Leadership and Power in "The Lion King"

Rafiki teaches him that, "you can either run from the past, or learn from it." This statement is important because Simba needed to put the death of his father behind him instead of running from it. Simba realizes he needs to return to his rightful place as king. The struggles he knows he must face are regaining his kingdom and defeating Scar.

However, he doesn't feel he deserves to be king, thinking that he killed his father. This guilt plays on him all the time, and he truly believes that he doesn't deserve to be king. Despite this, Simba is a very noble sort of person, and would be willing to give his life for anyone. He is willing to fight for the beliefs that his father instilled in him. While quick to rise, he also tries to watch himself and calm down. He tends to watch himself often, trying to turn into the kind of lion, er, person his father wanted him to be.

Leadership is now more evident than ever in our everyday lives as well as in the everyday media. The movie Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi is a demonstration of leadership in my many different aspects. This movie is the story of three African American women that were an important asset to NASA during the early years of the Space Race. The movie highlights the concepts of Servant Leadership, Authentic Leader, the Situational Approach to leadership, Leader-Member Exchange Theory and Adaptive Leadership.

Simba’s heroic qualities don’t just stand out when he is found by Nala begging him to return to Pride Rock to save everyone and the community, but also when he meets Pumbaa and Timon. He is learning how to survive on his own and how to be a true friend. Simba shows all characteristics of a hero throughout his journey, it begins with his separation from his family, and his choice to runaway. Simba has to deal with guilt and is tested emotionally, he has been told that he killed his father and needs

He then told the hyenas to chase the wildebeest into the stampede area that Simba was in. Which in doing so almost killed Simba and killed his father. After Simba knew his father was dead Scar told Simba it was his fault and he should run away. Simba was tricked in to believing it was his fault and ran away. This affected him because he lived half his life in shame that he killed his own father, when Scar actually killed him.

At the beginning of the movie, you can already tell that Scar has an attitude toward the king. This would show how he is and how he treats Simba throughout

The leadership styles of Mufasa and Scar are bipolar opposites with Mufasa being the Transformational and Scar being the transactional styles of leadership. Mufasa as the King of the pride lands showed his transformational leadership style by providing the vision of the circle of life to inspire how everyone is a part of that circle and it is his and Simba’s responsibility to be a part of and maintain that circle for the betterment of the entire pride lands. Mufasa also inspired his subjects to be the best they can be such as the bird Zazu who managed the king schedule and the baboon Rafiki who was the religious leader and

The theme of leadership in the ward does not mirror the outside world very accurately, as in contemporary society a leader of a society or an organisation is almost always accountable to a person senior to him. This is not seen in the novel, as Big Nurse seems to be answerable to no one, in fact, it is arguable that everyone answers to her. A hierarchy or class system operates inside the ward which can be clearly seen throughout the course of the novel. Patients living within the ward are ‘classed’ according to the state of their mental health or to the condition of which they suffer from. Chief describes the method of discriminating patients from

Scar uses Simba’s adventurous and curious characteristics to his own advantage. Scar purposely lures Simba to the elephant graveyard even though he is aware of the dangers that could potentially harm Simba. “And he's absolutely right. It's far too dangerous. Only the bravest lions go there” (The Lion King). Scar is aware that in order to become king, he needs Simba and Mufasa to not be in the kingdom. During this scene Scar tricks

Disney 's The Lion King is one of the most iconic children 's films of all time. However, behind the Hakunah Matata lies a movie laced with symbolism and mythical references. An online article from Thinkquest.org informs that the movie 's popular Elephant Graveyard represents the mythical Realm of Hades. The article continues to delve deeper into the symbolism, stating that the three hyenas, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, represent the three-headed beast, Cerebus, that guards Hades '

11. Simba knows that the throne is rightly his but does not seek revenge on his uncle unlike Hamlet who seeks revenge on his uncle in order to avenge his father’s death.

This is because Scar does not want to confront the fact that he fails as King compared to Mufasa as this would destroy his superior image of himself, which substantiates his narcissistic sensitivity to criticism. Such narcissistic sensitivity to criticism is a prominent trait in sociopaths, as many of them are unwilling to accept disapproval since it opposes their ego. Next, Scar’s intolerance of failure further exhibits his narcissistic sensitivity to criticism. Simba’s mother warns Scar that “you have sentenced us to death!” after he refuses to abandon the Pridelands in result of the food insecurity. Scar then responds, “Then so be it”. Scar’s refusal displays his inability to accept that he has not been able to uphold the same prosperity in his Kingdom compared to Mufasa’s reign since acknowledging that would indicate that Scar fails as being King. Therefore, this confirms Scar’s sociopathy because sociopaths are unable to accept failure since that would signify their flaws and damage their grandiose self-image. Lastly, Scar’s inability to admit his wrongdoings further indicates his narcissistic sensitivity to

In Hamlet, Hamlet is sent away to England (Hamlet, 4.3.41). Hamlet faked being crazy to convince those around him he knew nothing about Claudius (Zeffirelli, Hamlet). Also, the murder of Polonius seemed to force Claudius to do something with Hamlet (Hamlet, 3.4.23). Everyone now believed Hamlet was dangerous and was a threat to the castles well-being. It is, for this reason, Claudius forced Hamlet into exile and probable death (Zeffirelli, Hamlet). As for Allers’s The Lion King, Scar persuaded Simba that he was the reason Mufasa has passed. When Scar pushed Mufasa into the gorge, Simba was out of sight. After Mufasa had been pushed, Scar blamed Simba for being in the gorge in the first place. Since Simba was blind to the truth of what happened, Scar was easily able to persuade him that he was the real reason his father died. This fear was enough to drive Simba away from the kingdom. This absence gave Scar the perfect opportunity to rule the kingdom he craved so

C Being a young prince and one day King, Simba is expected to act accordingly. As any young and curious lion would, he feels the pressure of his position as prince, and finds himself in some very tricky situations. Simba must realize that someday he will be the leader of the whole kingdom, and must mature into not only role model for animals everywhere, but also learn how to rule over an entire kingdom.

Over the course of the film, Simba goes from being a cub determined to be a king to a young adult wanting nothing to do with his past because of what happened to his father. He believed for years that he was the one responsible for his father’s death only to learn that it was his uncle’s fault that his father had died. This set him on a path of redeeming not just himself but the kingdom in which he was born to lead.