![]() She is not always aware of danger until it is too late, since she assumes the worst of no one. She figures out after the prince shows confusion about his “four fastest ships” that he never sent word to her love in the first place. She naively assumes he will keep his word, but later figures out that he hasn’t, and though she has no reason to believe otherwise, firmly remains convinced that her lover will save her, because their love is so deep and passionate and true, nothing can stand in its path. Buttercup senses that the guards are going to kill Westley, and she can’t have that, so she barters for their life, promising to marry the prince if he will let Westley go back to his ship. When he’s attacked by a rodent, she stands there in shock and has no clue what to do or how to help him, merely pushing the rodent away with a stick when it comes after her (and shouting to be rescued). In the fire swamp, Westley has to save her multiple times because she is oblivious to the environment – she doesn’t notice the ROUS’s until they leap on him, the lightening sand until she falls into it, or the fire bursts. She is also somewhat naïve and almost pathetically inept when it comes to reacting to the physical environment – though she leaps into the water to get away from the ship, when they reach the top of the cliffs, she merely lays there, senseless, while the men cut the rope of the man trying to save her. Buttercup likens her lover’s eyes to the sea after a storm. When the Dread Pirate Roberts accuses her of betraying true love, Buttercup retaliates violently, insisting he doesn’t know her or her feelings, and cannot possibly imagine the depths of “true love,” with the implication that she alone feels these things. Her emotions dictate her decisions, including her decision to commit suicide in the honeymoon suite. She agrees to marry Humperdink, even though she knows she doesn’t love him and never will her heart belongs to Westley alone. The narrator says she figures out one day that by saying “as you wish,” he is actually saying “I love you,” even though he never said it to her. ![]() Buttercup is so intensely private about her feelings that she doesn’t even tell the “farm boy” that she loves him instead, she comes up with reasons to have him do things for her, rather than do them for herself.
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