My Favourite Things

there i saw you standing, must have been a holy light

In her room, three tiny paintings depicting mighty ships hang on the wall (originally parts belonging to the background of one single big painting, collected from the pile of miscellaneous furniture Gonzalo had provided her father with twelve years ago before they left Milan. She cut off the bits that interested her most and just reframed them) along with some drawings and attempted diagrams on theme.

Her dad sends Ariel to destroy the fleet approaching the island and she gets so very mad at him. She uses sympathy to justify her anger, which sure, she did feel for the sailors on board and could only imagine how terrifying it must've been for them to be met with such fate. But deep down, she's also pissed because Prospero knows about this fascination of hers. She's mentioned it several times, some days it's all she thinks about, and apparently it didn't even cross his mind that it'd have made her entire year if only she had been allowed to see them from up close, whole, sturdy, the pinnacle of human engineering, defying all natural barriers to reach new horizons- now sinking like pebbles thrown into a lake. Not fair!

Miranda at the very end of the play, surrounded with new people, mayhaps future friends, people who aren't just the two men she's known and lived with her whole life. All of them coming from a world she never had the chance to really get to know, a brave new world (for her)- and then she learns that, thanks to Ariel's magic, the same one that had shattered her dreams to fulfill those wishes just a few hours ago, hope was brought back along with the now ready-to-sail vessels. Once buried beneath the waters, but dug out and fully fixed, like new!