In traditional fairytales, 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 analyze the characters of Shrek and Lord Farquaad, and write about how filmmakers use different presentational devices to create an unusual fairytale. In conforming …
showed first 75 words of 1424 total

showed last 75 words of 1424 total
…ending. All in all this film uses traditional fairytale characters brought to you using presentational devices which change the effect of these characters full circle. At first these presentational devices show you them as traditional characters howling, being good for the normally good characters and evil for Shrek. But this has a reversal of trend, Shrek ends up as the good guy and Lord Farquaad comes out of the film nearly as evil as Hitler