Shrek Book Report

would do to them if they were to be caught. Right after that the townspeople run away and Shrek starts laughing.

“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

After Shrek defeated the dragon, he was able to rescue Fiona. After he rescued Princess Fiona he realized that she was very different from what he imagined and she chastises him by saying that “[He] shouldn’t judge people before [he gets] to know them.” This eventually led to the atonement of the

The biggest ordeal Shrek faces is hears Fiona talking about herself being ugly. He's gotten ready to tell her her love her, then he thinks she's saying he's ugly. He leaves her. When he finds out from Donkey, she wasn't talking about him, he goes to stop the wedding and tell her he loves her.

Fairy tales are timeless entities that will always be relevant in people’s lives. Fairy tales and stories offer entertainment, advice, and moral examples. The creation of fairy tales is important in the development of social norms. Children everywhere would read fairy tales and learn from them. As a result, these fairy tales are translated into multiple languages and allows people with different backgrounds to understand and relate to the story. People take these stories and adapt them to life around them. Within these adaptations of the same story, it is normal to observe slight differences that contribute as evidence in identifying the culture or societies in which these stories come from. Whether it is the slang of the dialogue or the change of location, modern producers and writers are known to take these classic stories and adding a significant twist to adjust to their cultural agenda. The movie, The Princess and the Frog, is a modern example of writers and directors creating a modern twist to the popular story of the Brother Grimm’s The Frog King. The Princess and the Frog and The Frog King both encode the mores, values, and beliefs of the cultures of the societies from which they come because, even though they both have similar plot ideas, the differences of the location and the differences of the overall specific plotlines attribute to understanding how their own specific cultures influence the adaptation and the actual story.

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

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.

Peering into the treasure chest, a small gasp slipped out of Belle’s mouth as she began to see the truth about her friends. Laying on a crimson cloth was a book titled “Cinderella”. Delighted to find one of her favorite fairy tales, Belle sat under a tree and began to read. Her delight soon turned to disgust as she realized it was not the fairy tale she loved. Overcome at the gruesome, gory details of this version, Belle quickly slammed the

In the film Shrek, Shrek must stop the wedding between Lord Farquaad and Princess Fiona. Like all heroes of antiquity this final test must be completed alone. Shrek finds the truth from Donkey and understands who Princess Fiona is in her real form. Shrek, who is all the way in his swamp, needs to make it in time to stop the wedding in Duloc. This is where the Dragon, Shrek had defeated, came to help stop the wedding. Donkey had called this Dragon, fulfilling his job as a hero partner. The Dragon provided a way to get to the wedding just in time. As soon as Shrek got there, he ran into the church and stopped Princess Fiona and Lord Farquaad from giving each other a kiss. Shrek and Princess Fiona then expressed their feelings and love towards each other. As soon as they were about to kiss and be declared as husband and wife, Lord Farquaad gets his guards to hold them apart so he can complete the marriage with a kiss, becoming the king. This is where another divine intervention comes, in the form of the Dragon once again. The Dragon knocks down all of his guards. This is the time of sunset and Princess Fiona comes to her true form with the audience and Lord Farquaad being disgusted. Shrek and Fiona happily get married, but Princess Fiona remains an ogre finding out it is her true form. The completion of the final test is the most important element in a hero’s life and Shrek succeeds and is rewarded by

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

Shrek began as an animated movie from DreamWorks Studios in 2001 based on a children’s book of the same name. It was a huge success, spawning three sequels, a spin-off, and the musical adaption reviewed here. The movie, about the eponymous ogre hired to rescue Princess Fiona by Lord Farquaad, is an irreverent take on traditional fairy tale conventions, and subverts many of the most common archetypes found in fairy tales. Though tongue-in-cheek and at times slightly crude, the themes of reserving judgment and the value of friendship are distinct throughout.

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.

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.

The story begins with Heurodis falling asleep under a wood and having a dream that the King of the fairies has taken her away to his kingdom, and tells her that she will be coming to stay with him forever the next day. The queen awakes, distraught, and tears at her clothing and her face. When the king hears of her horrible dream, he orders many soldiers to watch over his queen while she sleeps the next day, though to no avail as the fairy king effortlessly takes her away with his magic. King Orfeo is utterly distraught and inconsolable. He abandons his kingdom for his steward to manage, and swears to never look upon another woman again as he takes to the woods without any of his material possessions, aside from his cloak and harp. He lives off nuts, roots, and bark for more than ten years while wandering aimlessly. He happens upon his wife one day among a group of ladies from the fairy kingdom. Heurodis recognizes her husband instantly, though the effects of ten years living in the wilderness has changed his appearance. Neither can speak from the shear shock and emotion of seeing each other. Orfeo follows Heurodis back to the fairy kingdom and gains permission to enter the castle by virtue of him being a minstrel. Once inside, Orfeo plays his harp for the fairy King who is in awe of his performance, and offers him whatever he wants. Orfeo demands to have Heurodis, and

He swears that he'll never go back downstairs to the dungeons. He enters the castle's banquet hall and is delighted to see a party going on. Instead of being cautious, Roscuro decides to make his way into the banquet hall and join the party. Roscuro spots a dazzling chandelier in the banquet hall and decides that this is the best place to watch all the action. So he scurries past all the people and makes it up to the chandelier unseen. But as he's hanging there, Princess Pea looks up and shouts that there's a rat. Roscuro is so startled and shocked by how ugly the word "rat" sounds that he lets go of the chandelier…and falls directly into the queen's bowl of