Westley And Buttercup example essay topic

In the film, 'The Princess Bride,' ; directed by Rob Reiner, CaryElwes plays a farm boy known as Westley during the Middle Ages. Westley falls in love with Buttercup, played by Robin Wright, who lives upon the land where he works. Buttercup also falls in love with Westley, so he sets out to find his fortune so they can be married. A short time later, Buttercup learns that Westley has been killed by pirates. The Prince of the land chooses Buttercup to be his bride, regardless to her feelings. Before the marriage takes place, Buttercup is kidnapped.

Westley, disguised as a pirate in black, sees the kidnapping occur and chases after Buttercup. He catches up and defeats all three of the kidnappers using his strength, skill, and smarts. Buttercup learns of his true identity and together they escape from the evil prince. Westley is an intelligent man who makes good choices.

He is a hero in many aspects. Buttercup, on the other hand, made some poor choices. Westley was intelligent. He displayed this characteristic when he poisoned the cups of wine.

He poisoned both cups to guarantee that Vizzini, played by Wallace Shawn, one of the kidnappers of Buttercup, died. The intelligence was in the preparation. Westley had built up immunity to the poison before so that the small amount didn't affect him when he drank it, but affected Vizzini. Westley also showed intelligence when he couldn't move, but made Prince Humperdink believe that he could. Westley just kept talking to Humperdink until he could get help and Prince Humperdinksurrendered. Westley showed that he made good choices many times.

His first good choice was to love Buttercup. He chose a girl that truly loved him in return. He also chose to trust Inigo when he was climbing up the cliff. Westley chose not to kill Fezzik and Inigo.

This proved helpful in defeating Prince Humperdink and his army. Buttercup couldn't see through people like Westley could. She trusted Prince Humperdink when he asked her to make a deal with him. Humperdink, after telling Buttercup that he was returning Westley to his ship and really imprisoning him, tried to make a deal with Buttercup. After seeing Buttercup, obviously unhappy, told Buttercup to write four letters to Westley.

He said that his four fastest ships would carry the letters to Westley. If Westley still wanted to marry Buttercup, the prince would allow that. But, if Westley didn't come back, he asked Buttercup to think about marrying him instead. Buttercup agreed with this. She didn't realize he was truly scum, until he made a mistake and basically told her that he didn't send the ships.

This was one of her poor choices, trusting Prince Humperdink. Another choice she made was trusting in Westley to come and rescue her from the Prince. This was a good choice, because Westley was dependable. The poor decision was not trusting him through the end. Westley promised that nothing would keep them apart. But when shortly before her wedding with Prince Humperdink, Westleywasn't there, Buttercup believed that Westley just wouldn't show up.

Westley though, did show up. He saved her from Humperdink, and showed her that she wasn't legally married to Humperdink. As shown here, Westley and Buttercup were totally different in their thinking abilities. Westley thought things through and used his smarts when he was in trouble. Buttercup believed in things that were on the surface. She found it hard to look past the obvious.

Even with these differences, they were truly meant to be together..