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Theme of Love Loyalty and Friendship in Simon Morgenstern’s The Princess Bride
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Theme of Love Loyalty and Friendship in Simon Morgenstern’s The Princess Bride
The characters in The Princess Bride go through situations that bring out the ideal meaning of true friendship, love, and loyalty for each other. The actions in the novel are majorly motivated by pure love for each other. Westley and Buttercup endure suffering and tribulations but fight for each other due to the power of true love (Goldman 2007).. The relationship between Westley and Buttercup is hailed as the epitome of true love. Morgenstern gives a reference to the rankings of different things such as beautiful women, perfect couples, and best kisses. Through the novel, he insists that Buttercup is the most beautiful woman in her early twenties. Her kiss with Westley is regarded as the perfect kiss in the universe. These kiss rankings indicate that the love between Westley and Buttercup is true, meant to be, and the perfect of all other kinds of love (Symons, 2007)
Additionally, Buttercup is ready to commit suicide for the sake of Westley. She forsakes her role as the queen in her quest to find true love. Westley, however, is saved and reappears just in time to save her from killing herself.
On the other hand, Inigo loves and is loyal to his father, a fact that motivates his thirst for revenge. Though there’s nothing spoken outright about Inigo and Fezzik as done to Westley and Buttercup, their friendship is a real example of true companionship. Fezzik’s insecurity over his strength and fear of being left alone exposes him to selfish manipulation by Vizzini (Goldman 2007).. However, Inigo treats him kindly and gently, thus making Fezzik happy. They both work together and combine their strengths to enter the Zoo of death to accomplish their goals (Gale, 2016) . It’s because of love and loyalty between Inigo and Fezzik that they are miraculously reunited.
Both Westley and Buttercup also evidence loyalty. Her loyalty remains to Westley even after agreeing to marry Humperdinck. The same is the case with Westley, who shows his loyalty to Buttercup after a long time. He risks life to save Buttercup and always responds to her every command with “As you wish.”
Through the book, Goldman creates a story that helps readers understand how to evaluate relationships. He suggests that people should not base relationships on rankings but rather on how they treat each other. The theme of true love, loyalty, and friendships supersede all other themes in this text.
Works Cited
Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for William Goldman’s” The Princess Bride”. Gale Cengage Learning, 2016.
Goldman, William. The princess bride: S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of true love and high adventure. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.
Symons, Yoram. “Inconceivable: Genre in the ‘Princess Bride’.” Screen Education 46 (2007): 90.
Theme of Loyalty in Simon Morgenstern’s The Princess Bride
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Theme of Loyalty in Simon Morgenstern’s The Princess Bride
The characters in The Princess Bride go through situations that bring out the ideal meaning and value of loyalty for each other. The actions in the novel are majorly motivated by pure loyalty for each other. The theme of loyalty is demonstrated through different characters throughout the book. Westley and Buttercup endure suffering and tribulations but fight for each other and remain loyal to each other (Goldman 2007). The relationship between Westley and Buttercup though hailed as the epitome of true love is amplified by the level of loyalty the two have for each other.
Westley is determined to rescue Buttercup from the hands of her enemies and also to free her from getting engaged to the evil Prince. Westley encounters many problems in achieving his goals including a sword fight with Inigo, a battle of wits with Vizzini, a fist fight with Fezziki, the Giant, the fire swamp, the pit of despair and lastly the machine. Although the book initially portrays him as a young man consumes with love, his love for Buttercup later makes him more intelligent, wise and powerful. H is motivated by love and loyalty to do anything within his ability to save Buttercup. His loyalty results in subtle shifts in his personality. His incredible loyalty is shown when despite not having seen the love of his life for many years, his main goal remains finding her, regardless of the danger. On her part, Buttercup remains loyal to Westley even after being told of his death. When she pushes the pirate Roberts, he shouts his trademark words. Upon discovering that actually Roberts is her Westley she goes down and the two enjoy a romantic moment. She is still loyal to him and so is he.
Another example is that of Inigo Montoya who is fiercely loyal to his father. He sets out to avenge his father’s det in the hands of a six-fingered man. His sole goal is to kill his father’s killer, a fact that demonstrates remarkable family loyalty. He choses to become a swordsman mainly to show his undying loyalty to his father and family.
Though there’s nothing spoken outright about Inigo and Fezzik as done to Westley and Buttercup, their friendship is a real example of true companionship. Fezzik’s insecurity over his strength and fear of being left alone exposes him to selfish manipulation by Vizzini (Goldman 2007). However, Inigo treats him kindly and gently, thus making Fezzik happy. They both work together and combine their strengths to enter the Zoo of death to accomplish their goals (Gale, 2016). It’s because of love and loyalty between Inigo and Fezzik that they are miraculously reunited.
