O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ‘t!
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1. An astonished Miranda, who has been raised in seclusion on an island with few people, is delighted with the new world she has discovered full of these wonderful people she has met. Miranda’s most famous lines are full of optimism and hope of new beginnings. But as an inexperienced teenager who has led a sheltered life, her "goodly creatures" and "beauteous" comments on seeing Alonso and his courtiers dressed in their finery are somewhat ironic. Some of the people she is meeting have shown themselves to be selfish, disloyal, cruel and murderous.