Buttercup: The Feminist Theory

Even though the feminist theory seems like its more prominent, women today have more freedom. Buttercup is the typical complicated girl in many ways, but then again she is completely different from the typical women you would know. Buttercup conforms to the traditional stereotype for women according to Feminist Theory, by being emotional and vain; however, she defies these stereotypes by being strong and brave. Buttercup is very tom-boyish in ways. Girls back in the day were very girly and dressed in a lot of dresses and did there hair 24/7. They would freak out if they even got a speck of dirt on them or touched something nasty. Girls these days are sort of like that, but we also have more of a different style these days, compared to back in the day. Moist girls these days still freak out and hate getting dirty. Our style to this day is more pop and we have very different types of hair styles and have more jewlry. Point being if Buttercup doesn’t act like any of the girls until the end of the book. She acts to be very beautiful at the end but only for a boy. Boys can get into our hearts and change us to make us want to improve ourselves for them. Women today do have more freedom, they can have jobs and do what they …show more content…
She begin to think that she need to look good and fix herself to look good for Westley. Although Westley didn’t care about her looks and how she dressed, She still thought she needed to improve herself for him, but he loved her no matter what! This is conforming to the typical girl, because most girls wanna keep improving themselves no matter what the guy says. The guy could tell her that she doesn’t need make-up or the have her hair all done up, or even to dress up and look nice forr him, but she won’t listen and she will do it anyway! That is exactly what Buttercup does at the end of the