Through the book, Goldman creates a story that helps readers understand how to evaluate relationships. He suggests that people should not base relationships on rankings but rather on how they treat each other. The theme of loyalty supersedes all other themes in this text.
Works Cited
Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for William Goldman’s” The Princess Bride”. Gale Cengage Learning, 2016.
Goldman, William. The princess bride: S. Morgenstern’s classic tale of true love and high adventure. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.
Symons, Yoram. “Inconceivable: Genre in the ‘Princess Bride’.” Screen Education 46 (2007): 90.
Question 2
The adaptation of literary art from one medium to another always comes with new elements. These elements could either make the two versions accurate or create something very different from the original work. The princess bride film ranks as one of the most successful films released by Hollywood in the ’80s. It has got most features of modern cinema, including torture, fighting, fencing, monsters, revenge, true love, escapes, and miracles, among others.
An example of the changes includes the way the film cuts Fezzik’s backstory and distills the backstory of Inigo to justify his relationship with count Rugen. Initially, the shrieking eels were sharks, and the lighting sand was snow sand. A notable difference was the change from the pit of despair to the Zoo of Death. In summary, although both the book and film are great and have a great deal of semblance, the abridging framing device modified the plot.
There also some incidences where jarring changes are ranging from fantasy and reality. From a cinematic point of view, this made the plot very confusing, and even some crucial sections were removed from the original book to make the film less severe. The reliable narrative technic evidenced in the movie makes it an exciting watch. It reflects the actual narration of the book.
Utilitarianism and situational political control
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Utilitarianism and situational political control
Utilitarianism is a concept that emerged as a result of the imminent contributions of Jeremy Bentham and John Mill. According to this philosophy, the proper reason for an action should be based on its consequences to the larger society. A moral act should be in a position of reaping the maximum possible amount of benefit to the people. Since, its inception, this theory has gained a significant prominence in the political sphere in many countries (Bayles, M. D., 2009).
On the other hand, situational political control refers to another important political theory that existing political situation in a country can fuel the formation, development, growth and success of the movement groups by its citizens. Under this situation, people get segregated into two opposing contented and those feeling oppressed buy the existing leadership. Hence, those who see themselves as being subjected to lots of oppression surp0ression, injustice and unfair treatment mobilize others from the same category to form movement groups to unite them together as they strive for a common goal.
While utilitarian conditions always tend to create harmony and bring diverse people together, the situational political control causes a great rift between the ruling class with their allied groups and the dissatisfied that are not happy with the kind of administration they are subject to. In other words, utilitarian governments formulate policies that are aimed at benefiting the common people. This actually makes people feel happier with it since they know that their interests are put primary to any other. However, this does not apply to the situational political control where people revolt by coming together to form political movement groups to help advocate for their rights.
Lastly, the responsibility of a utilitarian government is to make people happier, laws are formulated and subsequently enforced to fairly reward and punish the society appropriately. This makes people feel that the law is for them. Hence, they cooperate with their leaders whom they then offer their maximum support. Meanwhile, the situational political control creates political pluralism characterized with lots of dissent groups that end up jeopardizing the mainstream political control. However, all these may be misused if proper guidelines are not executed.
People vs. George W. Hal
Asians are the people who trace their origin from the Semitic groups in the continent Asia. However, as a result of immigrations, many of them can now be found in America, Europe, Australia and America. The nature of classifying them into the white race has been a very contentious issue for quite a long time now (Bentham, J., 2009). However, the peek of this contention was realized during the court case between the People of the state of California and George W. Hall.
It was in 1854 during an appeal case at the Supreme Court of California when the then chief justice, Hugh Murray acquitted Hall, the appellate of the murder case for which he had been charged with a life sentence. Even if he had murdered Sing Ling Sing, an innocent Chinese miner at Nevada. In my opinion, this was a very unfair ruling that could not have been delivered by such an experienced judicial officer.
This case confirmed that the Chinese were not whites to could not enjoy the privileges reserved for the whites. Justice Murray clearly institutionalized it when he based his stance on the Californian constitution section 394 on the civil cases that states that, ‘No Negro or Indian will be allowed as a witness in any proceeding where a white person is a party.’ Therefore, the chief justice dismissed the case because the testimony had been given by a Chinese, whom according to his interpretation was not a white.
Surely, this was a clear indication of the racial segregation in the larger United States of America. It was just an example of how the native whites mistreat the immigrants believing that it is their God given privilege to be on top of any other person regarded as a non white. This culminated into several racial revolts in the history of America.
Works cited
Bayles, M. D. (2009). Contemporary Utilitarianism. Anchor
Books: Doubleday.
Bentham, J. (2009). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Dover Philosophical Classics). Dover Publications Inc.