Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride: Who Is A Romantic Or Epic Hero?
Romantic… Epic… Hero…? When I was a little girl, I always believed a hero, perhaps a young prince, would save me from my awful parents. That prince would be my hero and we would live happily ever after. I know now, that’s not realistic, yet the media keeps pushing this ridiculous idea on little girls everywhere. They wait, in despair, for a prince who will never arrive. Heroes like this are classified into several schemas in literature. An epic hero is superhuman in contrast to the romantic hero who has humanistic faults but also his own strength. Each hero type has determination to accomplish something whether it be saving the girl or saving the village, but they differ in their actions. In Rob Reiner’s, The Princess Bride, he uses the
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The epic hero had missions that relate to praise and pride. A paradigm of this would be when Wesley was leaving to find a job at sea so he could get married to Buttercup, the girl he is madly in love with. This shows how he is sacrificing time with her for emotions that relate to loving her unconditionally. The intense emotions which he is feeling create a relationship between the reader and the hero. This part of the Romantic hero is substantial in creating the mood for the story. Wesley as a character is determined to marry Buttercup so much as to leave her for possible death and tragedy that lies on the open seas. Determination through these intense feelings of lust and love create a bond so connectable that it can be helpful in how the story is portrayed. Emotions also relate to Wesley in the sense of how he cares for his friends that were once enemies. For instance with the Spaniard, Wesley remembers the six fingered man who killed this man’s father showing his compassion toward human sacrifice. Furthermore a romantic hero makes his way out of the lower class and raises his social stature in pursuit of his pending
The epic hero had missions that relate to praise and pride. A paradigm of this would be when Wesley was leaving to find a job at sea so he could get married to Buttercup, the girl he is madly in love with. This shows how he is sacrificing time with her for emotions that relate to loving her unconditionally. The intense emotions which he is feeling create a relationship between the reader and the hero. This part of the Romantic hero is substantial in creating the mood for the story. Wesley as a character is determined to marry Buttercup so much as to leave her for possible death and tragedy that lies on the open seas. Determination through these intense feelings of lust and love create a bond so connectable that it can be helpful in how the story is portrayed. Emotions also relate to Wesley in the sense of how he cares for his friends that were once enemies. For instance with the Spaniard, Wesley remembers the six fingered man who killed this man’s father showing his compassion toward human sacrifice. Furthermore a romantic hero makes his way out of the lower class and raises his social stature in pursuit of his pending