Although most audiences find that the film “Shrek” is just a comical film, it is rather more that that. The film actually fulfils the requirements needed to prove that Shrek is indeed a hero that is being represented. The film “Shrek” is a 2001 computer-animated fantasy-comedy film that is initially based on Steig (1990) fairy tale picture book. Shrek has all the characteristics of the hero archetype, even though he is not the typical good-looking masculine hero depicted in most stories for example, in Disney cartoon where, the charming handsome prince that saves the princess in distress. Shrek on the other hand, is a charter that is hideous and vulgar because he has the appearance of an ogre and as Kelsey (2005:5) states “(the) Hero figures
