The Fairy Tales In Shrek II By Jessica Tiffin

hrek too several is just a funny good-hearted kid’s movie, that almost any child has seen. Shrek is not comparable numerous of the traditional fairy tales that people learn about as a child. Shrek did not date back to centuries ago, it was not told orally, then someone wrote it down, and it has not been rewritten in other countries and changed due to different cultures. While Shrek is a unique modern tale about Ogres, talking animals, magic and more surprises it is also a spoof and audience should recognize common characters. In the article “Shrek and Shrek II” by Jessica Tiffin, she presents the fairy tales that have the biggest relevant in the film Shrek, not only are they the biggest relevant they are also the highly incorporated. These

The fairy tale creatures are seen in the movie when, they are up for sale, when they are in Shrek’s swamp and all together again at the end of the story. “Various references to figures from both fairy tale and children’s nursery rhyme—pigs, wolves, Snow White, Robin Hood, the Gingerbread Man, and the Three Blind Mice. (Tiffin ln 23-25). These are the characters that people would pick up on. There are also scenes throughout the movie, however, that are mixed in as if they are supposed to be in there. One scene that stuck out after watching the movie closely, is the scene with Robin Hood and Princess Fiona. Princess Fiona fights off Robin Hood and all the men so they do not capture her. Another well-incorporated scene that is from Snow White is when Lord Farquaad is asking the talking mirror who he should marry. Tiffin briefly mentions the magic mirror, and how it is in Snow White, but does not talk about it as closely as she does the other stories. The mirror he is asking and talks to is the talking mirror forms, Snow White. When Lord Farquaad gets the talking mirror, he even starts out by asking it “mirror, mirror on the wall, is this not a perfect kingdom of them all”. In Snow White, the Evil Queen would ask, “mirror, mirror of them all, who is the fairest of them all?” so in Shrek it mimics what is happening in Snow White, having Lord Farquaad who is evil such as the queen has the mirror, and similar lines are even recycled as the queen has said. They are also having Farquaad participate with the mirror since he too is the villain in the movie as the Evil Queen is. In this scene is when the mirror presents to Farquaad who his options are to marry. His three options which are other fairy characters are Cinderella, Snow White, and Fiona. While there are a large number of people who already know who Cinderella and Snow White are, Fiona is the one