The Message of Shrek

The Message of Shrek

In traditional fairy tales, ogres are man-eating beasts. The prince

usually rescue the princess, they marry and live happily ever after.

How do the makers of 'Shrek' use presentational devices to reverse

this tradition, to reveal the ogre as good, and the prince as evil?

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In my essay, I am going to review the characters of Shrek and Lord

Farquaad, and write about how filmmakers use different camera angles

and shots to make an unusual fairytale.

In traditional fairytales the prince saves the princess from a dragon

that protects the princess in the castle I the tallest tower and the

prince slays the dragon so this means the ogre stands for the bad

person. For example in 'Snow White', a wicked witch gives the princess

a poisonous apple which contains a spell which she gives to Snow White

which makes Snow White fall into a deep sleep and can only be broken

by a prince, so then the prince falls in love, kisses Snow White and

the spell is broken. In the story 'Jack And The Beanstalk' the giant

stands for the ogre, so in the story the giant chases Jack down the

beanstalk because Jack stole his golden eggs, goose and harp, then

Jack chops down the beanstalk and the giant dies. In 'Snow White' the

ogre is represented by the witch and in 'Jack & The beanstalk the ogre

is represented by a giant.

Language is an important device, and I am going to write about how

language can create the impression of good and evil in both in

characters, and in films. The film 'Shrek' opens with Shrek reading

the outline of a fairytale which commences by saying "On...

... middle of paper ...

.... I can also tell that Lord

Farquaad is evil because he dropped the fairytale characters at

Shrek's swamp without consent or permission and this is rude and when

Shrek asks Lord Farquaad to sort it out, 'over a pint', Lord Farquaad

decides to order his knights to kill Shrek and then decides to use

Shrek. Another scene where Lord Farquaad can by sees. Princess Fiona

turn into an ogre and referring to her as,'it', and still tries to say

he is king. The story of 'Shrek' uses presentational devices to

reverse our expectation, so that by the end of the film, the viewers

could see that Lords could be evil and ambitious and that ogres can be

kind and not man-eating monsters.

Perhaps the message of the story is that you can't judge a book by its

cover and you should get to know the person first and not judge them

at all.