Descriptive Essay About Shrek

Shrek is a territorial, lonely, and somewhat of a nice ogre. He lives all alone in

in the chamber they might get a bit scared but then the film eases the

How the Makers of Shrek Subvert the Usual Conventions of a Fairytale Using Presentational Devices

In the beginning, Shrek enjoys living in the solidarity of his own swamp. After saving donkey, Shrek gets the message that Lord Farquaad wants all fairytale characters out of the royal city of Duloc, and that he will be dumping all the fairytale characters into Shrek’s swamp. Shrek, who loves being alone but is now bombarded with all the fairytale characters, is furious. Shrek goes and visits Lord Farquaad, and is told that if he rescues Princess Fiona, he can get his beloved swamp back.

She is very illustrative and severe in her characterization. She states metaphorically how is his physical aspect, in one part she says: “some anomalous gene had fired up at the moment of his begetting as a single spark sometimes leaps from banked coils, had given him a giant’s chin”, in this sentence, she uses a cause and effect syntax to characterize his physical defects. This type of syntax causes a better understanding of his nature; an afflictive person that most of the time does not do anything to change. She describes how ugly he is and provokes an unpleasant perception of this character with the purpose to reveal the effects of a disturbed

His size 27 jeans look as if they might fall off of him at any given moment, and if it weren’t for his lengthy torso I’m sure he would need a kids size in shirts. His bones portrude from his skin bringing his veins to the surface. I swear you can see the blood flow through them. His cheeks cave in bringing his facial structure out like knives. I worry that if I touch them they might slice my delicate skin. It’s been doing it to him for years. As my eyes meet the dark hooded ovals that look almost like a home of what once belonged to a bat, I see a light.

Shrek a green ogre who loves the isolation in his swamp finds his life interrupted by many fairytale characters who are outlaw by order of the fairytale-hating Lord Farquaad. With the help of mixed fairy-tale creatures, including a talking donkey, Shrek attempts to earn back his home, and in the process wins something much more. Shrek shows all the steps of an epic hero but I believe he were an anti-hero, despite his deceivingly unusual exterior. The main assistance that Shrek receives is from an unlikely source by a small grey donkey named Donkey. Donkey helps Shrek in several ways:

My artifact is brown and black with almost 2 decades’ worth of memories; this object is my stuffed Rottweiler named Max. This artifact, although motionless with four legs, has walked to the moon and back with me as a child full of imagination. This artifact stores the most precious memories and has been with me at every step in my life. Max is very meaningful to me because we have shared many memories, from birth until now. My stuffed animal has been with me through every ups and downs in life, every change that has ever occurred to me, has been a part my past and present; and represents my future.

Growing up, most people read fairytales such as “Cinderella” and “Little Red Riding Hood”. These stories set up some sort of expectation for what life will be like. However, fairytales are just as messed up as life. DreamWorks created the movie Shrek to make fun of fairytale’s social prejudge and idealism. Shrek uses reversal and irony to create a satire about the flaws of fairytales.

First, the creature reveals emotions of his “ ‘Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust. God in pity, made man beautiful and alluring after his own image; but resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorrded.” The event which bring out these feelings are when he finds a lethern portoutue with several books on the ground. The creature rushes off to read them and making the creature feels hopeless and discouraged due to his appearance. He realized his creator made him hideous looking, extremely oversized and thus scary questioning here he came from and who he was? His creator and not God made him looks like this becoming self-conscious and discourage about what people will think of him. The amplification of the creatures emotions

His eyebrows were massive almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale and the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.” (Stoker)

As the figure moved into the room and shut the door behind them I was relieved to discover that it was not a monster, but a man. With a few more steps he stepped into the light and I was able to clearly see the his face including all of the little details that made up his appearance. From observation alone I could see that he was much older than me, his hair was short and white but with no signs of any thinning. He also had a small beard that didn't come out very far, but I imagined that it suited him far better than long one. As he came closer I saw that his eyes were a light grey colour and above them sat a pair of thin eyebrows that were as white as the hair on his head. Further down his face I noticed how pale his lips were and that his

I may be one of the select few, but I often find myself in a nostalgic mood. Much of this is remembering things I overlooked. Memorizing the cover instead of looking into the pages. It’s an unfortunate lifestyle. Now this may sound somewhat infantile, but I’ve been rewatching the movie, Shrek, and I can’t stop. If you don’t know by now, Shrek is a satirical fairy tale while also making fun of other fairy tales; however, the icing on the cake would have to be the message that this cinematic masterpiece conveys, and how it’s different from any fairy tale you’ve ever heard.

Shrek and Reversal of Fairytale Tradition Shrek directed Andrew Andamson and Vicky Jenson by contradicts the traditional view of a fairytale characters and settings. Although your first impressions may lead you to believe that that the story is totally different to a traditional fairytale looking more closely you find that there are a few similarities. This essay will be looking at the characters and the different presentational devises used to show how fairytale traditions are reversed. The presentational devices which are looked at are camera angles, lighting and music. In a traditional fairytale you would expect to find a prince and a princess who fall in love and live happily ever after.

From the very beginning of time fairy tales have been used to inject a sense of paranoia within children, a kind of fear that would induce disturbing thoughts and emotions to trick a child into good behavior. Fairy tales are gripping, magical, and slightly uncomfortable. Some fairy tales, if not a good majority of them are euphemism that mask the truth of horrific historical events. Others are stories are based on legends that included spiritual beliefs of a culture. Each bogey represented something in the world that children should look out for and recognize if they were ever to be in a situation that resembled the story they were read. The ogre played a vital role in fairytales during the 17th and 18th century,