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 fairytales there are Princes such as prince charming, but they are the only kind of prince you are normally going to find, where…
