Sources for Paradigm Shift Paper
How can one illustrate the perception of ogres throughout history?
I plan to explain the evolution of mythical creatures/monster archetypes throughout literature and film, and then focus mainly on ogres. I will then explain the ogre’s origin/definition and famous works picturing the ogre over the years and its influence (will be split into old literature and films from 20th Century and current works from the 21st Century). I hope to juxtapose the symbolism behind the ogre and how they’ve been more humanized over the years. In contrast, I also have some statistics about the popularity of mythical creatures (ogres) and I want to document this through book and movie ticket sales. Additionally, I also have mixed reviews cited about the Shrek movies to show conflicting beliefs in modern society.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ogre
^will be used for the history of ogres
https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/130848?redirectedFrom=ogre#eid
^definition of an ogre
^this link doesn’t work at the moment but it also discusses more about mythical creatures/archetypes and examples (database)
^this link doesn’t work at the moment but it also discusses more about mythical creatures/archetypes and examples (database)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shrek
^shrek movie review to show it’s highly rated reviews
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/17/shrek-20-unfunny-overrated-low-blockbuster
^this actually critiques shrek
https://www.dreamworks.com/movies/shrek
^shrek movies listed (since Dreamworks made more than one film, that’s got to mean something)
Beowulf epic poem
^I think Grendel is an evil ogre, which shows that older literature pictures ogres as monsters
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgpqc
^The Japanese Oni were seen as ogres/cannibals, but then they shifted into the idea of protectors (I also saw this in Teen Wolf lol)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/376778?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
^I think this one is more about mythical creatures and archetypes
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/05/18/hallmarks-fantasy-brief-history-fantasy
^History of fantasy literature genre
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244018780946
^Statistics on fantasy genre popularity
^Popularity of fantasy genre sales (facts)
Wish me luck to see if I can pull this all together!
I can’t wait to see you incorporate all of these sources into yet another amazing essay.
Great sources! It would be interesting to see how different cultures developed similar ideas of ogres as villains.