Archetypes In Princess Bride

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Types of archetypes: End of childhood/Loss of innocence
The movie Princess Bride by Rob Reiner presents a journey though tragedy. In the beginning, Wesley the young boy in the movie is naïve, innocent, and he is in love with princess Buttercup. He is not from a rich family as the princess so he leaves to make money so he can marry the love of his life Buttercup. On the way he is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts, where he had to suffer a lot. However Wesley survives the torture and become one of them, a lower pirate. That’s when his character changes and loss of innocence appears. He no longer stay the same naïve guy instead learn all the evils things that people are capable of. His character describes loss of innocence because he was not

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