The Hero’s Journey is a myth that has been created in many story lines taken from real life experiences. It portrays a story about a hero that leaves his or her ordinary world and continues an adventures journey into an unfamiliar world. The hero departs into the special world and faces trials in his journey to the big fight after winning the fight. The hero will be rewarded by treasure that will bring resolution to when he returns to his ordinary world. In the Disney movie Shrek, the Hero’s journey idea is clearly applied. In this Story, Shrek is portrayed as the hero who makes a deal with an evil lord to rescue a princess from a dragon guarded castle in exchange for his swamp(Privacy). The Hero’s Journey clock begins in the hero’s ordinary …show more content…
world called status quo that encounters a sudden change. That change is the call to adventure which will lead the hero to seek assistance. The Hero with the help of their assistants will face the unfamiliar worlds trials and challenges before the heroic action. In the opening scene, the character Shrek is an ogre that is comfortable in an isolated and unhygienic living condition in his swamp. The original setting of Shrek’s life is portrayed as the status quo of his hero’s journey clock on the time line of his story. Shrek paints a "BEWARE. OGRE" sign and posts it in front of his house this shows that He wants to live alone. Shrek’s ordinary world becomes disrupted when one night he finds his swamp trespassed by many fairy tale creatures that was banished to his land by an evil lord named lord Farquaad.
The change that instigates Shrek ‘s ordinary life is the call to adventure that triggers Shrek to start a journey to protect his swamp. When Shrek found the three blind mice on his dinning table and the big bad wolf on his bed, He said “I live on a swamp. I put up signs and I am a terrifying ogre .WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET A LITTLE PRIVACY??!!..” While finding that there are a lot outside. After Pinocchio’s deliberate explanation of why they ended up in Shrek’s swamp. Shrek announces that their welcome is worn out, that he will see Farquaad right now so that he can get them all off his swamp and back where they all came from. That’s when the hero, Shrek depart the ordinary world to embark on an …show more content…
adventure. In many different journey’s the hero usually receive help.
Shrek asks, “Who knows where this Farquaad guy is?” then donkey replies “I do I know where he is.” However, Shrek asks one more time “Does anyone else know where to find him?” – Donkey replied Jumping “ME..ME I KNOW WHERE HE IS …PICK ME.” On Shrek’s call to adventure he chooses his “trustee Steed” donkey to accompany him on his adventure to meet lord Farquaad. In the Hero’s Journey the hero before leaving to the special world they acquire assistants. Most of the assistants are wise and old characters but in a parody movie they might be funny and notorious characters. Donkey is a hyperactive, talkative, funny, sensitive donkey with buckteeth. He enjoys singing, idle chatter and often speaks Ebonics, but proves rather annoying around Shrek. Donkey and Shrek’s first encounter happened when Shrek is posting “KEEP OUT “posters in the forest and end up saving donkey from the soldiers. After that moment Shrek and donkey became
acquaintance. Shrek and Donkey reach the castle at Duloc. The parking lot is arranged like the one at Disneyland. Shrek remarks that it must be Lord Farquaad's castle. Shrek and Donkey hear fanfare and go in that direction. Lord Farquaad is high upon a balcony announcing that the winner will have the privilege to go rescue Princess Fiona. Shrek and Donkey march past the soldiers, then Farquaad instead tells the soldiers that the one who kills the ogre will be named champion. Shrek bursts open a wine barrel to slip up some knights, then slides through the brew, swinging at them with one of their axes like a hockey player. Donkey climbs onto the other barrel and rolls over some more knights. When more knights arrive, Shrek jumps into a corral and fights them like a professional wrestler. The trials on Shrek’s heroic journey lead him to fight a bunch of knights in an armor. He wins the fight with donkeys help and lord Farquaad uses this chance and made a proposition for Shrek to bring him princess Fiona in exchange for his swamp to be cleared out of fairytale creatures. Shrek agrees with lord Farquaad proposition and He heads out to rescue the princess with his help donkey. The approach part of the hero’s journey clock takes place here. After a long journey, Shrek and Donkey reach a footbridge over a river of lava leading to the castle. However, Donkey gets afraid to cross, but Shrek backs him up, tricking him to cross. Inside the castle, Shrek