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Different Emotions In The Princess Bride By William Goldman

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Love can bring out many different emotions in a person. In The Princess Bride the author William Goldman writes about Buttercup facing several different emotions. And being one of the “Most beautiful women” is not very easy for her. With the many challenges she faces. Form being taken away to get killed to being reunited with the love of her life. Being from a small farm to living in a castle and being the next new princess is a big change for Buttercup. First of all, living on a farm with only a mother, father, and the farm boy who is the help can make people oblivious to what is around them. For example, Buttercup was more well known as the nobody that was not pretty or the most beautiful, but as Buttercup grew up she was known as “Buttercup, …show more content…

For example, being scared of falling in love is normal. Or in Buttercup’s situation she’s oblivious to love. And she finds out she’s in love in one of the common ways . Jealousy. “And the countess was staring at westley.” advised Goldman. Buttercup could not get the thought out of her mind. It kept replaying and replaying and she just did not know why. Buttercup did the only thing she could think of. She confessed her love to Westley “‘i love you’ Buttercup said ‘I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all i’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but i have loved you for several hours now, and every second more.’” that is what Buttercup told Westley. Westley said nothing after that but slammed the door in her face. Devastation is what Buttercup felt from the reaction she from …show more content…

But being asked to be married to the prince is all the more unreal for Buttercup. “Evil prince Humperdinck of florin needs a wife and proposes to Buttercup because she is beautiful” asserted Kathryn A. Walterscheid. Buttercup does not take the proposal lightly. And stubbornly refused to marry the prince, but he threatened to kill her if she did not cooperate. Which made she very stubborn and precise on what she wanted and that was to give her love to another man that was not westley. When she finally agreed she vowed to prince Humperdinck she would never be able to love him because her heart belonged to

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