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Shrek's Message

In traditional fairy tales, ogres are man-eating beasts. The prince usually rescues the princess, they marry and live happily ever after. How do the makers of 'Shrek' use presentational devices to reverse this tradition, to reveal the Ogre as good, and the Prince as evil?

In this essay I am going to analyse the characters of Shrek and Lord Farquaad and write about how the film makers use different interpretations making Shrek as good and the Prince as evil to create an unusual fairytale.

In traditional fairytales they start with an elaborate book which opens up to tell the story, gradually each page of the book turns to reveal the next page. The book starts by telling the …show more content…

The storybook characters react by running away screaming this suggests Shrek seems like a traditional ogre because like 'Jack and the beanstalk' ogres and giants like the taste of humans "Fe fi fo fum I smell the blood of an Englishman".

When Donkey approaches, Shrek roars at him and tries to intimidate him, Donkey is not frightened and Donkey responds to Shrek by laughing at him and is not intimated. Donkey says "You need some tic-tacs" Donkey ridicules Shrek about his bad breath. Donkey questions Shrek; Shrek shouts "What am I?" Shrek emplys that he is a monster but it doesn't scare Donkey. Donkey is very irritating towards Shrek he runs into Shreks house and bounces on his chair. Shrek does not succeed when he tries to stop Donkey, which suggests that Shrek isn't really a terrifying ogre! Unbeknown to Shrek fairytale characters have been evicted by Lord Farquaad and came to Shreks swamp. Shrek noticed three mice on his table and up his shoulder. It is comedy as he fails to catch the mice. Shrek shouts "I'm a terrifying

Ogre, what do I have to do to get a little privacy?" The behaviour of Donkey and the mice suggests that Shrek maybe not as frightening as an ogre should

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