When I was a kid I saw Princess Bride and I formed a strong love for sword play. I was eight years old and in the living room when I first saw this dramatic, entertaining, and beautiful film. After I saw this I tried very hard to learn how to fence but it was not easy to learn because I had no one to teach me or train with me. Then a college that was in my hometown opened a fencing club when I was fifteen. However, when I got there everything was very different then I imagined. When I got there everyone was over twenty years old and they were twice my size both in length and width. I lost in under ten seconds in every match. Nothing was going my way, the college students acted like I didn’t even exist. I never spared as much I wanted to because
I was beaten so easily and there was no point. When I was about to quit my future best friend walked into the gymnasium where the fencing practice was taking place then, everything changed. We were always paired together in everything we did, which was a good thing because we learned very quick how to work together. We helped each other to learn the rules along with the fencing techniques so that we knew what we were doing. We became so good that the college students did not even last ten seconds against us, it was like we switched places with them. We also began to help teach the other students how to fence as well and they began to look up to us. I became literate in the art of fencing because I wanted to be good at it. We even went to renaissance fairs to demonstrate fencing and help others to see how amazing fencing is. Then we helped the people become literate in fencing as well. I became literate in fencing because my friend and I shared a common love for the same sport.
Provenance: The Princess Bride was written in 1973 by William Goldman and later adapted into a film in 1987.
The first sword used for fencing during this time was the broadsword. The broadsword was a large, double-bladed sword that was hard to use due to it’s heavyweight (Andrew 53). With the broadsword, came the sword-and-buckler technique. The sword-and-buckler technique involved using large, powerful slashes with the broadsword, and blocking with the buckler (a small shield strapped onto the forearm (Olsen 34). In the beginning of the 16th century, the rapier was introduced to fencing (Andrew 53). Unlike the thick and large broadsword, the rapier was thin light, long and maneuverable. With the rapier, a dagger was used for parrying and the rapier was used for attacking (Olsen 35). Later in the century, the dagger was replaced with a gauntlet due to gauntlet’s effectiveness in
Satire criticises and makes fun of the norms of human society. It adds an intellectual humour along with the archetypes that is present in the story. In The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, satire is in a wide variety of parts in the story from the communication between others to the character themselves including the Spaniard, Inigo Montoya. The author portrays Inigo as a Spaniard who becomes a fencer to seek revenge on the six-fingered man for the murder of his father, Domingo Montoya and he becomes a henchman to the criminal Vizzini. He is a very caring man to people he cares about, but he can only act on vengeance since he truly loves his father. With his attention only on reprisal, it can blind him from achieving the results he wants and that can significantly affect his personality as he is driven by it. When he finds the six-fingered man, he prepares after many years of training with famous fencers and even has a saying that he plants in his brain so that it is the driven force of vengeance. He is the ‘evil figure with an ultimately good heart’ archetype as he is a part of Vizzini’s group with Fezzik, but he has a change in heart that he needs Westley’s help to storm the castle. Although Inigo is a prestigious fencer who only cares about revenge, the author plays with satirical devices that portray the faults and weaknesses of his characteristics while maintaining his status as the best swordsman in his generation.
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I arrived at practice on time and that is when all of the running started. For what seemed like hours, we only sprinted down and back on the dek, until finally, it was over. All practices were like that though, and after a while, I was getting used to it. As for the people, the coaches were nice enough, and I met some of my best friends there. Michael, Julian, Marco, and Tyler were the first people who talked to me. I was still playing with Bill’s for local tournaments, but I was traveling with Penn Hills to places like New Jersey and Canada. Then one day, problems started arising. I was practicing with Penn Hills, preparing for a tournament in New Jersey, instead of going to Bill’s, and they started cutting my playing time. At that point I had to make a decision; Penn Hills, or Bill’s. I chose Penn Hills, and I do not regret it for a second. Later that season, we traveled to the New Jersey tournament and had a blast. In the hotel at night we would swim, play basketball, and relax in Michael’s room, only getting in a little bit of trouble.
“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death.” (Goldman 358) That was said by William Goldman at the end of his novel The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride is a book about a girl named Buttercup who learns throughout the book, about the difficulties of life. Buttercup learns about love, adventure, and truthfulness of life, and people. Buttercup lived in a farm in Florin opposite from the land of Guilder. Her family owned a boy she called “Farm boy.” Buttercup teased Farm boy and told him what to do. One day, the Count and Countess of Florin show up at Buttercups families farm, and asks for their cows milk, which was said to be the best milk around. The Countess takes an interest in Westly, the farm boy, and Buttercup realizes her love for him. When Buttercup admitted to her love for Westly, he told her he was moving to America to build a future for the both of them. Soon, Buttercup got a call that informed her of Westly’s death, she was petrified. Later in the book, the Prince of Florin decided he needed a princess because his father, the king, was very ill. Soon, he would become king, and there must be a queen. Prince Humperdinck went to Buttercups farm to gather her so she could become his wife. Buttercup did so and the marriage was soon to be. One day, when Buttercup had been living in the Princes castle, she decided to go for a ride on her horse. Buttercup was kidnapped by three men, Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik. They were planning on taking Buttercup to Guilder to kill her so there could be a war between Florin and Guilder. The group was followed by a “man in black” who turned out to be Westly Buttercups love. Westly defeated each man and planned on taking Buttercup to...
My father taught me to fight. He took to Camp Lejeune with him and had me watch the Marines training for hand to hand combat. He taught me how to fight with a knife, to shoot a gun and to find the weakness in any opponent I might have. The skills I learned helped me defend myself and my friends from the perils that awaited us.
In The princess Diaries 2, Princess Mia graduates from college, and moves to Genovia to live in a palace with her grandmother in order to take her place as queen. On Mia’s twenty-first birthday, she is obligated to dance with all the eligible bachelors, and at her birthday “ball”, she meets Nicholas. Mia and Nicholas have an encounter where they seem the “fall in love at first sight”. After her birthday, Mia learns about a law that is enforced in Genovia that requires her to get married before she can take her place as queen, and at the same time she finds out that Nicholas is trying to steal the crown from her. Mia finds a man named Andrew that she wants to marry, but when it comes time to get married Mia backs out and makes a motion to veto the law that forces her to get married. In the end, Mia becomes queen without having to marry, and her grandmother ends up marrying the love she always wanted.
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The world watched Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crash hundreds of parties in the film Wedding Crashers. For some, it was a just another entertaining cinematic adventure. However, for others, it was an inspiration to crash an event by stepping into someone else’s shoes and taking on a whole new identity. Crashing parties has been a part of life for quite some time. Every day some 18 year old tries and fails to enter the 21 and up bar. Two people took the idea of crashing parties and events very seriously; they’ve made a business out of it. Introducing the Wanderlust Projects. I’d consider them professionals in the urban exploring world in that they organize mass gatherings of people willing to try something new and live life on the edge.
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