Comparing Hamlet And The Lion King

After the process of making their way back home, both princes end up with fighting with their uncles. In “The Lion King”, Simba fights with Scar and Scar gets killed by the hyenas. Prince Hamlet in Hamlet kills king Claudius with a poisonous knife. Both “The Lion King” and “Hamlet” allows the main character to overcome a moral struggle. In “The Lion King”, Simba must act and be the king of his palace for sake of the animals of the kingdom and his father instead of running from what happened in the past. In “Hamlet”, prince Hamlet must decide to kill his uncle and take the risk of getting himself killed, or to keep the secret of King Claudius killing King Hamlet and live with it for the rest of his life.

In Hamlet; the people of Denmark are upset because of the death of Old King Hamlet who passed away because he was bitten by a poisonous snake and Claudius had to become king. Hamlet sees a ghost who looks like his father, who is roaming around the castle. Hamlet tries to talk to the ghost; the ghost tells Hamlet that he is his father and he was killed in the most unnatural way. Hamlet is told by his ghost father that he wasn’t killed by poisonous snake, it is a lie that has fooled everyone in Denmark; Old King Hamlet says to Hamlet, “but know, thou noble youth,/ the serpent that did sting thy father’s life/ now wears his crown” (1. 5. 45-47). Hamlet was told by his ghost father that he has to walk the earth at night until he is done penance for his past sins; the horrible crime that is against nature, a king dies unnaturally. Old King Hamlet’s ghost tells Hamlet that he was sleeping in the garden and his brother Claudius snuck into the room as he was sleeping and poured poison into his ear; he wasn’t killed by a poisonous snake but his brother Claudius killed him. Claudius “robbed Old King Hamlet of his life, crown and queen; he cut him off in the middle of a sinful life” (1.5. 81-83) and he wants revenge on Claudius; Hamlet agrees to get revenge on his uncle Claudius for his father Old King Hamlet. In The Lion King; Scar wants to be king, he plans to kill his brother Mufasa; Scar

When comparing the characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Disney’s The Lion King, they are similar. Hamlet is a play about a boy who lost his father and had to get revenge on his uncle, the new King and the killer of his father. The Lion King is a movie about a young lion who loses his father and then struggles with his uncle and finding his place in the circle of life. When specifically looking at Scar and Claudius they are similar because they are cruel, selfish, and two-faced.

Neither makes an attempt to kill on their own once more. each deem the stupidity of others to get the task done. Scar repeatedly enlists the hyenas to murder Simba, and Claudius depends on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet to the leaders of England to end his life. The hyenas and R&G are both bad choices as a result of the princes aren't killed in either circumstance. In Hamlet, Hamlet is simply too smart to be outwitted, within the Lion King, the hyenas are simply too stupid to kill Simba. Hamlet and Simba are close to perfect samples of tragic heroes. Each are tested to the extent of their inner strength and faith within the triumph of good. Simba was shown high ethical standards by his father. He was terribly upset with himself when he disobeyed his father as a cub. when Scar blames Mufasa's death on him, Simba falls into a deep depression. He leaves the pride and wanders into the forest, desperate to die. Timone and Pumbaa rescue him by carrying him into the shade once he faints from the warmth of the sun and his solely need is to keep going until he dies. Hamlet contemplated suicide as well, except for each the determination inside them to live won

One way they are similar is that they both want to murder their brother to achieve glory. However, the way they become king is different. Once Claudius murders his brother, he becomes king. Then he tries to get along with Hamlet so that Hamlet could forget about his father. Claudius murders the king by putting poison in his ear while sleeping. In the Lion King, Scar does the opposite, what he does it try to get along with Simba before his father’s death because he has a plan. His plan was to get Simba and put him in a stampede, while Mufasa would try to save him. Mufasa does save Simba, but Mufasa dies because he was on a cliff and was asking for Scar’s help. Scar didn’t help him, he just threw Mufasa off the cliff into the stampede. When Mufasa dies, Scar tells Simba that it was his fault for his father’s death, so Simba leaves his home and runs away.

Despite the obvious similarities with the characters, the central plot of both The Lion King and Hamlet is very alike. First, both Mufasa and King Hamlet, the father of the protagonist, are murdered by their brothers, Claudius and Scar who then took over as their thrown. Second, both Mufasa and King Hamlet reappear as “ghosts”. However, when they came back “beyond the grave”,

In The Lion King, Minkoff and Allers present a clear difference between good and evil, whereas Shakespeare’s depiction of good and evil character in Hamlet is not so clear. The characters in The Lion King are categorised almost immediately in the orientation of the film, with the image of the characters giving the audience a clear picture of who the suspected betrayer is. However in the play Hamlet it’s a lot more difficult to label the characters as good or evil, the audience cannot be certain that Claudius is evil until the climax when he reacts to the play organised by Hamlet.

