In the beloved tale of a Dreamworks production “Shrek”, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. The animated film was released in theaters in 2001, it was based off of satirical comedy in the typical storybook world that has kids and even hidden adult humor that makes the entertainment fun for everyone. The story begins with the main character, Shrek played by Mike Myers, narrates about a story of “true loves first kiss” in an intricate story book and ends up closing up the story thinking that its a load of ---t in a comical way as he flushes in the toilet. We find out that the main character Shrek is actually an ogre that has a routine of disgusting ogre like habits such as mud baths, eating slugs, and brushing your teeth with slime. Around the local area according to the angry mobs with torches and pitchforks that he’s not the most popular and friendly person, with the added beware sign. As much as the villagers try to slay him, they end up terrified in their pants to do anything and run away in fright.
Though one day he meets an annoying donkey named “Donkey”, played by Eddie Murphy shockingly that tries running away from the authorities in the land of Duloc.Shrek accidentally saves him from the authorities and donkey befriends Shrek. A day after Shrek finds that his humble homey swamp has been ransacked by every fairy creature in the land. He finds that Lord Farquaad is responsible for the exiling of the creatures and goes on a journey to meet him personally to get rid of all the creatures in his swamp so he can return to his home in solitude, Donkey accompanies him. Meanwhile Farquaad tortures the gingerbread man so he may know where the rest of the fairy tale creatures are hidden, but his guards abruptly interrupt him...
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.... Clearly seen that his thoughts were irrational and cognitive restructuring occurs making her happy. Lord Farquaad, has some thoughts irrational thinking like a person better than others, which makes developing an arrogant behavior of tyranny to others and abuse of power. Through his thoughts of greatness, always understood that its approach is correct and true no matter the arguments of others. However, this thought lies unconscious emotional distress, ie, Lord Farquaad is not aware that actually has a major inferiority complex. Donkey, as reflected above, presents a conflict of fear of loneliness, and from this perspective, irrational thinking is that Donkey is not anyone think for himself and needs to be accompanied to be somebody. To think that you can be alone causes much emotional distress, so that their behavior is flattering, fawning, compliant, and so on.
The movie, Awakenings, begins by showing a little boy, Leonard Lowe, playing in the park with his friends. Those same friends join Leonard as they go to school. While at school, Leonard begins to show signs that he is having difficulty writing. His teacher, looks through his notebook and notices that his writing has suddenly gotten worse. His teacher then notifies Mrs. Lowe of her findings. It is evident that Leonard’s right hand has curled to the point that he can no longer use it to write (Sacks & Zaillian, 1990).
When reading Bierce’s story much of it does not make sense to a first time reader, how could Farquhar do all of this but in the end had died of a broken neck. When reading and analyzing the story further the experiences Farquhar has, the reader starts to sense that he was dead. Bierce made Farquhar an optimistic man and in his world between reality and imagination this is how he survived. Farquhar used his imagination to escape death, even though in the story he did die he used his imagination to escape his own pain and suffering by pushing his own mind into believing that his imagination was reality he would survive and did survive. Bierce tells about this vivid imagination of Farquhar’s while still trying to clue in the reader that he is already dead.
In Embattled Dreams, author Kevin Starr explains the decade that begins with World War II and ends with the growth of states that were part of the war, concentrating on the United States specifically California. The book speaks about the changes that the war brought into California and how it was a catalyst for major changes in the state’s economy and society. It focuses on the development of California. Many books show the major events that changed a country, but there were smaller stories within the country that demonstrated to the development as well. The author wants to show readers that California contributed much to the war cause, building machinery and such, but this book emphasizes the effects these jobs had on society. Kevin Starr
In "Owl Creek Bridge," the protagonist's narrative is realistic and reasonable and with the author’s creative imagination, the narration shifted to enable the readers to see inside Farquhar's mind. The way the mind perceived how an emotional conflict changes the way t...
In the essay i am going to focus on the characters of Shrek and lord Farrquaad, the fairytale genre is subverted from the usual ogre being a man eater and the prince saving the princess to the ogre becoming the rescuer and the prince being evil person who sends the ogre to do his dirty work and rescue the princess.
Patient is a young school age boy with light brown hair and deep brown eyes. He has a very friendly demeanor and is dressed in a polo shirt, shorts, and wears uneven socks. He lives in a home with his mother and attends school regularly. He states that he likes school but that his favorite time of day is when he is in his bedroom playing with his toys. He says that his best friend is his stuffed bear, Pooh and that he waits for him every day until he returns from school. Patient immediately starts talking about a wonderful place that he visits with his toys calls the "Hundred Acre Wood." When inquired if this is a place that he dreams about he replies that it is not in fact a dream, and that he visits this magical place with his toys. He soon shares a book titled Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A Milne. Inside of the book he reveals various drawings of his toys and their homes. The patient shows where he lives in this magical place which is the inside of a large tree. He also has a swing drawn outside the front door of his "home." Patient seems very proud of his drawings and is passionate about this make-belief place. When asked if he could show me this wonderful place, he responded that only he can see his toys and go on adventures with them. Besides this fault the patient seems to show no other signs of mental disorder.
