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The Princess Bride Characters and Analysis
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The Princess Bride Characters and Analysis
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In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Buttercup’s love, Westley, leaves for America as a young man in search of quick money to start a new life with Buttercup. However, Westley’s journey gets interrupted by pirates, and Buttercup is left to believe Westley is dead. Three years later, Buttercup is kidnapped, and then taken from those captors by another mysterious captor. She finds an opening to escape from him, and unknowingly shoves her long-lost lover down a ravine. Once she realizes who he is, she falls after him, unfazed by the danger she faces. Fearlessly, she descends, wanting only to reach Westley. Goldman even states how Buttercup would have risked anything to be reunited with Westley. By showing Buttercup's intent to be with Westley no matter the obstacle, William Goldman illustrates how love trumps fear. Eventually, Westley and Buttercup are able to escape their foes and be together again.
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Earlier in the book, Buttercup admits to Westley that she loves him.
Even though she is only seventeen, she promises that for her, there is only Westley. Later, Westley comes to say goodbye to Buttercup, and tells her that he loves her back, and has loved her for many years. He also states that he has been working hard for many years, preparing to work extreme hours to earn money for their future. Setting off for America, Westley seeks to find his fortune by working two ten hour jobs a day, saving money wherever he can. With that small fortune, he hopes to buy a farm, send for Buttercup, and provide for the both of them for the rest of his life. Although young, Westley decides to leave and work in an unknown land to provide for the one he
loves. Years later, Buttercup and Westley are reunited, but are being chased by Prince Humperdink, a very successful hunter. Westley concludes that the only path that holds any ounce of success is through the Fire Swamp, a very dangerous swamp with flames, quicksand, and huge carnivorous rodents. Buttercup's immediate reaction is fear, but she soon realizes that living without Westley would be much worse than facing the Swamp. Soon after entering the Fire Swamp, Buttercup falls into a pit of quicksand. Westley quickly ties a piece of vine around his waist and dives into the quicksand to save her. Westley is not afraid of the quicksand and the death it could hold. Instead, he swiftly saves his love from sure death by risking his own life. Even with the risky journey through the Fire Swamp to save time, Westley is captured and Buttercup is forced to prepare to marry the Prince. However, Westley survives the gruesome torture set upon him, not giving in to death because he needed to stay alive, for Buttercup’s sake. After he is saved from the torture, he immediately prepares to raid the castle, equipped with 100+ guards, in order to stop the wedding and save his love. Despite the fact that he is severely outnumbered and extremely weakened, he doesn’t give it a second thought as he attempts the rescue. By interrupting the wedding and making his way to the Royal Chambers, Westley confronts Prince Humperdink. Although not being able to stand on his own, never mind fight, Westley is not fazed, and easily defeats the Prince, with his mere words and threats. After the confrontation, Buttercup and Westley escape their captors together.
Westley is of a humble origin- a farm boy working on Buttercup’s farm. He loves her and she loves him. Whenever Buttercup ask Westley for a favor he replies with “As you wish.” He really means, I love you. However the mystery remains of what had happened to his parents, was he an orphan or did he leave his family. Westley had set sail in the seas to seek out his fortune to have enough money to marry Buttercup. His ship was attacked by Dread Pirate Roberts, which is why everyone assumed Westley was dead for five whole years. Since the love of his life was kidnapped, Westley set off to save Buttercup and on the way he encountered struggles/ trials, helpers, thresholds/tests and helpers along the
“As you wish,” said by the Farm boy,westley, a main character who ties the story of love,romance,and action together. The book The Princess Bride by William Goldman is a story of two lovers, Buttercup and Westley. After Westley dies on a boat by The Dread Pirate Roberts, the King of Florin, Prince Humperdinck, started searching for love. After a visit from the count and countess they decide that Buttercup is worthy of being the queen. Even though Buttercup says she will never love The Prince, she still agrees to the marriage. Soon after Buttercup is introduced to Florin she gets kidnapped by the Turk, the Sicilian, and the Spaniard. They all figure out that they are being followed by the man in black, which leads to the adventure part of the story. In The Princess Bride, William Goldman uses many different archetypes like the damsel in distress, the task, and the magic weapon which are archetypes that have been used for centuries and renders them new to make the story flow together and more interesting.
