Brief Summary Of Buttercup's Poem

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The beginning of the story starts with when Westley (the farmer boy) falls in love with Buttercup. Then the rising action is when Buttercup and Westley fall in love. Westley goes to America to start a better life. Buttercup and her parents get contacted that the pirates start attacking Westley’s ship and he dies, Buttercup becomes beautiful and Prince Humperdinck asked to marry him. She says yes but never loved him. Then Buttercup is kidnapped to start a war. The man in black comes to save her. Once she finds out that it is Westley. He falls down a cliff. The Prince finds her and he torchers Westley till he is dead. Now the climax is when Westley and Buttercup finally find each other and meet up again and they work together to escape from prince Humperdinck. Then the falling action begins after Westley is pronounced dead. Inigo, Fezzil, (and presumed dead) Westley, enter Humperdinck’s castle to stop the wedding. Westley and Buttercup are finally happy and free. The resolution is that they all live happily ever after. …show more content…
Prince Humperdinck sees Buttercup and she looks beautiful. The Prince asked Buttercup to marry him and she said yes. Buttercup gets kidnapped by a band of criminals consisting of Inigo, Fezzik, and Vizzini. Later, the man in the black mask Buttercup finds out is Westley. Westley is the pirate that everybody had assumed killed Westley. They exited the Swamp when they had encountered Prince Humperdinck. She would agree to go back with him to marry him so that Westley is returned safely to his ship. In Chapter 6, leading up to the wedding of Buttercup, and Prince Humperdinck. Inigo, and Fezzik are reunited only to find that Westley is being tortured in the Zoo of Death Humperdinck and Count Rugen. Humperdinck is planning to murder Buttercup on their wedding night because he wants to frame Guilder and began a

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