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Character Analysis : Shrek, And The Movie

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Do your looks truly define who you are on the inside? In the movie, despite his ugliness, Shrek’s love is depicted better in the movie, than in the picture book. Shrek was portrayed as an ugly ogre who was judged by the whole town because of that. People would run away in fright at the sight of him, and it made him upset. In the book, Shrek was proud to be ugly and wanted everyone to be afraid.
At the beginning of the movie, Shrek is doing his daily routine, and we get a glimpse of how gross he actually is. He takes a mud shower, and then proceeds to clean his teeth with bugs. He jumps into the swamp, and we see the water bubbling and fish floating to the surface. After being in the mucky swamp, he pulls a leech off of his leg and puts it …show more content…

The only creature that does not judge Shrek for the way he looks is the donkey. His character is similar in both the movie and the picture book. Donkey wants to be Shrek’s friend and does not flee from him. In fact, Shrek gets annoyed in the movie because Donkey will not leave him alone. He actually wants to stay with him and help him on his journey to find the princess in both the movie and the book.
In the movie, we meet Princess Fiona. She is beautiful and is looking for her Prince Charming. Shrek is far from a handsome prince and is not what Fiona was expecting. It turns out, Fiona was not a normal princess, but actually a secret ogre at night. This is ironic because she would make fun of Shrek during the day and get angry at how he was not supposed to rescue her since he was not handsome.
We see Princess Fiona in her ogre form for the first time towards the middle of the movie. She is with donkey and does not want Shrek to find out what she has turned into. Shrek overhears Fiona talking about how ugly she is and he assumes they are talking about him. His feelings are hurt and the belief that he is ugly and incapable of love or marriage is officially set in his mind.
In the book, Princess Fiona is ugly from the start. “There before him was the most stunningly ugly princess on the surface of the planet” (Steig 25). Since she was as ugly as Shrek, there was no question if Shrek was too

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