Comparing Hamlet And The Lion King

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The Lion King one of Disney's most classic movies ever, amazing soundtrack and animation. Still are popular movie among the young children growing up in this generation. This movie portrays leadership, sacrifice, fight against good and evil, and purpose in the circle of life. The movie shares similarities of Hamlet and The Prince of Egypt. The prince young Simba, who is King Mufasa's son who will one day take over their kingdom, Young Simba who is similar to Shakespeare's Hamlet Jr., they both lost their fathers and will soon come turns with revenge of their father's death. For both sons they seem push back on taking revenge for their father's death. Like Hamlet, Simba runs from responsibility as now King, even though he understands what …show more content…
He learns to become happy with himself in his outside life as king. As Simba is having a hard time with leadership, he begins to forget more and more about the past, until a good childhood friend of his named Nala comes along. Nala tries persuade Simba in returning to Pride Lands by telling him what is his Uncle Scar has done. Simba does not realize how important it is to free his people from salvation, as Moses did for his people. During his scenes with Nala, he comes to river area, where he sees his reflection in the water as father and not himself. Simba soon runs into Rafiki, who is a good friend of his father's but does not know. When he meets Rafiki, he tells him your father is not dead he's alive I can show you. So he takes Simba to the waters, and tells him to look down there. He looks down he says that's not him it's just my reflection. Rafiki tells him to look harder, in doing so his father calls out to him from the heavens. Saying to him, that you have forgotten who you are, as you have forgotten me. He tries to explain to himself that he hasn't. His father tells him you have become more then what you are and that he must take his place in the circle of life. He tells his father how can he got back if he's not who he use to be.

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