Lord Farquaad in Shrek, is supposed to be the prince charming but is mocked by being short, mean, and a coward. Which is the opposite of how a prince should be. Also his kingdom parodies the very iconic Disneyland, like the mouse ears in Disney, Lord Farquaad's face is everywhere (photo above). Again in Duloc; which is his kingdom, there is an informational booth that resembles the "It's a small world" ride (photo below).
Also in the movie reversal occurs. The roles of damsel in distress and hero switch, when Robin hood and the merry men attack. Fiona fights them all off by herself, and during this it also parodies The Matrix when time freezes and she fixes her hair. Before she fights them off we see her singing to a blue bird and it repeating her melody, familiar to the Disney movie Snow White (video below). Lastly we see a Disney reference when Fiona is being transformed into an ogre permanently. It resembles the transformation of the beast, in Beauty and the Beast. (Top picture shrek, bottom beauty and the beast).
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, satire is one of the main elements in the book. It satirizes the south, and the people in the south. It places an unlikely pair: Huck and Jim, together as incongruity. An obvious parody is the Shepardsons and Grangerfords feud, which is making fun on the Hatfield and McCoy feud. The family has been fighting for so long, nobody even remembers why they're fighting.We can also see satire with Miss Watson tries becoming a better person, but still owns slaves.
I think the two works connect because of the unlikely pairing. In Shrek you have the big, mean, stand off-ish ogre paired with an out going, quirky talking doneky. Which would be weird in the fairy tale world. In Huck Finn there is a young white kid from the south, with a runaway slave, which during the time was illegal, not acceptable, and far outside the social norm.
