“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”- William Goldman.The story The Princess Bride is a classic fairytale written by William Goldman who pretends the novel was written by S. Morgenstern. The novel includes interjects by S.Morgenstern and William Goldman.In the novel The Princess Bride William Goldman conveys the universal theme that life isn’t fair, but works out better in the end.
The first way the universal theme is shown is through characterization. Inigo Montoya is a character in the novel who goes through many hardships. “As to Inigo’s personal life, he was always just a trifle hungry, he had no brothers or sisters, and his mother died in childbirth. He was fantastically happy.” (120) Inigo had literally no family …show more content…
Inigo and Westley were duelling to death to save and protect the Buttercup from one another. “...and the blades were both invisible, but oh, the earth trembled, and ohhhh, the skies shook, and Inigo was losing.” (151) This quotes is an example of hyperbole. It wasn’t fair how Inigo was losing because he spent multiple years of his life training to be the best, but it worked out for the best because of wasn’t killed and was able to reach his overall goal of revenge for his father. In the novel the two lovers Buttercup and Westley are travelling through the fire swamp. The fire swamp was a place that put fear into children’s heart as shown through Buttercup. “As a child, she had once spent an entire nightmared year convinced that she was going to die there. Now she could not move another step.” (200) It was not fair that Buttercup had to travel through a place that she envisioned her death in. Later in the chapter Buttercup begins to drown in the Snow sand, “Snow sand is as powdery as anything short of talcum, and destroys by suffocation.” (200) this use of imagery shows the danger of snow sand. “Wesley busied himself as best he could...The length of her quietness disturbed him vaguely; it was almost as if she knew she had died and was afraid to find out for a fact that it was true. He held her in his arms, rocked her slowly. Eventually she was blinking.” (206) This shows how even when Buttercup was close to death Westley still saves her and her life is kept
The first way the universal theme is shown is through characterization. Inigo Montoya is a character in the novel who goes through many hardships. “As to Inigo’s personal life, he was always just a trifle hungry, he had no brothers or sisters, and his mother died in childbirth. He was fantastically happy.” (120) Inigo had literally no family …show more content…
Inigo and Westley were duelling to death to save and protect the Buttercup from one another. “...and the blades were both invisible, but oh, the earth trembled, and ohhhh, the skies shook, and Inigo was losing.” (151) This quotes is an example of hyperbole. It wasn’t fair how Inigo was losing because he spent multiple years of his life training to be the best, but it worked out for the best because of wasn’t killed and was able to reach his overall goal of revenge for his father. In the novel the two lovers Buttercup and Westley are travelling through the fire swamp. The fire swamp was a place that put fear into children’s heart as shown through Buttercup. “As a child, she had once spent an entire nightmared year convinced that she was going to die there. Now she could not move another step.” (200) It was not fair that Buttercup had to travel through a place that she envisioned her death in. Later in the chapter Buttercup begins to drown in the Snow sand, “Snow sand is as powdery as anything short of talcum, and destroys by suffocation.” (200) this use of imagery shows the danger of snow sand. “Wesley busied himself as best he could...The length of her quietness disturbed him vaguely; it was almost as if she knew she had died and was afraid to find out for a fact that it was true. He held her in his arms, rocked her slowly. Eventually she was blinking.” (206) This shows how even when Buttercup was close to death Westley still saves her and her life is kept