Shrek Stereotypes

Western society has a relatively strict idea about how a woman should look, think, and act. It lauds thinness and is disgusted by fatness. This kind of notion causes women to seriously question themselves. Ideal bodies and faces are all over the media and are a very large

Children’s movies can often hold important and informative life lessons. In the case of Shrek, we learn that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and to “never judge a book by its cover.” That is all fine and dandy, however this winsome story of a misunderstood ogre, a talkative donkey, and a beautiful princess delves into concepts that go much deeper than that of a cute children’s anecdote. Throughout the course of the movie, points are made dealing with attraction and intimacy, specifically the “halo effect”, cognitive dissonance, and most prominent of all, prejudice, discrimination, and the social identity theory. After making a harrowing escape with the princess from the fire breathing dragon, Shrek and Donkey find themselves in an

Model’s work so hard to have the perfect body for magazines and other things but it is not enough for people they have to photoshop everything that is natural for a girl and it makes girls self conscious about themselves. The interest in this topic is that this is a serious problem,girls should be proud of there body but people think that if a girl is fat then that girl does not care and if a girl is too skinny that girl is trying too hard. In the 1840’s people were fat because it showed that that person was wealthy and could eat a lot, and if a person is skinny you could not afford to eat. But by the 1920’s dieting and calorie counting were apart of daily life. There is way too much pressure on girls to have the perfect body because girls think they are not as pretty as the girls in magazines, society is also the problem because society thinks if a girl is not skinny that girl is not pretty, they always try to change girls because nothing is

According to the society/media’s beauty standards and expectations, women are supposed to have big breasts, small waist, and big butt as said in the interview by my sister. From a young age, girls are taught about what they are supposed to look like through media. All these girls grow up to be women who have low self-esteems because they have been shown pictures of women who they do not look like but want to look like. Women want to fit into these unrealistic images because they are eager to be known as beautiful. Studies show that the more reality television a young girl watches, the more likely she is to find physical appearance important (Thompson, 2014). Research shows that women who consume more mainstream media, place a greater importance on sexiness and overall appearance than those who do not consume as much (Mazur,

Based on the book “Shrek,” by William Steig, the animated movie “Shrek,” directed Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson of DreamWorks (Katzenburg, J., Warner, A., Williams, J.H & Adamson, A., Jenson, V. 2001), an ogre named Shrek who is given the title of an outcast by both humans and fairytale creatures. Due to being an Ogre, Shrek has lived his life alone and isolated in house in a swamp until various fairytale creatures invade his home. The fairytale creatures have moved themselves into Shrek’s swamp because of Lord Farquaad’s law. In order to give Shrek and himself what he wants, Lord Farquaad gives Shrek a deal to get Princess Fiona for him in exchange for the fairytale to leave. Along with a companion named “Donkey,” he travels across the land

In this essay, I am going to analyze the Dreamworks’s movie from 2004, Shrek 2. This film is a parody of some of the most famous fairytales in history. Shrek is the main character and is an ogre that lives in a swamp in the middle of an enchanted forest. The story follows his adventures along with his family and friends in Far Far Away. I chose this animated movie because gives us the opportunity to discuss the ideas proposed by Rosina Lippi-Green in her 1997’s publication, where she discusses the way animated films expose children to different stereotypes through language and looks.

The mention of Disney often takes people back to childhood memories about animated films that portray messages such as love, friendship, believing in one’s self, morals, good versus evil and happy endings for the princes and princesses. However, the stories themselves have a large of amount of gender stereotypes, cultural biases, class differentiation, and unrealistic expectations of how society is supposed to be compared to real life such as being a gorgeous thin Caucasian girl or a muscle man. Even though the stories have been made to be more mainstream than the original fairytales written by Charles Perrault, the Grimm brother’s and Hans Christian Anderson; the stories still keep the idealistic portrayals of gender types from their

The media often glamorizes a very thin body for women. These are also the pictures that

