These challenges and temptations start after the hero crosses the threshold. These can be both internal and external battles. These challenges start of easy but then progressively get more difficult as the journey goes on. These challenges are what helps them to change and grow. These challenges target their flaws or weaker abilities, and change them into good qualities or are strengthened. This is the start of their transformation. There are helpers for these challenges. These helpers aid the character in both their internal and external struggles.
There are both internal and external challenges in Shrek. There are the obvious like fighting off the men who try to kill him in his swamp, defeting the knights in Duloc, rescuing Fioana from the castle and dragon, and getting away from the Merry Men in the forest. These are all external challenges. Shrek's helpers are Fiona, Donkey, and the dragon. An internal struggle that Shrek faces is his appearance. He thinks that he's so ugly that nobody can like him or would want to be with him. Fiona and Donkey help him overcome this.
There are both internal and external challenges in Shrek. There are the obvious like fighting off the men who try to kill him in his swamp, defeting the knights in Duloc, rescuing Fioana from the castle and dragon, and getting away from the Merry Men in the forest. These are all external challenges. Shrek's helpers are Fiona, Donkey, and the dragon. An internal struggle that Shrek faces is his appearance. He thinks that he's so ugly that nobody can like him or would want to be with him. Fiona and Donkey help him overcome this.