![]() ![]() Audiences and Westley alike gasped with confusion as she offered to return with the horrid prince, but to her, Westley’s life was more important than her happiness. So, once the pair is out of the fire swamp and are met with Prince Humperdinck and his guard who are determined to take Buttercup to the palace, Buttercup panics and agrees to go with Humperdinck so long as Westley gets to live the life he’s established on the high seas. Once she knows that the masked man is in fact Westley, she is desperate to not loose him to death ever again. ![]() The other piece of Buttercup that I find to be close to how a real person would act is her rash decision making skills. She started acting silly, like telling Westley to fetch her something that was easily within her reach, just to keep him around before she ever admitted her feelings to herself, much less Westley. I think that it’s very human to have such an obliviousness to our own emotions and feelings, and it’s also normal to have a rather hesitant nature in dealing with them once we realize that they’re there, just like Buttercup did. She goes from pestering him without a second thought as to why, to realizing that he loved her, to slowly realizing that she loved him back. ![]() It takes her what the narrator tells us is quite a while before she realizes what the audience suspected from Buttercup’s first few moments on screen: she loves the farm boy named Westley as much as she loves to give him grief. At the very beginning of the movie, recognizing and dealing with her feelings is something Buttercup seems loathe to do. The first way I notice Buttercup as a tangible character is how she recognizes and deals with her feelings. In a post later on this month, I will talk about why I think that this character construction was intentional, but for now, we’re going to look at a couple of the ways that Buttercup was a realistic representation of things that everyone goes through, even though what she went through herself was not the everyday occurrence. Many see Buttercup and are quick to point out how shallow and unrealistic she is, and in some respects, this is true. Buttercup, the princess referred to in the title The Princess Bride, is the leading lady of the story. ![]()
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