and Donkey go separate ways to look for stairs so they can reach Princess Fiona. In Shrek’s adventure this is the time line where he approaches the treasure, which is Fiona, guarded behind the crisis(dragon). The crisis in this journey begins when Donkey gets captured by the dragon who seems to be attracted to donkey because he keeps complimenting the dragon’s teeth. When Shrek tried to save donkey and grabs the dragons tail, Shrek get whacked to Fiona’s room. Shrek wakes Fiona up who was apparently expecting a romantic gesture and tells her to “HURRY UP, princess we have to leave.” Shrek saves donkey who was being nurtured by the dragon, then Shrek grabs Donkey and Fiona as the dragon chases them, repeatedly breathing fire. They crisscross the castle and the chain tangles around all the pillars. Shrek locks the chain into the floor with a sword. As they run across the bridge the dragon burns half of it up, but they make it safely across. The dragon tries to fly after them, but the chain holds it back. The crisis in this journey is averted when the hero, Shrek saves the day and avoid being burned to death in a river of lava. The treasure myth is another part of this hero’s journey story that Shrek experiences. Shrek overcomes series obstacles that transform him on the process. When the three was going back to lord Farquaad they encounter Robin hood who has mistaken Fiona as a “Damsel in distress” and need saving. In the sequence of events Fiona shows of her fighting skills and at that moment Shrek and Fiona begin bonding romantically. In this hero’s journey story, the treasure is the princess that Shrek falls in love with. At Shrek’s status quo he is an isolated and mean character to bond and develop feelings for Fiona indicates that Fiona is Shrek’s treasure. In the Hero’s Journey myth, the hero starts from his or her status quo and gets called to an adventure. The hero will acquire assistance to face the trials in their journey and avert the crisis to get to their treasure. Shrek lived in an isolated swamp with danger signs around to not let people trespass. Which was an unhygienic environment is triggered one night with a call to adventure. Donkey as Shrek’s assistant embark on an adventure to clear out the swamp but suddenly end up agreeing to a deal with an evil lord. After agreeing to rescue a princess in exchange for his privacy, Shrek finds himself fallen in love with a princess that he rescued from a crisis. After finding out that Fiona is an ogre and a fairy tale kiss the heroic Shrek will return to his swamp with a resolution that he found true love and will never live a lonely life again.
Presentational Devices of Shrek and Reversal of Traditional Roles In this essay, I am going to analyse the characters in 'Shrek'. I will mainly focus on Shrek and Lord Farquuad. I will also write about how the film makers use different presentational devices to create an unusual film. Stereotypically the prince is good and the ogre is evil. In traditional fairy tales ogres are pictured as man-eating beasts, while the Princes are tall, handsome and save the Princess.
In this essay I am going to analyse the characters of shrek and Lord Farquaad, and write about how filmmakers use different camera angles, lighting, music and setting to create an unusual fairy tale. The giant in jack and the beanstalk is what we expect of giants/ogres. In traditional fairy tales ogres are normally man-eating beast, at the beginning of shrek, shrek is what you expect him to be like. When the farmers go to his swamp and the meet shrek. When shrek is shouting at them the low angle camera shot makes shrek look intimidating to the crowd and audience.
Shrek’s endeavor closely follows the structure of the journey of the hero, as he departs from his swamp, initiates an adventure of saving his wife, and returns to his old life with new developments. After saving Fiona, Shrek does not gain anything physically; however, he gains knowledge that he originally did not have, and grows emotionally. He is able to accept Fiona’s parents, and learns that they are actually kind hearted people, despite their royal demeanor. Shrek understands what Fiona has gone through on her parent’s side, helping him strengthen his love. The journey of the hero may follow the heroes’ physical steps and accomplishments, but it also assists heroes in transcending and breaking through their old barriers into new ones of knowledge and confidence.
The hero’s journey is an outline that maps out stories and adventures. It is used to describe a layout of events, whether they are mundane or not. These steps explain how Marty McFly, from the popular movie Back to the Future, gets pushed into an adventure, changes the outcome of the future, and is forced to fix his mistakes and find a way home.
