Aristotle Lion King

Aristotle’s six elements highly influenced today’s movies, television shows, and theater musicals. These film/ T.V. shows have used several of Aristotle’s six elements from three-dimensional characters to spectacle and music. Aristotle’s six elements are the guidelines when the narrator is developing a script. The movie The Lion King came out in 1994; it is an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney. The Lion King demonstrated Aristotle two principles: symbolism and theme. The movie, The Lion King begins with the symbol of the sun rising. “The sun represents a never-deviating pattern of death and rebirth through its daily rising and setting, an eternal constant that embodies the Circle of Life” ("Themes and Symbols in Lion King"). According to Aristotle, a literary symbol means …show more content…
In one part of the movie, Simba stands up to the three hyenas and stand up for Nala in the elephant graveyard. This where good and evil comes theme is presented. The evil is the hyenas and the good is Simba, Nala, and Mufasa. The hyenas are a part of Scar’s entourage. Scar is Mufasa’s older brother who wanted to be king but Mufasa took it instead. Simba and Nala was ambush by the three hyenas and had nowhere to go, and he stands in front of her and try to scare the hyenas but luckily, his father Mufasa saves them. Another area when facing fear was applied was when Simba’s father Mufasa was thrown into the stampede by Scar. When this happens, Scar blames Simba for killing his father and he decides to leave. Scar told Simba” to run away…run, run away and never returned” (The Lion King) but Simba returns from the jungle. He faces Scar and Scar says, “I killed Mufasa”. Aristotle states that, theme is the controlling idea or central insight. It can be a revelation of human character; a theme is the central and unifying concept of the story: it must account for all the major details of the