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The Princess Bride Character Analysis

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A possible theme for The Princess Bride by William Goldman is ¨Love Can Make You Do Crazy Things¨. Throughout both of the two stories that are going on in The Princess Bride, characters are constantly doing crazy things to be reunited or show their love for others in the book. Inigo´s love for his dead father causes him to seek vengeance on the six-fingered man who killed him, and when he later find out that Count Rugen was the murderer, he doesn't hesitate to kill him. ¨ ´If you say I am, I will seek him through the world. If you say no, I will spend another ten years and another ten after that, is that is needed. ´ ¨. (pg 137) This quote shows how dedicated that Inigo is to be prepared to find the man that killed his father, and will do
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