English
Fairytales are much often made of stuff related to fantasies and fancies. Fantasies of a child and possibly that of a child who never grows up continues to exist in an adult body in the form of imaginative figments. Such imagination is so lucid that it translates almost to reality, maybe the surreal and the virtual reality.
Princess Bride is also a story of fantasies that have occasionally gone wrong, but again, the imagination is so fertile that it is apparently very close to the reality. The main character Billy believes in certain amount of reality behind wild imaginations. His imaginations that started as an innocent fantasy during his childhood continued to grow wild and possibly even border on reckless as he progresses into becoming a youth and later. His imagination is so fertile that there is a realm of belief that it is the truth. It is a parody that the imagination can be no further farther than the truth. A sense of virtual reality that encompasses all the sense and the entire process of living itself.
This is the stuff that fairytales are typically made of – fantasies and imaginations that start probably at an innocent young age and go on to surround the psyche of the individual so overwhelmingly and so completely that the individual believes it to be the reality, eventually ending in a deep sense of virtual reality. Real, yet virtual; virtual yet real; all in the mind and the psyche of the character. However much the authors of the fairytales wish, they somehow end up imposing certain aspects of their persona on to the characters in their fairytales, further giving credence to the sense of virtual reality.
Works Cited
Goldman, By William. The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love & High Adventure. Park Avenue South, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