...tisfy Westley and his needs in order to impress and be good enough for him. However, in the beginning, Buttercup is less susceptible; not concerning herself with Westley at all. Finding out that she loves Westley changes her life. Her transformation from tom-boy to an elegant lady only happens because of Westley; her change has only one purpose and that is to meet up to Westley’s standards. In conclusion, it is clear that The Princess Bride displays a lot of the same issues and conflicts. Whether the characters deal with themselves, others, or the general public, they all grow and develop because of these struggles. Beyond this, the readers of this novel can easily learn a few lessons from the characters of the book. Learning from these lessons, and learning to deal with conflict is a skill that will make a better person out of anybody willing to take the action.
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Throughout the course of our lives we will experience the deterioration of a loved one due to illness or aging. This may cause us to make a choice of how and where we choose our loved one to die. Authors, Carolyn Jaffe and Carol H. Ehrlich, in their book All Kinds of Love, illustrate how the relationships between doctors, patients', family, friends, hospice volunteers, and hospice nurses all play an important role during he patients last days as they try to reach a "good death". In the book's foreword, Rabbi Earl A. Grollman comments on Jaffe's history of nursing experience and states "Her stories bring alive the concerns, the surprises, the victories, the disappointments, the mistakes, the uncertainties, the joys, and the pain that are part of one's dying" (1, p. v).
“In my day, television was called a book” (Reiner). That is what the grandpa says to his grandson after the grandson questions him about reading him a book. The grandpa decides to read his grandson The Princess Bride. A book filled with true love, comedy, action and adventure. Westley works on the farm for his true love, Buttercup. But after Buttercup gets kidnapped by a sicilian, giant, and Spaniard, Westley goes to search for his true love. After Westley battles and defeats all three of her kidnappers, they are reunited. Soon their luck ends after Prince Humperdinck sends Westley to be tortured and takes Buttercup to be his bride. Westley is tortured by Count Rugen in the Zoo of Death. The giant and the Spaniard, we now know them as Fezzik and Inigo, here the screams of Westley and make there way to the Zoo of Death. Fezzik and Inigo help Westley make it to the castle to stop the wedding between Buttercup and Prince Humperdinck. Westley finally reunites with his true love for a happy ever after. In The Princess Bride there are several lessons that are taught throughout the book. The situations that the characters go through can be greatly compared to the situations that humans experience.
The character Westley is considered the hero in The Princess Bride. The story begins with him in the ordinary world, which is working as a farm boy. He falls in love with the girl running the farm, named Buttercup. Westley’s call to adventure is sailing the seas to earn money in order to marry her. A few years pass by, and Buttercup
Satire with a funny twist. In the novel The Princess Bride, William Goldman satirizes both fairy tales and the standard literary process through his characters and their actions. Westley, a poor farmer, falls in love with the far from perfect maiden, Buttercup, but has to sail away in order to find his fortunes. Years later, Buttercup, thinking that Westley abandoned her, is forcibly engaged to Prince Humperdinck, a cruel and calculating man. Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo, three mysterious kidnappers, abduct the princess in hopes of causing war between the great nations of Guilder and Florin. These events and characters mirror those in a common fairy tale, but with many twists to them. The author, William Goldman, uses both his role as the editor and writer to bring the fairy tale to new light, in order to ridicule the traditional literary structure. He is not actually editing his own novel, in fact he is intentionally including annotations that perhaps would normally be part of an editing process, but are included in The Princess Bride to mock tropes of other fairy tales and the literary process as a whole. Through the portrayal of his characters as archetypes and their flaws, in addition to his unorthodox writing style which allows his to annotate directly in the novel, Goldman satirizes both the literary process and the standard fairy tale.
Princess Buttercup’s genuine love for Westley is displayed once she learns of his death, when she vows to never love another. A promise she does not break. Although, her fierce loyalty for Westley does not provide her with similar abilities and powers as her male counterparts. Throughout the film, she shows no ability to defend herself or the ones she loves. In the dreaded Fire Swamp, Westley is attacked by a R.O.U.S, or rodents of unusual size, while poor Buttercup stands idle by watching. She does not help Westley by fetching his sword or fighting the rodent herself, and opts to stand in shock. While true love encourages the male characters to take action and be brave, Princess Buttercup is left helplessly dependant on other characters in the film. Furthermore, she has little to no control over herself or any subjects, despite being a royal princess. Buttercup finds herself tossed from one man’s hand to another, whether it is physically, through being captured and carried by bandits, or metaphorically, through marriage. She is hopeless in the hands of these men and finds the only thing she has control over is her own life, causing her to contemplate or threaten suicide many times. The gender bias is clear. Love manifest for the men through strength and bravery, yet for Buttercup, whose love is arguably stronger than any other character, love manifests as
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