The irony is in the end “…they lived happily ever after”, but ideally within the film change was absent in the beginning, and as the filmed progressed change was entwined silently. Involuntarily change crept on Shrek allowing self, emotional and personal change to occur. And furthering accepting the change, as reality is change is inevitable.
Lyrics of a Song – “Breakaway”
Song lyrics “Breakaway” sung by Kelly Clarkson explores the need to change and the significant steps of reality for change to occur. The song reveals that there is a path to freedom, and how to separate from the consistent conformed way of life; it also enlightens responders to view the difference between the desolate past (unchangeable) and the present (changing/changes) with choices for change, for a better future (change).
The use of rhyme is to allow the lyrics of the song to embed into responders minds, in order for them to remember and understand the lyrics easier, rhyme enhances the atmosphere of the song to be down to earth and realistic. “So I pray (I would pray) I could breakaway … I'll make a wish I'll take a risk take a chance make a change”, the clearly stated simple steps and actions of what must undergo for change to occur.
Repetition of the title “Breakaway” evokes the sense of necessity to do so; the word (title) is brought up throughout the song to persuade and lure responders to take the opportunity to follow upon a different path, to change from the usual and “breakaway”.
Throughout the lyrics of “Breakaway” there is also use of symbolism, such as “I’ll spread my wings and I’ll learn how to fly, I’ll do what it takes till I touch the sky” symbolically indicating the wings are the chances in life, and in spreading them your taking chances for change, to reach out and take the opportunities given/found. “Want to feel the warm breeze, sleep under a palm tree, feel the rush of the ocean, get onboard a fast train, travel on a jet plane, far away”, using nature and senses to allow responders to feel and understand the symbolism within each phrase. The symbols exhibit unbounded, unlimited, free, vast, spacious representations of the incentives of change.
Essentially the lyrics convey how the past cannot be erased or changed, but presently pending are the infinite choices in life that will allow change to occur in the future, because the past cannot be changed only the future.
Part Three
Change is a constant, and an inevitable within life. The outcomes of change can either be positive or negative, but ultimately in the end at least an attempt was undergone, rather than having known the situation and allowing it to worsen, similarly as demonstrated within the animated film “Shrek”, song lyrics “Breakaway” by Kelly Clarkson, poem “The Door” by Miroslav Holub and “Humans in Their Environment” from Flacco’s Burnt Offerings. But change often occurs involuntarily, as opposed to the purpose pursuit for change which occasionally attaches the sense of how “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. My understanding of change has been influentially shaped by all 4 texts, as each separate text reveals the number of ways change is raised, encountered, constant and inevitable. The 4 texts have also enhanced my understanding of change in the sense that it revolves around the past, present and future, where the past is irreparable, but presently are the numerous choices and chances that can be taken to allow a different future, a better or worse future, a change from the past.
The poem and song lyrics, embrace similar meanings through also very similar techniques, for example: from the poem the repetition of “Go and open the door” in conjunction with “Breakaway”. Both text stresses the importance to take an opportunity and forgo change, “Breakaway” reveals through a given situation within the lyrics of an unhappy and conformed past, while “The Door” fortifies the meaning by indicating there are risks involved and not all outcomes are always positive. Change is brought about through the urging from both “The Door” and “Breakaway”, embracing the need and unavoidable change. As a result, there are infinite opportunities of choices in life that lead to change, and life-altering experiences with the luring tone of both texts, optimises a positive outcome.
Change can be unwanted and resisted, or often lead to unwanted outcomes, this is conveyed in the film “Shrek” and from Flacco’s Burnt Offerings “Humans in Their Environment”. The film “Shrek” displays how he was a self-conceited yet self-degrading ogre who lived alone and believed that everyone feared and disliked him. Shrek inevitably faces a change; a change in heart when taking a chance to regain his swamp for himself. His change of heart ironically developed, without the pushing or pursuing for change. Shrek imminently masked his feelings when the reality of being alone was within obvious situations but in the end Shrek underwent his change unaware but grateful. As opposed the “Humans in Their Environment”, the activist who tried distinctively hard to disallow change to occur to the environment (destruction of rainforest) received the worse and unexpected, his attempt in preventing a tree to be cut down by chaining himself to it, resulted ironically as he did not stop the tree from being cut down or did he save himself. The irony within both texts contrast how really that change is inevitable, and will always remains as a constant and “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.
The past cannot be erased or changed, but now in the present the power to change the future is within your hands, you have to choice to take on change and endure the consequences positive or negative. Change is the future; the attempt to force things to remain the same will ultimately still have change. Change has its definite risks and flaws, but essentially all 4 texts bring about my understanding that change cannot be avoided, and that taking a risk and trying varies comparatively to resisting change, positive and negative results will always depend on the situation for better or worse change will occur.
Bibliography
Animated Film –
“Shrek”
Directed by: Andrew Adamson & Victoria Jenson
Produced by: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, John.H Williams, & David Goodwine
Edited by: Sim Evan-Jones
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Vincent Cassel, John Lithgow, Conrad Vernon & Linda Hunt
Rating: PG
Made in: 2001
Shrek (2001):
, accessed 28/02/05
Lyrics of a Song –
‘Breakaway’
Artist: Kelly Clarkson
Written by: M. Gerrard, B. Benante & A. Lavigne
Produced by: John Shank
Released: 30th of November 2004.
Westcoastmusic: Kelly Clarkson: Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson second album (American Idol): , accessed 29/02/05
Novel –
‘Lord Of The Flies’
Author: William Golding
Published by: Faber & Faber Ltd.
Published in: July 1959
About: William Golding sets his novel Lord of the Flies at a time when Europe is in the midst of nuclear destruction. A group of boys, being evacuated from England to Australia, crash-lands on a tropical island. No adults survive the crash, and the novel is the story of the boys' descent into chaos, disorder, and evil.
ClassicNotes: Background on Lord of the Flies:
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