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GCSE Media Essay "Shrek" In this essay I will be analysing the characters "Shrek" and "Lord Farquaad" and I will write about how the director uses presentational devices to produce a typical fairy tale. A typical fairy tale is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, ogres, dragons and talking animals and also enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events. In modern-day language, the term is also used to describe to something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy tale romance", though there are notable examples and genres of fairy tales that do not end happily. Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story. They take place "once upon a time" rather than in actual times. For example "Cinderella" A parody of a fairy tale is not like any traditional fairy...

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