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The film The Lion King has entranced audiences young and old alike since its release in 1994. The story follows protagonist Simba, a young lion cub, on his journey to find himself and restore peace in his homeland. Simba is the true embodiment of an epic hero. Cunning, brave, humble, and a natural leader, he encapsulates the spirit of a hero in almost every way. Simba is an epic hero because of his ability to overcome obstacles and his strong moral compass. A chapter of the hero’s journey that…

The incarceration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of the peaceful protest of the blacks in the south in the early 1960s. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because equal rights is a freedom that is given in a free society. Civil disobedience is a safe form of protest that doesn't put anybody in harm's way or be viewed as a violent action. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to the clergy from Birmingham Jail was a simple explanation of his nonviolent…

Tianming -- Analysis of The King of Masks (1996) The film The King of Masks (1996), describes an elderly artist who has extraordinary skill that is able to change masks frequently on-stage named as the king of masks, living alone, wants to find a boy (the skill can only be passed to male inheritor) to pass his skills to him. The story begins when once in a human trafficking market, the king of masks bought a boy named Gou Wa, they kept each other alive from then and the king of mask loved Gou…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King was written in Victorian England and the latest version was published in 1885, though the actual writing process covered a span of almost 50 years. Tennyson bases the series of poems comprising the Idylls on the European myth of King Arthur and the court of Camelot and various other adaptations of that legend. The evolution of Tennyson’s female characters to their final stages underscores an undermining of traditional Victorian gender roles by…

and Hamlet both embark on a mission to avenge a murdered king, yet in finding the culprit, the truth threatens to tear to the royal family apart.…

them. Burger kings conducted research and wants to increase their customers so they decided to open King’s café. It is a correct decision. The success of the King’s café depends upon the quality of the food products provided. Burger king should take into account different aspect like competitors, financial status etc. But there are four major factors which affects the sale…

Elements” both deal with the choices that filmmakers make to have a specific effect on the audience’s meaning or understanding. Some of these literary and cinematic choices can also be seen in the movie The Lion King. Every choice made has a very specific reason. In Disney’s 1994 movie, The Lion King, there are many cinematic and literary elements included to have an effect on…

your mother without knowing? Oedipus lived through this humiliation. His stubbornness forced the truth to be revealed about his crimes and he lost his noble title of king and hero of Thebes. The combination of Oedipus’s noble stature, fatal flaw, and downfall make him a prime example of a tragic hero. “Great Oedipus, O powerful King of Thebes! You see how all the ages of our people cling to your altar steps.” (16). Oedipus gained popularity and honor amongst the Thebans after defeating the…

Plot and Storyline Compared. When most children and even adults watch the lion king, they are likely not thinking about the similarities within the iconic Disney film to the Shakespearean classic, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The two works have their differences at times, however, after reading Hamlet and watching the film it is obvious it is chocked full of references to the play. Both versions use imagery and setting to help convey understanding of the plot. These topics along…

King Lear and The Queen Comparative Essay Stephen Frears’s 2006 movie ‘The Queen’ and William Shakespeare’s performance of ‘King Lear’ written in the 16th centaury both share the common universal themes of power of nature and power of words. This essay will show readers the similarities and the different on how both composers use their different techniques to betray each of the themes. At the beginning of the Queen Stephen Frears includes intertextuality a quote from Shakespeare. The quote…