Shrek and traditional fairy tales.

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Shrek

In traditional fairy tales, 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 traditition, to reveal the ogre as good, and the prince as evil?

In traditional fairy tales there is always a villain, a hero and a heroine. However, the makers of "Shrek" have not made the film traditional as the hero is an ogre and the villain is the prince. The traditional roles in this film are reversed.

The beginning of the film leads the audience into believing it is a traditional fairy tale because it starts off with "once upon a time", soft music and a narrator. There is a giant book with a start, middle and an end. The start is happy, the middle is evil, sad and the end is happy. So far the Audience believe they are watching a traditional fairy tale.

However our expectations are abruptly shattered as the ogre rips a page out of the giant book an uses that page to use in the toilet thus showing a sign of disrespect towards the fairytale. Then,