Film Shrek: A Hero's Journey

But in one of the scenes, where Shrek, Fiona and Donkey are in the woods, the Marry Men show up. At this moment it is Fiona who takes action against the men and ends up beating them up. While this is happening Shrek and Donkey are sitting there staring. Fiona takes care of all the men while Shrek and Donkey do absolutely nothing to help. This event surprised the two of them that they were speechless when she was done. So in Fairytales it is usually the prince that has to save the princess from evil but this changes everything.

“Shrek!” involves an ugly and repulsive creature, named Shrek, who meets a witch that tells him of an ugly princess that he decides to search for. Along his journey, Shrek encounters other creatures on his way to the castle of the ugly princess. Shrek finds his way to this ugly princess, marries her, and they both live on together spreading fear wherever they go (Steig). In Charles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” the king and queen’s daughter is cursed to fall into a deep sleep when she pierces her finger on a spindle. This comes to pass and the princess along with the rest of those in the castle fall into a deep sleep until a prince comes and awakens her. He marries her, they have children, and they go back to his kingdom where the prince’s ogress mother attempts to eat Sleeping Beauty and her children but is saved by a servant and the prince (Perrault). In the DreamWorks production, Shrek, the ogre, Shrek, has his land overtaken pushing him to see Lord Farquaad who directs him to find him Princess Fiona for him to marry. Along with his new companion, Donkey, Shrek goes on a journey to rescue Fiona from her tower and bring her back to Lord Farquaad so that he may marry her to make himself king. Shrek intervenes rescuing her from Lord

Watching a film, one can easily recognize plot, theme, characterization, etc., but not many realize what basic principle lies behind nearly every story conceived: the hero’s journey. This concept allows for a comprehensive, logical flow throughout a movie. Once the hero’s journey is thoroughly understood, anyone can pick out the elements in nearly every piece. The hero’s journey follows a simple outline. First the hero in question must have a disadvantaged childhood. Next the hero will find a mentor who wisely lays out his/her prophecy. Third the hero will go on a journey, either literal or figurative, to find him/herself. On this journey the hero will be discouraged and nearly quit his/her quest. Finally, the

Farquaad is about to marry Fiona and Shrek wants to apologize to her. By spending time with Fiona, Shrek has become a better person, with a heart and is able to apologize. Farquaad's men attack Shrek. All the people laugh at Shrek being ugly. Shrek doesn't care and still tells Fiona he loves her.

Since there are two climaxes to the movie, the return can either be after the capture of the princess or after Fiona declares her love for Shrek. The refusal of the return is Shrek not wanting to bring Fiona to Lord Farquaad due to him falling in love with her. Campbell explains the

Lord Farquaad has prejudice against magical creatures. This is shown when he has ordered that the magical creatures be exiled to the forest. This action also illustrates the discrimination that the magical creatures experienced due to Lord Farquaad’s personal prejudices. The magical creatures were showed to be treated like criminals, taken into carts and placed in cages. Furthermore, Lord Farquaad also has prejudice against ogres. He identifies and calls Shrek as “it”, connoting that he thinks of himself as superior to an ogre like Shrek. And when Fiona first meets Farquaad, she was explaining that she is just saying goodbye to Shrek, Lord Farquaad told her not to waste time on Shrek because it doesn’t have any feelings. When Fiona turned into an ogre on her

People have always watched fairytales at a very young age, growing up to believe in them. Some watched them to obtain some kind illusion, for pure entertainment, and others for the sake of love. However, not every fairytale has a purpose of giving us an illusion, of entertaining us, or making us believe in love. Shrek is not a typical fairytale. Even though many people see Shrek along with other fairytales as any other movie created for entertainment, it is a satirical critique of the archetypes involved in a fairytale. While in many fairytales we have a knight, a damsel in distress, a partner, and a villain, Shrek changes

Shrek the musical follows the same storyline of the original movie Shrek. The ogre Shrek is a lone wolf protective of his swamp. Until the other fairytale characters being to intrude upon his swamp. Leading Shrek to have a word with the Lord Farquaad. Farquaad who then gives Shrek a mission the bring Farquaad a Princess. Farquaad will clear Shrek’s swamp of the intruders. Thankfully Shrek saves the princess and delivers the princess. The ending is a bit of twist. If you want to know more you’ll have to see the musical February 27- March 6, 2016.

