*Oh man, twenty pages left!*
They obtained the one key in and out of the castle and went in with Westley hobbling along weakly after being revived. They still don't know the wedding has commenced or that Westley is running out of time so quickly.
Sooo.... they're getting married. Getting married. People are screaming. Getting married. They're married! The old King and Queen escort Buttercup to Humperdinck's bed chambers, and then she sees all the sharp objects he collects and decides Westley would have been there by now if he was really going to come for her, so she decides to commit suicide with a Florinese dagger.
Meanwhile (I say that a lot, huh?), since the almighty Count ran away like a baby when Inigo said his line “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” Inigo asks Fezzik to bust down the door Count Rugen put between them so he can pursue him. Afterward, Fezzik is supposed to return to Westley and protect him, but Westley has already hobbled off. Fezzik loses his way and now Inigo is running again. He's actually gaining on the count.
So now, back to Buttercup, she's about to kill herself, and enter Westley with his suave “Honey I'm home,” type of joke. Before Humperdinck walks in, back to Inigo. Inigo starts his famous line again then gets stabbed in the chest by the Count. Now back to Westley. He tells Buttercup to hug him gently and she knows something is off when Humperdinck busts in. (Gosh, this is like a soap opera, this was before soap operas, but long after drama. Lol. Morgensternian humor XD) Humperdinck says “to the death,” Westley says “to the pain,” and back to Inigo. He gets wounded really badly but then his mentors in his head tell him what to do to fight back and he inflicts identical wounds on Rugen until he kills him. Dream. Come. True. All-the-while, saying his line a billion times.
So.... with that done, Westley explains the brutal concept of fighting “to the pain,” threatening Humperdinck, outright bluffing, and scaring him into submission. Humperdinck drops his sword and then, Westley's forty minutes are up and his eyes role back. When he dies, Humperdinck picks the sword up again, but then miraculously Westley wakes up again! He drops the sword again and Buttercup ties him up, then Inigo comes in and reveals that Westley has no strength and they jump out the window, one by one, into Fezzik's arms and onto the Prince's prized Whites.
Fezzik did some thinking for himslef! Unbelieveable and his highest point in the novel, just as the Count's murder was Inigo's highest point. Congrats to them. And the way Westley pulled all of this off was his best. And then as they begin riding the white horses to freedom, to the castle gate, Buttercup has her moment to shine. She stands on the saddle of the horse and commands, with unworldly power, that Yellin and the Brute Squad obey their “Queen” and find Humberdinck. When they all listen, Buttercup and company can make their escape.
So they talk a little as they ride toward the Florin Channel and apparently when Westley died again, he “asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day” and he gave it to him. Westley and Buttercup both promised to outlive each other so they'd be together forever.
According to William Goldman's father, the barber, who read this to his son as he recovered from pneumonia, “They lived happily ever after.” According to morganstein, “Inigo's wound reopened, Westley relapsed again, and Fezzik took the wrong turn, and Buttercups horse threw a shoe. And the night behind them was filled with the crescendoing sound of puruit...” (pg. 357).
Whew, so it's done. Morgenstern tricked us all by making us think everything was resolved at the end. Fezzik was smarter and more independent than ever, Inigo avenged his father, and lived, Buttercup was rescued and reunited with her Westley and Westley was actually alive and kicking again right? I definitely didn't expect the ending to be open like that.. Oh well, what can you do? I
t's actually pretty funny, I saw the movie at my boyfriend's house last year before I ever even looked at the book. He was so excited, he's like “you never saw the Princess Bride? Oh man, you gotta see it!” He's a real romantic. And so I thought, “hey, what the heck?” It sounded cute enough plus it meant I got to see him( sorry, TMI), so I watched it. And I loved it too. It's easy to get wrapped up in. So now, I'm reading it and getting little bits and pieces flashing through my head. To tell you the truth, a lot of it just came back to me, because I was still surprised with most of it. I genuinely didn't remember basically any of this until after I started reading it, so it was fun when I was like, “wait, I remember that quote!” This was a fun experience. Now I have to get into the real work. Well, I'm outta here! Peace.
pg. 338
Propriety (n.): the standard of what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech
Guess who? Webster.
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