain the peace in the opening of Act 1 Scene 2, telling him "If by your art, my dearest father, you have/ Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them". Prospero pushes her into a relationship with Ferdinand without her knowledge and meddles in her life for his own ulterior motives and goals, with the dashed 'strings' on Miranda in the drawing on the left symbolizing her confinement to the island with Prospero and the control he exerts over her. She gets something close to a 'happy ending', with her father choosing to forgive, something Miranda has been trying to work towards throughout the play. As a result, she gets a life with Ferdinand and more people. She is still following the path her father willed for her, and the play's happy resolution comes at the cost of her naiveté. The second frame shows Miranda in muted colors that blend more into the background, with this new 'peace' in similar bright yellows that highlighted her in the first. Now, the yellow tones are still slightly shown on her skin, but come from this new 'peace', rather than herself. However, given that she's no longer confined to the island or under the same pressures to calm her father, she is able to help hold and maintain the play's resolution by marrying Ferdinand and continuing to support Prospero.
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