Shrek: Literary Fiction And Commercial Fiction

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Steven Joniel Lopez Cruz
Professor Blackwelder
ENC 1101-79851
1 November 2017

Can two different things be related? Literary fiction and commercial fiction have many differences; however, people can find some similarities. Shrek (2001) is going to be the movie to evaluate. The definition of literary fiction, the definition of commercial fiction, comparison between literary and commercial fiction, a little information of the movie, a summary of the movie, and why it could be literary or commercial fiction. Literary fiction is a term principally used for certain fictional works that are claimed to hold literary merit. Literary merit it is a certain aesthetic value. It should be concerned with the truth. It should have a theme. Commercial fiction is to entertain the audiences and make big amount of money. Literary fiction is different to commercial fiction because literary is to send a message to …show more content…

Before the insistence of the donkey, who calls himself Donkey, Shrek allows him to stay for one night in his swamp, although outside his cave. While he dines in the candlelight created with the wax of his ear he begins to hear noises, checking that three blind mice have entered his cave, to see shortly after Snow White inside his cave with the seven dwarfs, and the wolf fierce in his bed, having at the doors a host of other characters, being informed by Pinocchio and the three little pigs that are there because they were banished there by Lord Farquaad, unable to go anywhere else. When his tranquility is threatened, Shrek decides to go to

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