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Shrek Movie Analysis
Fairy tales don 't always follow the same boring pattern; beautiful princess falls in love with her prince charming and they live happily ever after. The movie Shrek, an ogre and beautiful princess fall in love, though this beautiful princess has a secret; her secret is that by day a beautiful princess, and by night an ugly ogre, at least in her eyes. Shrek thought she was beautiful as a human and as an ogre; this hidden message is shown as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Also in the movie, another implied message is that people are prejudice to stereotypes. Though, once you truly know some one, it can be really wonderful and life changing.

In Shrek, Princess Fiona is a beautiful princess who is locked away in a tower awaiting her knight in shinning armor. She was locked away in a tower and guarded by a dragon because her parents locked her away due to a curse put on her by a witch when she was child, "By night one way, by day another, Thus shall be the norm, Till you receive true love 's kiss, then, take love 's true form.", meaning as night falls, she turns into an “ugly” ogre. Shrek interrupts the wedding and kisses Princess Fiona, sharing their true loves kiss, which causes Princess Fiona to change into an ogre. Princess Fiona says “Yes. But, I don 't understand. I 'm supposed to be beautiful.” Shrek replies “But you are beautiful.” This teaches a great life lesson, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You may not think you 're not beautiful, but some one else might think you are.

“Don 't Judge a book by it 's cover” is a very commonly used quote, as well as honest and true. This quote is never stated in Shrek but it is strongly applied in a few situations throughout the movie. When Lord Farquaad is choosing which princess to rescue, he chooses Princess Fiona because his guards told him to. Also, all the village people assume Shrek was a mean human eating ogre, when in fact, he was just highly guarded and enjoyed scaring the humans. Shrek was very


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