In the movie ‘Shrek,’ the story begins in what is called the Ordinary World. To Shrek, the hero of this story, this Ordinary Word is a quiet swamp where he spends his time by himself. Shrek is a very grumpy and reclusive character and his only desires are to enjoy his life alone and to get rid of anyone that may enter his swamp. Throughout Shrek's life he has been treated like a monster so over time he has picked up the mentality that he is really a horrifying creature and that this is how the world expects him to act. The Swamp suits Shrek rather well because it gives him a place where he can relax and be himself without people screaming in terror just from looking
The hero’s journey can be seen as a set of laws or challenges that every hero faces through their own journey(Christopher Vogler). The hero’s journey is used as a general term such as all
The characters in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe are symbolic of other characters featured in the Bible. Peter, the eldest child, became the “rock” everyone clung to. He waged the war against the white witch and he is a representation of the Apostle Peter. Susan, the second eldest child, is seen as the nonbeliever who must always have facts. She is a represe...
The main character in this story is a donkey named Bruno. He played a magical role by being able to be a prince donkey. What was magical about the whole story was the people and creatures look at each other in different ways. As on earth, here in real life, people do not get the real magical idea of life.
written by William Steig in 1990 (“Shrek!”). The plot of the book and the film are similar in some ways, but the film adaptation creatively incorporates many different fairy tales into its plot to create a new fairy tale. Some of the fairy tales characters included in the plot are the Gingerbread Man from The Gingerbread Man, Magic Mirror from Snow White, and the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. For the creators to pull multiple elements of different stories into their own, they used intertextuality, as opposed to allusion, to mold the story into a single universe, where each character feels as though they belong in said
hero's journey is this formula were a hero in a story go through multiple steps to get closer and closer to a hero. The Hobbit ¨By J.R.R.Tolkien¨is about this hobbit getting chosen to go on this journey to slay a dragon and Bilbo (the hobbit) forced into the journey somewhat. A Long Way Gone¨By Ishmael Beah¨ is about this kid that is running away from rebels and had to join the army to kill thousands of rebels, take over rebel towns, and did lots of drugs. Both characters in these text do go on some similar and some different parts in the hero's journey.
The Hero’s Journey is a genre of text that describes the adventures of the archetypal character “The Hero”. The Hero’s Journey is a narrative that was identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell. Two narratives that clearly represents and show the typical story line of The Hero’s Journey are The Hobbit, By J.R. Tolkien and Shrek, By Ted Elliot, both of these stories conduct of the archetypal character “The Hero” starting as a mediocre person and getting a challenge set for them before they set off to overcome the challenge and on this journey they learn valuable skills and return from the journey with a new way of looking at life.
Animated Film Shrek The animated film “Shrek” deals with issues and outcomes of avoiding change, but also ultimately conveying change is inevitable. Within the beginning of the film, Shrek is portrayed to be an intimidating, aggressive, cruel and lonely ogre who has no friendly form of interaction with any other life. He secludes himself from the world because he fears there judging views; Shrek without a doubt believes he is atrociously tormenting to look at, therefore hides his belief by concealing it under his aggression towards all forms of life. Through the opening scene of the film, where Shrek is within an outhouse reading a fairytale, with the typical ending line he read “… and they lived happily ever after”, Shrek sniggers whilst tearing the page out and sarcastically says “yeah right, as if that’s ever going to happen”, this displays Shrek’s unworthy attitude of life but also his pessimism is exaggerated through his degrading words and sarcastic perspective.
The animated film Shrek is a Dreamworks fairy tale that teaches us to look beyond what we expect to see, by completely subverting the traditional fairy tale concepts of gender, appearance and beauty. The characters in Shrek are vastly different from what we would expect to see in their appearance and behaviour. With unexpected plot twists, the directors of Shrek create important messages and morals that would not usually be conveyed, using techniques such as humour. The techniques have been placed strategically to result in an entertaining and educational film.
ogre at night for the rest of her life, but when the spell is released
One well-known example of “The Hero’s Journey” from popular culture is the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling. In the novel, Harry Potter, the main character, is the chosen one and “The Hero’s Journey” applies to his life from the moment he is attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named as a baby. Joseph Campbell calls the initial phase of a hero’s development the “Call to Adventure.” The call is the in... ...