Plot:
In a Renaissance-era world a beautiful young woman named Buttercup lives on a farm. She has a boyfriend named Westley. Westley leaves to seek his fortune, so they can marry. Buttercup later receives word that Weatley was killed by Pirate. Believing Westley dead, Buttercup sinks into abject despair. Sometime later she reluctantly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck.Before the wedding, she met Westley again. Westley tells Buttercup that the Dread Pirate Roberts did attack his ship. They are captured by Prince Humperdinck and his cruel six-fingered assistant, Count Tyrone Rugen. Buttercup negotiates for Westley's release and returns with Humperdinck to the palace to await their wedding.
Buttercup decides to commit suicide when she reaches the honeymoon suite. Westley reaches Buttercup before she commits suicide. Instead of killing his rival, Westley decides to leave him alive for a long, miserable life with his obvious cowardice as his only companion. The story ends with a series of mishaps and the prince's men closing in, but the author indicates that he believes that the group got away.
Comment:
Princess Bride was shown in 1987. From the early 1960s, here came to the second wave of feminism. In this period, the essence was to emphasize the necessity of labor division between the sexes. What they challenge is to abolish the basic point that women are attached on man. In those years, feminists also made an attempt to reach out across national boundaries and discover what they had – or did not have – in common with feminists abroad.
In peaceful time, people would likely to see more than pure love. So, the plot become complex, and during a series of unexpected stories, the princess became spiritually independent and has her own thought. Obviously, she has the spirit of rebelling. She would rather die than marry a guy (actually a prince) that she doesn’t love. The essence of this “mad” decision she made has fully proved feminism. A woman is totally belongs to herself. She refuses to make compromise.
Strictly speaking, Buttercup could not be called as “princess” because she was not born in a royal family, instead, in a farm. This makes feminists more excited. Even a normal girl could have this kind of thought, which means feminism becomes increasingly closer to ordinary people.