Shrek Satire Essay
Shrek
Shrek tells the tale of a lonely ogre trying to find his way though life in the forest. Along the way, he meets new friends, falls in love with a princess, fights a prince, and learns survival skills, all the while learning even more about himself. He realizes exactly what it means to be a good person, someone people can trust, as well as being comfortable in his own skin. Satire is the use of humour and with a critical attitude, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s activities and institutions such a folly, stupidity and vice. Shrek subverts fairy-tale traditions by making fun of numerous classic conventions by using unexpected events and characters, and by reversing things audiences would typically expect in a traditional fairy tale story. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson make this story a modern day version of fairy tales beliefs today where modern day values have changed.
Shrek, the protagonist of the story, is a green, ugly ogre with disgusting hygiene and that lives in a swamp which subverts to a traditional fairy-tale with the main character that is handsome, noble and lives in a castle. The opening scene of the movie Shrek, it exhibits classical music, often played in most fairy-tales to get the audience relaxed and calm. “Once upon a time” is an iconic fairy tale stater that is widely known around the world. Using this phrase allows the audience to realise that this film is about a fairy tale with the combination of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. Shrek, with his heavy Scottish accent, narrates the opening storybook with an angelic tone, but at the end, he shouts out “like that’s ever going to happen” then rips the page out which surprises the audience in such a way that it becomes humours. This scene shows reversal in characterisation through the comparison of traditional versus modern day aspects and gives parody through the way Shrek jokes around with his sarcasm.
The film subverts the
Shrek tells the tale of a lonely ogre trying to find his way though life in the forest. Along the way, he meets new friends, falls in love with a princess, fights a prince, and learns survival skills, all the while learning even more about himself. He realizes exactly what it means to be a good person, someone people can trust, as well as being comfortable in his own skin. Satire is the use of humour and with a critical attitude, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s activities and institutions such a folly, stupidity and vice. Shrek subverts fairy-tale traditions by making fun of numerous classic conventions by using unexpected events and characters, and by reversing things audiences would typically expect in a traditional fairy tale story. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson make this story a modern day version of fairy tales beliefs today where modern day values have changed.
Shrek, the protagonist of the story, is a green, ugly ogre with disgusting hygiene and that lives in a swamp which subverts to a traditional fairy-tale with the main character that is handsome, noble and lives in a castle. The opening scene of the movie Shrek, it exhibits classical music, often played in most fairy-tales to get the audience relaxed and calm. “Once upon a time” is an iconic fairy tale stater that is widely known around the world. Using this phrase allows the audience to realise that this film is about a fairy tale with the combination of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. Shrek, with his heavy Scottish accent, narrates the opening storybook with an angelic tone, but at the end, he shouts out “like that’s ever going to happen” then rips the page out which surprises the audience in such a way that it becomes humours. This scene shows reversal in characterisation through the comparison of traditional versus modern day aspects and gives parody through the way Shrek jokes around with his sarcasm.
The film subverts the