The Princess Bride Research Paper

When I was a child my family rarely had the money or time for an outing to the movie theaters, so when we watched a movie it was generally on DVD and, if it was me or my mom choosing the movie, it was The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride had everything a proper fantasy movie should; adventure, battles of strength and wit, and true love. We follow the heroine, Princess Buttercup as she is separated from her true love, betrothed to the repulsive prince Humperdinck, kidnapped by a band of criminals, saved by a mysterious man, and exacts her revenge on the man who hired her kidnappers. This movie sets the precedent for all other media that I consumed. Even now, I have a tendency to compare books and movies to The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride showed me what to expect in life and provided a variety

I didn’t look up to a celebrity or a single person that would eventually fail me, I looked up to characters that would only change as I changed. Buttercup was a symbol of feminine courage and resilience that was rarely seen in the books or movies that I consumed as a child. Motivated at first by the will to survive, she makes the best of her circumstances by agreeing to marry a man she finds repulsive and then later, showed her courage by jumping into eel infested waters to escape Vizzini, who would have surely killed her eventually. Buttercup loved a resilient and intelligent man that could find humor in even the worst of situations. Westley was a farm boy, the man in black, The Dread Pirate Roberts, and eventually Westley again. The kind of adaptability and resilience that Westley exhibited was influential to me as a young girl because I had to adapt to different circumstances and people very quickly. At times, I had to be invisible or hard or docile to survive the situation that I was in at the time and I drew on Westley's character a lot to achieve