Princess Bride Novel Essay
Wesley Adora
The Princess Bride Essay
Rigorous adventures; a quest of love; princes and princesses- all integrated together in a story called The Princess Bride. This fantasy film was based off a book written in 1973 by William Goldman. Directed by Rob Reiner, this film of true love was released on September 25th 1987. This movie can be considered a fantasy text due to the various archetypal characters; numerous predictable elements with outrageous surprising twists; exaggerated, magical settings and names, as well as several humorous scenes as well.
Archetypal characters include stereotypical people that universal expectations would assume of in a romantic fantasy film, for example Westley – the archetypal [attractive] hero, Buttercup – the archetypal Princess. There are also the sidekicks which include Inigo Montoya who is the ‘knight’, but in this context is a fencer; and Fezzik – who is the archetypal grunt. The realistic archetypes found in parallel narratives are the Grandpa and the Grandson. The names of the characters in the story are also very hyperbolic and ridiculous – those of which you would expect to find in a fantastical story, for example ‘Humperdinck’, and ‘Fezzik’. Archetypal villains include Humperdinck who wants Buttercup to marry him by force, and Vizzini – a Sicilian who is short in stature, and short in temper.
The characters all travel through rigorous adventures, and overcome several obstacles. The plot of The Princess Bride corresponds with the idea of a quest, and is fairly predictable and clichéd since the movie was made several decades ago and the modern generation is used to the plot style that The Princess Bride offers. This movie is set in medieval times, because some settings are located within castles, and there are princes and princesses. Pathetic fallacy is often used in the movie to symbolize the characters’ emotions. An example of the use of pathetic fallacy is during the scene of the swordfight between Inigo Montoya and
The Princess Bride Essay
Rigorous adventures; a quest of love; princes and princesses- all integrated together in a story called The Princess Bride. This fantasy film was based off a book written in 1973 by William Goldman. Directed by Rob Reiner, this film of true love was released on September 25th 1987. This movie can be considered a fantasy text due to the various archetypal characters; numerous predictable elements with outrageous surprising twists; exaggerated, magical settings and names, as well as several humorous scenes as well.
Archetypal characters include stereotypical people that universal expectations would assume of in a romantic fantasy film, for example Westley – the archetypal [attractive] hero, Buttercup – the archetypal Princess. There are also the sidekicks which include Inigo Montoya who is the ‘knight’, but in this context is a fencer; and Fezzik – who is the archetypal grunt. The realistic archetypes found in parallel narratives are the Grandpa and the Grandson. The names of the characters in the story are also very hyperbolic and ridiculous – those of which you would expect to find in a fantastical story, for example ‘Humperdinck’, and ‘Fezzik’. Archetypal villains include Humperdinck who wants Buttercup to marry him by force, and Vizzini – a Sicilian who is short in stature, and short in temper.
The characters all travel through rigorous adventures, and overcome several obstacles. The plot of The Princess Bride corresponds with the idea of a quest, and is fairly predictable and clichéd since the movie was made several decades ago and the modern generation is used to the plot style that The Princess Bride offers. This movie is set in medieval times, because some settings are located within castles, and there are princes and princesses. Pathetic fallacy is often used in the movie to symbolize the characters’ emotions. An example of the use of pathetic fallacy is during the scene of the swordfight between Inigo Montoya and