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1 - Three Friendships – and Lots of Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2024

Sophie Grace Chappell
Sophie Grace Chappell
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The Open University, Milton Keynes
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The award-winning children’s film Shrek came out at just the right time (in 2001) to be a favourite with our children when they were small, for family viewing (in fact, for multi-repeat family viewing). Shrek is a fairy-tale animation about a sad, lonely, angry, alienated ogre in a world that rejects him for being scary, ugly, and different. With Donkey’s help, Shrek has just rescued the beautiful Princess Fiona from a dragon. Since this is a fairy-tale, Shrek has of course fallen in love with Fiona, but since he is an ogre and she is (apparently) a princess, he is sure his love is in vain. He has always kept up a tough and cynical exterior, but now he has stormed off from Princess Fiona because he has overheard her saying ‘Who could love a hideous, ugly beast?’ – and mistakenly assumed that she meant him.

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A Philosopher Looks at Friendship , pp. 6 - 32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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