Examples Of Satire In Shrek

As a satire the movie, Shrek is extremely enchanting and successfully adds a sense of realism to the “fairy-tale” characters that we have all come to know and love. This realism created by the film flips the way the audience perceives each character. Though due to its animation it may be hard for one to simply accept all that is happening, but Shrek has the ability to encapsulate the viewer and place them on an adventure into the land of faerie, up until the end of the movie when the viewer returns to the primary world. Along with the sense of realness created by the movie, it is easy to identify one-self which the prominent characters found throughout the movie. For example, Shrek is the protagonist of the movie, but he is also an outcast. Throughout the movie Shrek goes on a journey to find the one thing he finds comfort in, solitude, something that everyone in the primary world has at one point in his or her life experienced. Throughout this journey Shrek learns to …show more content…
This is what Shrek had been growing up with his entire life, isolation (1). Yet he was happy because it was all that he knew. It is also mentioned in the movie Shrek the Third that his parents would make him take baths in barbeque and sleep with an apple in his mouth(2). This goes to show how dysfunctional his family may have been around him. These seemingly minor instances can help to further connect people to the character of Shrek. Back to the first movie, Shrek, the main character, Shrek, goes off on an adventure for selfish reasons. He stepped forward to retrieve the princess from the tower because he wanted to get rid of the “fairy-tale” creatures in his swamp. Throughout this journey the audience, just as Shrek does, grows to love the faithful and annoying companion Donkey. Not only can someone find him or herself within the character of Shrek but also in the character of Donkey