The Lion

In the Lion King, the storytellers use the hero’s spiritual death and rebirth plotline to reveal how we as humans want our leaders to overcome obstacles to prove themselves worthy of leadership. In other words, we want our heroes to have experienced tragedy, to suffer emotionally from this tragedy, and then to become stronger as a result so they may lead us to salvation through their new wisdom. Without tragedy, we do not trust the leader has enough experience to lead us through difficult…

Compare/Contrast Essay Hamlet & Lion King To state the obvious, The Lion King is a children’s movie that is a thinly veiled version of Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare. This is beneficial because when children grow up they will have a familiar idea of what Hamlet is about. Saying that, while there are a number of similarities between the film and the play, there are also quite a few differences. In both the film and the play, there are two brothers- one portrayed as the king and…

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…

Simba of The Lion King in Contrast to Hamlet Hamlet has been a well-known novel of Shakespeare for decades. As we read the story, it is clear that there are some connections between Hamlet and the main character in The Lion King called Simba. Both characters receive advice from their fathers which are ghosts as well as being in love with someone else. However, there are still some differences between Hamlet and Simba. To begin with, it can be easily seen that the novel is set up as King Hamlet…

Over the years, Disney has made many attempts of telling the stories of the otherwise unknown culture. However, in both The Lion King (1994) and Pocahontas (1995), for example, Disney poorly represented the African and Native American cultures for entertainment and monetary profit. The Lion King is the western interpretation of African culture represented by jungle animals fighting against each other for power, mirroring the apartheid becoming an anarchy. Pocahontas is the story of the British…

The lion king shows us what it means to have courage and doing the right thing. In the scene where Mufasa dies it begins with Simba going to see something scar told him. While he is waiting he hears a rumbling train like sound and feels the floor start to shake. He notices a stamped of antelope coming straight at him. Mufasa catches wind that his son is in danger and without hesitation he runs towards his song. Once Mufasa sees Simba hanging from a tree he goes directly to him. Mufasa goes…

When debating whether a classic is more understood by adults or children, films can be a great subject. The Lion King is well-known not only for its singing animals but also for the death of Simba’s father, Mufasa. Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, is known for a love story where two lovers died. When it comes to children, The Lion King is more of a classic than Romeo and Juliet because the family feud is way easier to understand, it has easy themes for children to comprehend, and it is a…

Hamlet & Lion King In this essay I am going to talk about the differences and similarities between Hamlet and Lion King. The relationships that they developed, their uncles, and how their fathers reappeared as a ghost. I am going to talk about the friendships that was developed, fights with their uncles, and overall moral struggles. In the Lion King Simba developed a close friendship with Timone. he was there for him when he had no one to support him, and he also taught him how to enjoy life.…

Hamlet VS Lion King There are a lot of similarities and differences between Disney’s cartoon, “the Lion King” and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. For a start, both cases are about a prince and are aimed at exploring what it feels to lose a father. However, while Hamlet ends in the death of almost every character, the lion king is young viewer friendly because it is intended for children. In the lion king, Simba who is a very young lion plays the role of the young prince whose father was killed. Simba is…

Broadway play, and The Lion King probably wouldn’t have been my first pick if left up to me, but my wife had wanted to see it since she was a little girl. When I went to get concessions before the play started, the concession worker asked me if I was excited about the show and when I didn’t seem too enthused she mentioned that the show had been going on for 14 years, so it must be good to keep running for that amount of time. She was right and I think the play version of The Lion King was far…