How do the makers of Shrek reverse the traditions of a fairy tale?

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The makers of ‘Shrek’ use presentational devices to reverse the traditions of a fairy tale in its themes, characters and the story line itself.

Traditionally, a fairy story in a book would have a King and Queen they would live in a grand castle in a far away land their daughter a princess their only child, would be beautiful. However something happens to her which means that a rescue takes place from a hero a price, who is brave and also handsome they fall in love instantly and the King and Queen are so happy that they agree to the marriage of their daughter to the hero. They all live happily ever after in this traditional take.

In ‘Shrek’ the main character the Ogre is reading a fairy story aloud when he suddenly tears it up saying, “like that‘s ever going to happen.” There are other examples in the film that show how the film-makers reverse the traditions of what the audience expects in a fairy story. The language used by the characters, particularly Shrek, Princess Fiona and Lord Farquaad this is going to be the next focal point of my essay.

Characters traditionally, the character of Shrek would speak in the character voice. He would also be very loud and scary.

Example of this in the film is when Lord Farqaad’s soldiers chase after Donkey and Shrek, the main characters speaks with authority over the soldiers the run away, anther examples when.

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Is when the townsfolk come to take over Shrek’s swamp at the start of film the agare be hares in a traditional way when he speaks to them in a tone. He threatened that he will ‘make a soup from your freshly peeled skin. He goes on to say this is the part when you run away. They scream to each other before the town folk depart.

Shrek however in the film Shrek speaks in a tone and accent the audience would not expect accent. He is friendly in tone and non aggressive.

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