describe in detail the first meeting between ferdinand and miranda
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Ferdinand first meets Miranda when his ship runs into a fierce storm and runs aground. He thinks his father and friends have perished at sea and is grief-stricken, until he encounters Miranda and her father Prospero. Ferdinand forgets his sadness and is so wonder-struck at Miranda’s beauty, that he wonders if she is even human. He falls in love with her and lusts for her. He tells her that she is the most amazing beauty he has ever seen and will make her the Queen of Naples.
Ferdinand is the Prince of Naples in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’, while Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, the Duke of Milan who has been banished from his kingdom and cast on board an old, rickety ship.
In the scene where Ferdinand met with Miranda. Ferdinand fall in love with Miranda on their first meeting. When Prospero told Ariel to bring Ferdinand to him. It was all Prospero's plan to make to fall in love to this two young fellows Miranda and Ferdinand.
When Ferdinand first saw Miranda he fell in love with her at that moment, even Miranda felt that too. Miranda too fall in love with Ferdinand when she saw her for the first time.
Ferdinand even decided to make Miranda the queen of Naples.