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To determine:
The one character who is most accountable for the death of the attractive princess.
Introduction/case summary (question specific):
The beautiful princess who was married felt deserted and was longing for love as the prince leaves the kingdom regularly. This led for her to secretly have an affair with a wanderer. One day, the wanderer abandoned the princess that is when the princess realized that the way to get back to the castle was to cross path with the captivated forest that belonged to an evil wizard. The clueless princess was frightened to go alone so she asked helped from her kind-hearted godfather. He was disturbed by her actions even though she pleaded for forgiveness, so he did not help her to get back to the castle. The princess later asked help from a righteous knight but he also abandoned her. Due to this, the princess decided to cross the forest alone and when she almost crossed it, the evil witch caught her and fed the princess to her vicious dragon. All the men are accountable for the death of the princess, but one of the men is most accountable to it.
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