Self-esteem plays a big part of body image. People have to feel good about themselves and be comfortable in their own skin to be happy. In today's world, it feels almost impossible to be happy, this generation is all about the media which makes having self-esteem 10x harder. Millions of pictures are posted of expectations of how women should look. In an article written by Pavica Sheldon, she states that ”The average American woman is 5’4 and 140 pounds, whereas the average female model portrayed in the media is 5’11 and 120 pounds”. Women are placed into a box telling them they have to look a certain way and if they don't they're simply not good enough. Besides being put into a category women numerously get called nasty names like slut or whore if they show too much. Piggy and fatty if they're overweight. Or “stick” if she's too skinny. Nothing is ever good enough is what it feels like. For example, Kylie Jenner, if you grew up watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” you know how she looked before all the plastic surgery she got done, she now looks completely different. An account wrote, “What are they giving Kylie?” and someone quoted the tweet and said plastic. So even if women try to fix their imperfections they still get shamed down for it by calling them fake.

The media is trying to condition women into thinking that they need to look a certain way and be a certain weight to be beautiful and to fit in. With pictures and advertisements of unrealistic looking women selling the next best thing to help us achieve beauty and acceptance. And cyber bullies that have nothing better to do than belittle someone and body shame people are having a big impact on the way women and men see themselves and it needs to stop. I feel that we have come a long way in society from even two or three years ago, with women like Demi Lovato, Mellissa McCarthy and more putting positive body images and messages on social media telling women young and old to love their body the way it is.

In today’s society, it is effortless to argue that women are too pressured to have a perfect body. Women have an idea that they have to fulfill a look to satisfy other people because of what appeals to the common eye. Women always lower their self-esteem because of the way models look in magazines, movies, television, etc. Beautiful celebrities like Megan Fox, Kim Kardashian, and Beyoncé are what the common eye admires. Celebrities tend to be slim, wear loads of makeup, and have ideal curves. Women look up to these celebrities and wish to be just like them.

From magazines to television and everything in between, the media has a profound effect on women and the way they perceive themselves and their bodies. The media typically glamorizes skinny models who do not resemble the average woman. In fact most models weigh 23% less than a typical woman. However twenty years ago the average model weighed only 8% less. In the 1950s the ideal female body image was Marilyn Monroe and she was a size

Basically, the media is doing nothing but using subliminal messages. The way they portray the models in magazines, it only confuses a human’s mind. This makes them believe that they must look like them to be considered beautiful. Often in magazines, when positive values, success, love, and happiness, a thin person is shown. This not only completely lowers a “healthy”, or a plus sized person’s self-esteem, but the media also tries to make it seem as if in order to be happy and successful, a person must be skinny (Piazza). Every day, companies come up with a new beauty product, or a new diet product to leer someone into buying it to make themselves beautiful. New products every day completely sets aside the idea that natural beauty is already beautiful enough. According to the media, though, people need these products to look more humane, or look younger and thinner. The media also using editing and

Beauty standards in the media display models that are considered to be well under the healthy body weight. By the media using images of these models it sends a message to women that she must be unhealthy to be considered beautiful by society. Based upon the mindset given to women from the media, no women could be too rich or too skinny makes it extremely difficult for women to fulfill this unrealistic image. The media, being the number one problem facing women today it makes it near impossible for one to love them self for who they are but instead encouraging them to harm themselves.

In today 's western society, an abundance of factors contribute to the way one thinks and feels about themselves physically, and essentially how one would act upon this. All over the world, messages and images of skinny women are engrossing people 's lives, leaving negative and long-lasting affects behind. Current beliefs of western culture suggest one must obtain a "perfect," which has become analogous to thin, physique in order to achieve happiness and success, causing many young women to feel negatively about themselves and potentially leading to dangerous eating disorders. Certain factors and beliefs of western culture, including the obsession with thinness, influence of the media, and society 's backlash against feminism, all play a