In the movie, The Princess Bride, protagonist Inigo Montoya and Westley can be portrayed as similar yet diverse characters. Westley is a young farm boy who is motivated to reunite with his true love, Buttercup. Inigo is a master swordsman who is seeking revenge against his father’s murderer. These two unlikely men have shown corresponding personalities, but can define themselves in their own unique way.
In the natural, baseball is the main point of the whole movie. It is about a guy named Roy Hobbs, a small town guy, who is really good at baseball. No one knows his whereabouts and everyone wants to know “where the heck did this guy come from?”. He takes everyone by surprise by being really good, since he is a middle age man. He proves them all wrong when he starts winning games, which does not make the judge happy at all.
To begin, Inigo’s “ordinary world”is his hometown of Madrid, Spain. Inigo also has many mentors; to illustrate this, Goldman writes, “These have been spent studying the sword… Wherever I could find a master. Venice, Bruges, Budapest” (Goldman 122). This shows Inigo’s time in the mentor stage of the hero’s journey.
Heroes are defined by many characteristics and experiences. Traits such as courage and selflessness, or the adventure he embarks on could show that one is a true hero. Rob Reiner’s movie “The Princess Bride” contains characters which possess qualities that are of an archetypal hero, such as Inigo Montoya. After his father’s brutal murder by the six-fingered man, Inigo spends his life searching for his killer so he may bring his father’s spirit to rest. Inigo Montoya’s experience with common archetypes, his quest along the Hero’s Journey, and the heroic qualities he possesses aids in portraying him as an archetypal hero.
Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride is story of a young man who is soon to marry a young, beautiful later, but as he is rehearsing for his wedding day, he places his ring on a skeletons finger. This creates a huge misunderstanding and the young man, Victor must try to escape land of the dead in which he is summoned into when he “asks the skeleton to marry him”. He must find a way back before he loses his soon to be wife, Victoria. In the year of 1949, Joseph Campell introduced the concept of the “hero’s journey”.
The fantasy is about Buttercup, a milkmaid, and Westley, a farm boy, who fall in love and have to face many obstacles. The story mainly develops the themes of true love and revenge. However, in the book, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, the story develops the theme of revenge and true love in more depth compared to the movie. First of all, the book provides a detailed past of each main character which makes the reader sympathize with them. For example, in the book, the author has dedicated four to five pages to understand Inigo’s and Fezzik’s past.
First of all, The Princess Bride is a movie about love, vengeance, and companionship. The story focuses on a farm girl, Buttercup, who has been chosen as the prince's bride to Prince Humperdinck. However, Buttercup does not love him, as she mourns the death of her one true love, Westley. She is later on kidnapped by a band of bandits: Vizzini, Fezzik, and Montoya. However, they are chased by Dread Pirate Roberts himself, aka Westley and attempts to rescue Buttercup.
Rev. Dr. John Prochaska, opens the second chapter of his nonfiction work Extreme Heroism by writing, “The first thing that sets extreme heroism apart from other forms of heroism is its relationship to injustice and justice; it is partly a response at an emotional level to seeing an injustice, hearing of an injustice, or otherwise experiencing an injustice.” In Bradbury’s world of Fahrenheit 451, the protagonist Guy Montag lives in a similar world of injustices; a city of rampant oppression, extreme totalitarianism, and limited knowledge protected by threats of destruction. Living in a brutal environment like this pushes people to intellectual suicide in order to stand living in their environment; most opt to let themselves be permanently distracted
The movie, the Princess Bride, 1987, directed by Rob Reiner and written by William Goldman, has used film techniques and narrative conventions to create certain Themes. These themes that have been used are; Revenge, Love and violence. For example, the person preforming the revenge aspect is called Inigo Montoya. Montoyas revenge is clearly proformed towards the end of the movie. This is where he battles the six fingered man, Count Ruegon; who supposedly killed his father and gave him two scars down both sides of his face.
The limited point of view which The Scarlet Pimpernel employs is crucial for the protection of Percy’s identity and the perception of his heroism. The majority of the novel takes place in a limited point of view from Marguerite Blakeney’s perspective, and the description of Percy comes from her opinion of him, which is a sharp contrast to the descriptions of the Scarlet Pimpernel. While Marguerite regards the Scarlet Pimpernel as a brave and clever hero, she views her husband as unintelligent and dull, therefore removing from most people’s minds any suspicion of his being the Scarlet Pimpernel and causing the reveal of his identity to be more astounding than if Percy himself was the protagonist. Furthermore, Percy’s is not the protagonist even when he is the one leading the rescues, and this causes suspense because even though he has a situation under control, it seems that Chauvelin and his men have actually won. Percy appears a more impressive hero because he never reveals his plans until after the rescue is complete.
As seen in the example of Kayla Montgomery, by believing in herself she has become one of the top runners in her school. She believes that she can run hard and fast, and she will not give up that dream. Westley from “The Princess Bride(1987)” is trying to free his true love, Buttercup, from the hands of Prince Humperdinck. However, Humperdinck gets to Westley first and kills him. After being revived by Fezzik and Inigo, Westley somehow manages to get to Buttercup.
Heroism, tends to be difficult to define and remarkably ambiguous in literary works. In the Odyssey, however, Homer clearly defines a hero as a humble, determined, and loyal individual; thus, according to Homer, it is not enough to claim to be a hero, but it is also important to exhibit those qualities that Homer values as heroism. Odysseus, despite claiming heroism, upholds these traits inconsistently, as seen in his taunting of Polyphemus. In contrast, Telemachus, Odysseus’ overlooked son, dramatically grows up over the course of the epic and ultimately reveals his truly heroic qualities by the end of the poem. Thus, because Odysseus claims to be a hero, but fails to remain humble, determined, and loyal throughout the epic, he is not a hero.
The Odyssey is a fantastic story full of interesting characters, conflicts, and theme. The Odyssey was written by Homer who was a blind poet. It was written in the 8th century B.C during a time of Greek god worship. With intricate characters, exciting conflicts, and an impressive theme the Odyssey is an amazing book for anyone. Odysseus showed the heroism of a mighty hero buy his heroism was not without foibles.
William Goldman basically made up this story called, “The Princess Bride” (Goldman Introduction). It was also his favorite book, it was written in many languages (Goldman,24). Unfortunately, Goldman didn’t end the book right, he could have a feature where Buttercup married Westley instead of them leaving the castle at the end of the book. Goldman wanted you to think that the Prince was envious that Buttercup loved Westley that’s why he tortured Westley so bad. It was one of the reasons that she had dreams of having
What is a hero? A hero is someone who is courageous and is willing to step up and fight when the time is right. A hero fights for is for the betterment of others, and not only to benefit themselves. Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally are all heroes in "The Outsiders," by S. E. Hinton, although Johnny is the greatest hero of them all.
