Shrek is starting to compare to a hero because when all the fairytale creatures are in his swamp he said to them “I am going to get you all out of my swamp and back where you belong”. And all the fairytale creatures cheer as if he was a hero, but Shrek was only going to go on this quest to find Lord Farquaad just so he can get the swamp for himself again so Shrek is being a reluctant hero. A true hero would only do it for other peoples benefit.
When Shrek gets sent on a mission by Lord Farquaad they make a deal with each other that if Shrek rescues Fiona from the dragon, he can have his swamp back the way it was. But the only thing that Shrek really wants from this quest is to get his swamp back not to rescue the Princess from the dragon. So Shrek is still being a reluctant hero.
When Shrek and Donkey get to the top of the mountain. The denotation is that there is a very old and big castle surrounded by lava also with a rickety bridge and at the top of the tower there is a room with a light on. This does not compare to a normal castle because it is not pretty and has lava around it.
When they get in the castle they get chased by the dragon and Shrek gets flung into the Princesses room. So the Princess gets herself straightened out and lies on the bed neatly, then Shrek comes over and pulls her out of the bed instead of lifting her out gently and doesn’t kiss her. Shrek doesn’t care about the narrative theory because he isn’t her true hero or love, but she doesn’t know that then.
When they get down to the bottom of the castle Fiona realizes that Shrek hasn’t slayed the dragon but the connotation is that, because that he isn’t the real hero he doesn’t have to follow the narrative theory. Instead he puts a trap on the dragon so it can’t get them. If Shrek was a real hero he would have slayed the dragon. Firstly he would have walked up to her room, read her poems, kissed her and lifted her out of her bed then walked to his horse and rode of back to his castle. So Shrek has messed it up for Fiona because she has been waiting all these years, planning her moment with her true love and then Shrek ruins it for her, also Shrek isn’t into all this love nonsense as well. But in the end he does rescue her from the dragon so he is beginning to be a real hero.
When they are walking back to Lord Farquaad’s castle they meet Robin Hood and his merry men in the forest and they try to take Fiona away from Shrek but the narrative theory is reversed because Fiona beat up Robin Hood and his merry men without any help from Shrek so Fiona doesn’t follow the narrative theory because she doesn’t let the hero, Shrek, beat them up. They are both becoming alike because they are both not following the narrative theory. They both are getting on so well now because Fiona is becoming more like Shrek. She is burping and pushing Shrek also she is acting like a child, real Princesses don’t act like that.
Fiona and Donkey talk in the barn when it is just after sunset and Fiona has turned into an ogre and she said to Donkey “Who can go out with a hideous beast who is ugly”. Shrek heard the conversation and he just assumed that they were talking about him because he is ugly and a hideous beast.
I feel that they made Lord Farquaad little because he is not brave and he thinks little of people. He can’t do things for himself. Fiona feels that she is trapped because in a fairytale the Princess is made to love her Prince Charming and live happily ever after.
Shrek is different from most heroes because Shrek is very tall, fat, green, has disgusting habits, smells bad and lives in a swamp but normal heroes usually are quite tall slim, white, black, smell lovely and live in a palace. So Shrek is completely opposite to a hero in the sense of looks and personality.
