Roger Allers Analysis

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.

At the beginning of the film the camera angle looks up towards him, the lights shine on young Simba; the importance of his birth is immense, although Simba may be oblivious to the fact at the time. Another parallel is the fact that both Simba and Hamlet at one stage wish to be dead. When Timon and Pumbaa find him, they believe Simba to be dead when they first find him. He is not – but wishes to be. The same could be said about Hamlet when he questions his life – “To be, or not to be”. Like Hamlet, Simba tends to need to be on his own to reflect. Hamlet and Simba are near perfect examples of tragic heroes. Both are tested to the extent of their inner strength and faith in the triumph of good.

There is a lot of similarities between the Lion King and Hamlet. One of the biggest similarities is the characters, their traits, and their aspiration. In the Lion King Simba’s uncle Scar killed Simba’s dad and in the play Hamlet, Claudius killed Hamlet’s father. Simba and Hamlet are super alike. They both are loving, caring, empowered, fighters and they both want to kill their uncles because of what they did to their dads. Ophelia and Nala are both loving, caring and care about Simba/Hamlet. Ophelia and Nala are both the love interest of the main character. Scar and Claudius both want control of the kingdom. Simba and Hamlet both disappear from their families for a little. Both of the families in the Lion King and Hamlet are royal families. There is still a lot more similarities, but they mostly all have to do with character traits and what they do.

When contrasting the characters in William Shakespeare's Hamlet to Disney’s The Lion King, they are different. Hamlet is a play about Hamlet trying to get revenge on his uncle for killing his father. The Lion King is a movie about a lion who runs away from his father's death and comes back to save the kingdom from his evil uncle. When specifically looking at Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Timon and Pumbaa they are different in that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are greedy, untrustworthy, and uncaring, while timon and Pumbaa are the opposite.

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.

The 2016 film Lion, which was first a book called “A Long Way Home”, is a film where a boy named Saroo was separated from his brother in the train station, which leads to Saroo getting on a train taking him thousands of miles away from his family and his home. Saroo, who was only five-years-old when he got lost, had to learn to survive alone in Kolkata, West Bengal. Days after arriving to Kolkata, the city the train left him at, he got admitted into an orphanage, which later turned out to him getting adopted by an Australian couple. But twenty-five years later, he starts to wonder where his first home and family are at the moment. With only his memories, determination, and Google Earth he starts looking and searching where his small

Watching The Lion King as a child, you see it as a tale of a young lion cub going through highs and lows and in the end defeating the villain and saving the day. But looking deeper, you see that the storyline has much more to it. It’s about the young lion cub Simba, who is the next in line to be king, who is taught by his father Mufasa. This leads to Mufasa’s brother, Scar, to create a realistic conflict, in which he kills his own brother and generates a scapegoat- Simba- by blaming him, giving him thoughts that everyone will be disappointed for the reason that it was his fault. This, in turn, causes the young cub to feel ostracized from his pride, leading him to run away. Simba meets up with a meerkat (Timon) and a warthog (Pumba), to which he conforms to their way of thinking as they raise him. They teach him Hakuna Matata - “No worries”- , which he follows and he uses it when Nala tells him to come back. It also created a self-fulfilling prophecy of

Although The Lion King and Macbeth seems like two different stories. One is set in the medieval era while the other is set in postmodernity, but both displays the similarities of the character’s strategic battle for power. Scar, known as the villain in the movie, The Lion King, committed selfish acts to fulfill his distorted desires. As Simba was at the edge of the cliff, about to be murdered by Scar, Scar snarled at him, “That [is] the way your father looked before I killed him” (The Lion King). Simba leaped up from the side of the cliff, and pushed Scar to the ground demanding him to confess to his crime of killing the king, his father, Mufasa. This quote proves that Scar’s ambition leads him to do ruthless acts, wanting to kill Simba, who was next in line of the throne. These malevolent plots are what fuels the battle of evil against the good. Scar stated to his three murders, the Hyenas, “We [are] going to kill him. And Simba, too” (The Lion King). In the movie, The Lion King, shows that Scar is resentful of the king, Mufasa, and the power he retains. In this quote, he plans a plot on who he wants to kill with the three hyenas to help him finish the deed, which shows his strong ambitions. Another

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

“Going back means I have to face my past. I have been running from it for so long”-Simba. This quote very ironic. Because in both stories the movie and play they have to face their pasts. The play is about an uncle who kills his brother to become king. The ghost of his brother informs his son what his brother has done to him. For the rest of the play it is all about revenge and the son Hamlet kills his uncle also known as stepfather for revenge. In the end when everyone faces the past and gets confronted many people die including Hamlet. This is very similar to the lion king only Simba the son does not die. His dad is killed by his uncle and his uncle take over pride rock. Then tells him to leave and never return. But he does return and when he does a fight breaks out resulting in the uncle dying. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Disney’s The Lion King are similar in many ways one is because the uncle kills his brother for power and to be king then the sons get revenge. It is also different because Simba does not die and Hamlet does.

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

Through analyzing the movies Hamlet and The Lion King, it is clear that the resemblance and differences between the two characters Hamlet and Simba and the storyline itself are very noticeable. The main similarities taken away from the movie is the similarities between these two princes that is widely talked about is the characters friendships and the death of both of their fathers. The deaths of their fathers made them try and forget and redeem their deaths. A difference between these two movies is the contrast between how Simba and Hamlet are perceived to their family and the public.

In a very sneaky way Claudius wanted everyone to think he was sending Hamlet away to be treated for him being crazy. He tried to make sure no one knew he was sending Hamlet to be beheaded in England. on the other hand Scar sets up a well planned trap for Simba. While he sets up for simba to be trampled Scar claws Mufasa on the cliff making him fall to his death. Scar then convinces simba that it was all his fault , and instructs the hyenas to scare simba off and tell him to never return again. Thinking of scars perspective he had a backup plan if Simba was to escape from the herd of beast he would get him to run away out of shame.

Summary of The Lion King: In the Disney animation loved by families everywhere, The Lion King, Simba, the young lion born into royalty. His parents have high expectation and have strict boundaries. The Lion King follows Simba as he explores the plains of Africa and stirs up trouble with his uncle, Scar.

One of the most controversial pieces of Hamlet is whether Hamlet’s madness is real or if he is faking it. If his madness isn’t real, and he is feigning it, it opens up the idea that he is using his madness as a distraction in order to divert attention from his true actions of killing Claudius. In The Lion King, Simba doesn’t have any of his own madness, but his friends Timone and Pumba supply him with some of their own. Timone and Pumba are Hamlet’s madness, but instead of Simba being mad himself, it is projected onto others. Timone and Pumba help Simba push the death of his father out of his mind, help him push the thoughts of his own death out of his mind, and help create a distraction for him realize his destiny of taking his rightful