Swamp

Lindsay-Abaire and was composed by Jeanine Tesori. The story line of the play follows closely to the film. It follows Shrek an Ogre trying to reclaim his swamp back from a group of fairy tale characters. In order to do so he must confront Lord Farquad who has banished all the fairy tale characters to Shrek's swamp. In doing so Shrek is promised his swamp back in exchange for him retrieving a princess from castle tower. Shrek the musical used a combination of scenic, lighting and costume…

The Devil and Tom Walker The setting of Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker” serves as a way for Irving to foreshadow coming events, especially events that are rather… grim. For example, “The swamp was… grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks”. Pine is a tree that can be seen as symbolising an everlasting element, and hemlock is extremely poisonous to domestic animals and, more importantly, humans. Later, Tom Walker meets the character named ‘Old Scratch, or the devil. The devil is…

both of these works, the positive occurrences are reflected by how nature is described. For instance, when the narrator goes to show Doodle “the only beauty [he] knew, Old Woman Swamp,” the place is described quite euphoniously, as the narrator “pulled the…

Old Woman Swamp and set Doodle on the grass beside a tall pine . Doodle loved it so both of them went to Old Woman Swamp every day. When doodle was five years old the narrator was embarrassed about having a brother that could not walk; so the narrator sets a mission to teach Doodle to walk at Old Woman Swamp. They had been going to Old Woman Swamp day after day. The narrator picking up Doodle every time he fell. “ Every day that summer we went to the pine beside the stream of Old Woman Swamp,…

only cares and thinks about himself. Fiona- Didn 't have much interest in gaining new knowledge and was willing to accept her predetermined fate. Shrek- Shrek didn 't want to live among the villagers, so he decided to gather knowledge and turn the swamp into his…

Kate Chopin, the character Desiree--who is carrying her child--purposely walks into the swamp and never returns. Therefore, readers infer that they both die. Although she believed she was saving the baby’s life, Desiree’s decision to walk into the swamp carrying her child is wrong because she had other options for herself and she ended an innocent child’s life. One reason she is wrong for walking into the swamp and ending their life is because she had other options for herself. In paragraph 30…

Throughout the film Shrek there are various uses of non diegetic sound as well as dialogue, music and sound effects, which functions in the film in order to emphasize and reveal its characters, creates rhythm/continuity, shapes the audience’s feelings and grasp the audience’s attention. For example, Donkey insisting on following Shrek and talking to him despite Shrek demanding him to be quiet. From the very beginning, Donkey’s ongoing dialogue throughout the entire film reveals his character to…

and eat whatever dead carcass’s they can find. People that live in the village’s see ogres as big, hideous monsters. They often hunt and try to plot on sabotaging him. Shrek likes to live in complete solitude. He lives in a tree trunk located in a swamp. His door is made of wood and the door mat made of wooden fence panels. Although, his place where he chooses to call home is not the most preferred. He keeps his domain very tidy and organized. How can such a monster be considered a hero?…

“How I Became a Ghost and The Westward Expansion” Westward Expansion (1801-1890s) was bad for the Indigenous people because they were forced to move west and leave their native lands. However, it benefited the United States because the nation could expand its land and ultimately would become very wealthy and powerful. Additionally, Indigenous people like the Choctaw had to migrate to an area, which is present-day Oklahoma, because of the Indian Removal Act. In the book, How I Became a Ghost by…

Jamie’s, Chevy is looking for Piper and can’t find her. He is disheartened that his sweetie pie, is not going to hunt with us this time. Now, we are off for the two hour trip to the swamp and since I’m not the one driving this time, me and Chevy go back to sleep. Pulling in at the entrance of the dirt road that leads to the swamp, we notice that Enoch and Chevy’s buddy Alex had already arrived. We chatted for a few minutes from the window of the truck. Afterwards, we began the process of…