The Princess Bride Blog

Annotated Bibliography- The Princess Bride

Introduction At the beginning of this semester, this course seemed really intimidating. While I have a passion for reading and literature, and consider myself a good close reader, after the first day of class I didn’t know what to expect. But when we actually got into it, I found myself really enjoying the books we…

The Narration of The Princess Bride

By: Rhys Ancheta When looking more closely at The Princess Bride, readers that are examining the text as a writer would see that the novel’s rhetorical dimension is full of narrator and addressee interpellation. Interpellation is when a narrator calls on the readers to play a specific role and experience the text as the intended…

The Princess Bride – Blog 3

Pulling apart the beloved book and movie The Princess Bride was very interesting. I have grown up with this story as a movie because this is my mother’s favorite book. It is a crazy love story about the main character, Buttercup, and her family’s farmhand Westly. Buttercup professes her love to him and following her…

Blog Two

By: Anna Keefe When we think of Romance in genre we think of love and complicated.  Two characters always end up together at the end of a story being written.  We see this happen in The Princess Bride  between Buttercup and Westley.  In the beginning Buttercup confesses her love to Westley and finds out later…

Aesthetic Emotion in The Princess Bride

By. Sophia Romano The Princess Bride is a movie many recognize from their childhood but the nostalgic film was actually based on a book by William Goldman. The adventure romance novel is an absolutely thrilling tale about true love and being resilient in achieving your goals. The story follows a woman named Buttercup who falls…