The Theme Of True Love In The Princess Bride

Adventure, true love, death, and a malevolent antagonist are all parts of an exciting fairytale. The Princess Bride incorporates all these qualities into a spellbinding story enjoyable for all readers. Buttercup and Westley are two characters in love with each other. They became separated and go on exciting adventures to reunite again. Torture, death, kidnapping, threats, injury, and suicide attempts don't stop their love. In the end, true love always prevails. Although it looks like true love cannot survive in the beginning of The Princess Bride, facts and events that happen throughout the story proves it otherwise.

To begin, the character Westley portrays that true love prevails by his many actions. He wasn't killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts because when Roberts asked why he shouldn't kill Westley, Westley answered that he was on a mission to earn money and reunite with Buttercup, his love. A passage from the book describes what Westley's reason to come back to life was. It says, " 'Tr...ooooo...luv' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and hey both pivoted, string at the man in black, who was silent again. "'True love, he said," Inigo cried. "You heard him-true love is what he wants to come back for. That's certainly worthwhile." It means that even though Westley was dead, he still wanted to come back because he loved Buttercup so much. This shows how Westley truly loved Buttercup.

When she got the letter that the Dread Pirate Roberts killed Westley, she never loved another person. That proves how devoted to Westley she was. Even when she agreed to marry Prince Humperdinck, she told him that she would never love him. When she found out that Prince Humperdinck killed Westley using the Machine, she decided that she would kill herself after the wedding, because to her, the world without Westley was nothing. She loved Westley so much that she would give up her life to be with