The Lion King is a Disney animated movie portraying the life and times of Simba, who later becomes the greatest lion king known in the land. Simba's rise to the throne is a journey fraught with perils and hardships that make it an absolutely trilling story for the whole family! Although The Lion King is an exciting and entertaining movie, the movie is also a good illustration of several psychology concepts.
In this essay I am going to analyse the characters of shrek and Lord Farquaad, and write about how filmmakers use different camera angles, lighting, music and setting to create an unusual fairy tale. The giant in jack and the beanstalk is what we expect of giants/ogres. In traditional fairy tales ogres are normally man-eating beast, at the beginning of shrek, shrek is what you expect him to be like. When the farmers go to his swamp and the meet shrek. When shrek is shouting at them the low angle camera shot makes shrek look intimidating to the crowd and audience.
The unconscious has a huge part in shaping human behavior, yet many overlook the idea behind it. This is an idea that maybe these unconscious behaviors can be used to alter the future or the past mistakes or anything in between for that matter. Everyone dreams at some point in their life and what many people don’t realize is that dreams usually develop from past experiences or from actual occurrences and thoughts. This means that if someone happened to see a guy wearing a cowboy hat with a feather in it, in one of their dreams, they most likely saw this person at some point in their life and may not have even realized it. It is impossible to create a new face in a dream. In Inception (2009), Christopher Nolan portrays Dom Cobb as a special operative whose life mirrors a Freudian psychological reality in which his repressed guilt leads to self-destructive behavior.
written by William Steig in 1990 (“Shrek!”). The plot of the book and the film are similar in some ways, but the film adaptation creatively incorporates many different fairy tales into its plot to create a new fairy tale. Some of the fairy tales characters included in the plot are the Gingerbread Man from The Gingerbread Man, Magic Mirror from Snow White, and the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. For the creators to pull multiple elements of different stories into their own, they used intertextuality, as opposed to allusion, to mold the story into a single universe, where each character feels as though they belong in said
Farquhar has reached land, escaped the soldiers, and is running through the forest. As the sunsets, he finally finds a road “which led him in what he knew to be the right direction.” The road was very wide, but untraveled. As he walked, he saw no signs of civilization, only the “black bodies of the trees [that] formed a straight wall.” He was able to see the sky, but the stars were “unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations” that he felt were “arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.” Farquhar also overheard strange noises, “whispers in an unknown tongue.” The image created in this paragraph confirms any suspicions the reader may have had on Farquhar’s fate. The eeriness of this scene alludes to the supernatural, with the artificial feel of this forest pointing to Farquhar’s journey to the next
At first glance, Pixar’s Inside Out seems to be your standard coming of age film. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Riley who is forced to make a move from Minnesota to San Francisco with her parents. However, a deeper look at the film reveals how accurate it is to developmental psychology. The center of the story isn’t Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions –Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. The five emotions are personified as characters that control her mind as she transitions from childhood to adolescence and deals with the challenge of adjusting to a new place. Inside Out uses Riley and her emotions function as a demonstration of the relationship between emotion and cognition. In doing so, the film reveals several important questions about developmental psychology. Such as, how do emotions color our memories of the past and what is
The animated film Shrek is a Dreamworks fairy tale that teaches us to look beyond what we expect to see, by completely subverting the traditional fairy tale concepts of gender, appearance and beauty. The characters in Shrek are vastly different from what we would expect to see in their appearance and behaviour. With unexpected plot twists, the directors of Shrek create important messages and morals that would not usually be conveyed, using techniques such as humour. The techniques have been placed strategically to result in an entertaining and educational film.
At first, German art critic Franz Roh used the term "Magical Realism" to describe a style of painting (Roh 15). Eventually, Arturo Uslar Pietri adapted the term in order to describe a type of literature (Leal 120). While the exact definition of Magical Realism is open to interpretation, it is certain that Magical Realism gives a deeper meaning to ordinary life by unearthing mysteries that hide behind the world (Roh 16-17). In order to uncover these mysteries, Magical Realism combines fantasy with reality (Flores 110-111). Although Magical Realism is now well-known as a genre of literature, Magical Realism extends into "real life" through a treatment in psychology known as Traumatic Incident Reduction.