Shrek leaves his ordinary world when he leaves his house, then goes to the Lord’s castle. Shrek leaves the Lord’s castle sets his way out to the castle which encases Princess Fiona. Donkey, Shrek’s mentor, helps Shrek throughout his tests. Shrek’s enemy is prevailed as soon as the movie starts. Shrek’s rival would be Lord Farquaad because he wishes to only marry the princess, so he can be a monarch. The earliest test would be where Shrek goes against the Lord’s men in a fight. This is where the Lord decided Shrek’s expedition. Without Donkey, Shrek would have never found the Lord’s castle. Shrek proceeds to go through another test. He must rescue Princess Fiona from the highest room in the tallest tower, without dying from the dragon or the lava that encircles the fortress where Fiona is held hostage until someone liberates her from her bedroom in the

4. When Princess Fiona is rescued, she is the embodiment of a damsel-in-distress who was waiting for her "prince" to come rescue her. Later on in the film, she stands up for herself and does not wait to be rescued, breaking stereotypes based on sex and gender.

The movie “Clash of the Titans” directed by Louis Leterrier is an old Greek myth that takes place in ancient time of the Greek Gods in the city of Argos, where there is a war between humans and Gods. The religious aspects are shown through the role of religion in mortal's lives, the influences of the Gods over humans, and the interactions of the mortals to the Gods' actions. The movie personifies on a realistic foundation of how ancient Greeks lived. While the hero Perseus is torn between the two worlds of humans and Gods, he learns who he is, and what he wants to be. The hero journey’s idea that is based upon The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell mainly focuses on the physical and spiritual transformation the hero goes

All throughout history, heroes from all types of stories have gone through the same journey. Joseph Campbell researched several stories as well as Greek mythology and created a template that every main character or hero follows in each story. Campbell stated that each hero begins his journey in his normal world until he experiences a call to action, which causes the hero to find a mentor and go through several tests and other setbacks until he faces his biggest fear and eventually finishes his quest and returns home. In the Disney movie Hercules, the main character, for which the film is named, follows the journey laid out by Campbell. Hercules follows this journey from his normal life, which he lives until he is called to action and meets

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.

Many encounters emerge in princess movies in which the women find solutions to themselves. For instance, throughout their adventures, Tiana is seen guiding her travels with Prince Naveen. She guides them through a swamp as well as catches food for them (at this time they are both frogs) (Whelan). Similarly, while traveling, Rapunzel saves Flynn and herself from a tavern full of ruffians, castle officials who were tracking Flynn, and also from drowning in a cave (Stephens). Tiana and Rapunzel’s intelligence or even cleverness was utilized to remove them from sticky situations which would have resulted in danger if not for their assisting actions. Other princesses went against common opinion in order to help others. In Beauty and the Beast, most people in the town think Belle’s father (Maurice) is crazy, but Belle still believes in her father’s abilities in invention making and supports him in the pursuit of his dreams (Whelan). By disagreeing with a widely accepted belief, Belle proves herself to be an accepting individual who does not let other’s opinions alter her perspective of a person. Jasmine also does something out of the ordinary in order to help her lover Aladdin. Jasmine “dares to kiss the sinister Jafar” hoping that this will distract him, and allow Aladdin to escape

In the 1991 movie Beauty and the Beast the Narrator said, “She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.” this quote refers to the archetypal theme of the Beauty and the Beast.However, this archetypal theme of Beauty and the Beast is coincidentally parallel to the Shrek movie.This essay will broaden your view on the themes of Beauty and the Beast and Shrek, . When the fairy tale story Beauty and the Beast is evaluated from the critical viewpoints of Archetypal, Feminism, and Morals, readers may discover that Shrek shares the same viewpoints.