The Lion King

of the play when Macbeth has just won a great battle, which later ended up giving him the title of the Thane of Cawdor, he meets with three witches that tell him a prophecy of his future. They tell him that he will be announced king in the near future. Later…

on Charles Perrault's original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney's 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess and king of a corrupt kingdom. Sleeping beauty is a story showing a more sympathetic, nuanced version of the iconic fairy tale. On the other hand, Maleficent which is adapted from Sleeping Beauty story claims to be a deeper look at the story behind…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

The fox and the hound is a 1981 American animated adventure drama film based on a 1967 novel written by American novelist Daniel P. Mannix. The novel unfolds the details of the life of Tod, a red fox that was raised by a human at the early year of its life and Copper, a bloodhound hunting dog. The novel won Dutton Animal Book Award in 1967 which made Walt Disney Production to buy over the film rights for the novel. After modifying from the original source to make it into a more family story,…

down since he is missing. Felix meets Sergeant Calhoun that tells him that the Cy-Bug would destroy any game and he immediately falls in love with her. Ralph helps Vanellope to build her own racing car and becomes her hero; but soon he is convinced by King Candy that Vanellope is just a glitch and she may destroy Sugar Rush. Ralph destroys her car and her dreams expecting to protect Vanellope. But when he sees…

turned the image of Pentheus to a mountain lion, the creature had acquired the ability to grow; as Dionysus had once taught the people to grow the vine. From each limb Agave and the followers of Dionysus had wretched, grew a mountain lion. One for Pentheus’ torso, tail, left arm, right arm, left leg right leg, and head. Thus Pentheus lived on through the head of the lion his mother had once Unaware that his own mother Agave hallucinated him as a lion, Pentheus felt betrayed and planned to…

man who slowly transforms into an animal. The relation begins with the man explaining how he met the axolotls by chance one spring day. According to the narrator, the lions and panthers from Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, i.e., the zoo that belongs to the botanical gardens Jardin des Plantes, were his friends, but since the lions were ugly and sad and the panthers were asleep, he decides to go into the aquarium one particular morning. There he becomes acquainted with the animals he latterly…

As depicted by the countless sold copies of this sort, tragedies appeal to the pathos of human pity. Having been distinguished from their beginning in ancient Greece, when authors such as Sophocles and Homer wrote rhetorics that are still being taught today. In fact, famous, talented Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies including the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, it is no surprise that he exquisitely produced the play “Othello”, illustrating the…

A young lamb hiding in the shadow of a lion, a predator in the game of war, and prey in the game of love, wages a new battle in foreign territory. William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is a play in which its characters are defined by their respective reputations. On one hand, are Leonato and Don Pedro: the leaders of two politically powerful families, whose desires are of the utmost priority for those surrounding them. On the flipside, characters like Don Jon and Dogberry are not given…

“The idea that animation is an innocent medium, ostensibly for children, and largely dismissed in film histories, has done much to inhibit the proper discussion of issues concerning representation.“ (Wells, 1998, 187) Disney has had a great impact on our everyday lives. Every child, boy or a girl, and every adult, man or a woman, can say that they have encountered Disney's product at least once. Therefore, it is obvious how the certain features which Disney includes in the movies are important…