Princess Bride
The Princess Bride By: William Goldman In the far away, magical and enchanted land of Florin lived a beautiful princess and a handsome prince who loved each other very much and lived in perfect harmony. ... However, William Goldman’s The Princess Bride paints a very different picture. ... This tale recounts the story of a princess who is in love with another man, while engaged to the prince. ... The written text of The Princess Bride causes the reader to be actively involved in the content and to form one’s own mental images through descriptive language. ... An example of this is how he kills off Westley, the princess’ true love, several times so that we feel the story will come to a tragic end. ... For example, when Westley and Buttercup, the princess, enter the Fire Swamp we aren’t told that this was always a childhood fear because parents used to threaten this as punishment for mischievous children.