Shrek Interactionist Perspective Essay

The interactionist perspective is conflict, cooperation, and the way people act in society. The movie Shrek illustrates the interactionist perspective by in the beginning of the movie there is an ambush of men trying to burn down shrek's house, because he lives and looks differently than they do. Shrek isn’t a “norm” in their society so the ambush of men do anything in their power to destroy shrek’s living situation. Shrek will never live up to the expectations of the humans because shrek appears differently than the rest of the people do. Throughout this whole movie shrek is never a part of their society because he doesn’t fit their “norms”. Not only is shrek a character in the movie that does not live up to their society's expectations, but neither does donkey. All of the characters in …show more content…
For instance at the wedding he has two servants holding up cards telling the audience how to feel and what to do. As him and fiona are about to get married fiona is nervously trying to rush the ceremony because she fears that she will be judged on her appearance as an ogre. People within this society are afraid to be who they are, and try to fit everyone else's expectations. Mainly lord farquaad's expectations. Shrek can’t live up to lord farquaad's expectations because he believes that ogres can’t feel emotion. But once he kisses fiona, she turns into an ogre and says “ew she's disgusting”. Now that lord farquaad has realized that fiona is not good enough for him he basically treats her how he treats shrek all because they don’t fit into their society. After watching this movie we have gathered that there will always be different social rankings, and that people from different rankings will treat you a certain way if you’re not good enough to belong to their society or their ranking. The movie shrek is a good example of the interactionist perspective from the many reasons listed