Comparison The book, The Princess Bride written by S.Morgenstern, abridged by William Goldman and published in 1973 by Harcourt Inc. and 335 pages long, is a novel set in the fictional countries of Florin and Guilder during the medieval ages. The story begins with a girl named Buttercup who lives on a farm with her mother and father and a farm hand named Westley, whom she verbally abuses daily to which he always responds with,”As you wish”. As time goes on, she slowly finds herself falling in love with Westley and when she finally confesses her love for him, he says that he loves her as well but states that they cannot wed until he has money. So he heads off to the new world to make his fortune. Next we are introduced to prince Humperdinck …show more content…
The trio then kidnap her and sail towards the Cliffs of Insanity, on the way she attempts to escape but in doing so is almost eaten by sharks but is rescued just in time. When the group arrives at the cliff side they sink the ship and begin scaling it, half way up the cliff face they notice that they are being followed by a man in black. They speed up climbing and when they all reach the top they cut the rope in an attempt to lose the man in black, but he jumped onto the rocky cliff side and continued climbing. Inigo stays behind to fight the man in black while the others go on ahead. After helping the man up as an act of sportsmanship, Inigo and the man in black duel ending with the the masked man the victor and Inigo unconscious. Next the unknown man faces Fezzik in hand to hand combat which ends with the masked man again victorious and Fezzik with the same fate as Inigo. The man in black is then pitted against Vizzini who holds Buttercup at knife point, as the other duels before the masked man is again the victor and runs away with Buttercup in tow and Vizzini dead from poison. As Buttercup and her rescuer flee from the ever advancing Prince Humperdinck and his hunting party who have been tracking them like bloodhounds they stop to catch