Shakespeare is recognized for having most of his characters die throughout his plays and Hamlet is no different. Hamlet suffers because of his father’s brutal murder. “To be or not to be—that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, /Or to take arms against a sea of troubles/And, by opposing, end them” (3.1.64-68) Hamlet seems suicidal in the beginning of the play and he thinks that the whole world is fraudulent and that he wishes his “flesh would melt”. He wants to commit suicide but considers it to be a great sin. Instead, Hamlet starts to explore and ponder upon the reasons as to why people do commit suicide. As there is a constant pattern of deaths in the play such as the death of his father, his murder of Polonius and Ophelia’s suicide, it seems as if there is a never ending string of deaths in the play. On the other hand, Pi also goes through this same suffering of dealing with the death of his loved ones. He loses his entire family in a short period of time and is left alone to mourn their deaths. “They were dead; I could no longer deny it. What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone […] to lose your father is to lose the one who’s guidance and help you seek; who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you.” (Ch. 46) Pi speaks of the death of his brother, father and mother and how it feels like to lose each one of them. He is left alone at the sea alone with his thoughts and anguish along with the ferocious tiger, Richard Parker. Both the characters face the worst of suffering and death, a theme that truly controls the plotline of these sad

Lets go! Ok so in the movie Only Mufassa and scar die in the lion king while in Hamlet 6 people die. An example of someone dying is when Polonius dies. Hamlet is playing

Many literary works can be compared due to vast amounts of similarities between theme and characters; Hamlet and the Lion King are two literary works in which character and theme are surprisingly similar throughout each work. The Lion King is thought to be just an animated children’s film, however, it is in fact a modern translation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The main characters in the Lion King are definite parallels to those in Hamlet. Along with the main characters and plot details, the stories were similar in the representation of the secondary characters. "Here's my little secret, I killed Mufasa.” The theme in Hamlet can be compared to the Walt Disney movie The Lion King. Hamlet and Simba are betrayed by their uncles whom murder their

Though not exactly the same, the two stories’ plot lines have some parallels. The main similarity is the murder of the former king. Greed and jealousy wash over the brothers of the kings which leads them to remove their brothers from the throne through death. In Hamlet, it is said that Claudius killed elder Hamlet by poisoning him. This is revealed later in the story. In the movie The Lion King, it shows the step by step plan of how Scar kills Mufasa. Scar convinces Simba that Mufasa has a surprise for the young cub, so he convinces him to wait in a gorge while Scar went to retrieve Mufasa. Little did Simba know that a stampede of wildebeest influenced by Scar’s hyenas would come down the hill intended to kill young Simba. Scar reaches Mufasa

When contrasting the characters in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet to the characters in Walt Disney’s film, The Lion King, there are many differences in characterization. Hamlet is a play set in Denmark that tells the story of the tragic murder of King Hamlet and the emotional effects it has on his son, Prince Hamlet. The Prince’s mental instability causes him to go wildly insane over his love for Ophelia, who he will never have. He seeks vengeance on his uncle who is guilty of his father's murder. The Lion King is a film about Simba, a young lion prince who grieves over the untimely death of his father, the King of the Pride Lands. Simba discovers his Uncle Scar was the cause of his father's death. He must now return to Pride Rock in order to save his home and all who live there from the chaos under the ruling of Scar while he finds his place in society. When analyzing the characters Ophelia and Nala, they are dissimilar in their traits of obedience, dependence, and inner strength.

The two texts ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Hamlet’ explore the meaning of heroes and villains. Simba and Hamlet have the same characteristics they both wanted to take back what was rightly there’s. It took a couple of years for Simba to realize that he does deserve to be king and to fight for his throne. Hamlets mindset was the same, when his father’s ghost appeared, hamlet said “To be or not to be” he was second guessing his life and wanted to die, but after taking a long think he jumped up and wanted to get revenge for his father.

The Lion King and Hamlet have a lot of similarities, but it also has some differences that are pretty noticeable. For say The Lion King is a more family-friendly movie as for Hamlet has more of a PG14 plot.There is a lot more sexual joke in Hamlet, but in the Lion King, there was not any or only a few sexual jokes. There are also a lot of similarities in both plots like in the characters, but there are lots more similarities than just characters. Disney changed a lot of stuff to make it more kid-friendly and so that Shakespeare fans don’t get super mad because they copied Hamlet exactly, but there is still lots of similarities, but a lot more differences

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is without question the most famous play in the English language. Hamlet is a play about a character's struggles with the opposing forces of moral integrity and the need to avenge his father's murder. Disney's The Lion King is an award winning film about a young lion cub named Simba, and his struggles against himself and reality. The movie, The Lion King, and the book, Hamlet, both have a similar story line. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Disney's The Lion King have similar occurrences such as, the king is killed and revenge is sought by the king's son, the murderers are the king's brothers who want the power of the throne, and many others; but each story is also unique in their own ways.