Upon first glance the princess bride may seem like just another “hero-saves-the-girl-and-helps-all-his-friends-achieve-their-goals” type of story, which it is. However what the book and movie both accomplish is to recognize the irony in itself. The book is basically a “Book within a book” and the movie is “A book within a movie”. Both of them achieve their goal in showing this. The book starts with a boy being read a book, his grandfather stops reading because he sees that his grandson is fading. The boy says that the book is boring, He is confused he says that the book has everything that a good story needs. Frustrated he walks away and reads parts of it. To his surprise he realises that it is boring. So as opposed to picking a new story
