According to Stephens, recent films, like The Lion King, see masculinity as “a world which must be learned.” If we take a moment to think about Disney’s animated features, we can hardly find one that has both a father and a mother, for example, Bambi and Aladdin. The same happens in The Lion King; Simba’s father, Mufasa is killed right at the beginning when Simba is still young, and he is forced to grow up alone, away from his mother’s presence with two male animal strangers. Even though in life a cub lion would not have survived on its own, he grows up to be exactly like his father, proving that a strong and dominant male will triumph again, of course with the help of two male friends Timon and
According to Stephens, recent films, like The Lion King, see masculinity as “a world which must be learned.” If we take a moment to think about Disney’s animated features, we can hardly find one that has both a father and a mother, for example, Bambi and Aladdin. The same happens in The Lion King; Simba’s father, Mufasa is killed right at the beginning when Simba is still young, and he is forced to grow up alone, away from his mother’s presence with two male animal strangers. Even though in life a cub lion would not have survived on its own, he grows up to be exactly like his father, proving that a strong and dominant male will triumph again, of course with the help of two male friends Timon and