Scar As A Villain In 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.

Review: A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame.

Simba and Hamlet, the main protagonists of The Lion King and Hamlet, can represent both the exiled child and tragic hero archetypes. In The Lion King Simba was compelled to leave his homeland because he was led to believe he had killed his own father. In Hamlet, Hamlet was forced to leave by his uncle’s order. Likewise in The Lion King Simba’s leave was also influenced by his uncle’s action. Unlike Simba’s unawareness of his uncle’s role in his father’s death, Hamlet is fully aware of his father’s killer being his uncle. As of the beginning of Hamlet, he meets his father’s ghost who asks Hamlet for vengeance, as the ghost leaves he says “Adieu adieu Hamlet remember me”. This scene can be compared to when Simba also meets his father’s ghost, who says to Simba as he leaves “Remember who you are”. Simba’s father appears more concerned about Simba’s state of mind and convinces him to return to The Pride Lands, whereas Hamlet’s father shows little concern for Hamlet and wants to be remembered and avenged. Hamlet is older and spends less time than Simba in exile whereas Simba spends a few years exiled without a care, which is shown in the song Hakuna Matata. After his father’s influence, Simba returns. Upon both of their returns, a fight occurs. Hamlet kills his uncle and is also killed himself whereas in The Lion King Simba doesn’t actually kill scar but says to him “Run away Scar...Run. Run away and never return.” however Scar pounces on Simba and their duel begins, in the end, Simba throws Scar off a cliff leaving him to the hyenas. Hamlet and Simba both represent the exiled child and tragic by being forced to leave their homeland and to kill, fight their own uncles to save their homeland. The Lion King’s ending was altered to have almost no death to make the film

Animals travel devotedly across the African plains to witness the unveiling of the newborn prince, Simba, the cub of the esteemed Lion King, Mufasa. As he grows into an adventurous yet oftentimes reckless young lion, Simba and his best friend, and eventual mate, Nala get into mischief despite Mufasa’s attempts to teach humility, responsibility, and leadership. As Simba nears the age of assuming the throne his bitter reclusive uncle, Scar, seethes with jealousy. Plotting the deaths of his older brother and nephew, Scar stages a stampede where he murders Mufasa and scares young Simba into believing he killed his own father, forcing him to flee. Timon, a showy meerkat, and Pumba, a clueless yet companionable warthog, find Simba unconscious in

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

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

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

In Bruno Bettelheim’s book The Uses of Enchantment he writes in his essay “Fairy Tales and The Existential Predicament” that there is a widespread refusal to let children know that the source of much that goes wrong in life is due to our very own nature–the propensity of all men for acting aggressively, asocially, selfishly, out of anger and anxiety. Bettelheim implies in his essay that safe stories do not give children opportunity to experience in his or her mind the good and bad in life. In the scene where Scar meets Simba in the gorge for a talk, Scar tells Simba to stay there while he fetches his father. Scar deceives him by lying about the reason he wants him to wait in this location. What follows is a horrific scene. Earlier, there was a plan set-up by Scar with the hyenas to trigger the antelope to stampede through the gorge putting Simba’s life in danger. Scar runs to Mufasa telling him about the stampede and that Simba is in the gorge. Mufasa runs to save Simba.

In the Disney movie, The Lion King, there is a clear power struggle for absolute authority. The lions-the kings-live on Pride Rock, and rule over all species, land, and hunting grounds. When Scar overthrows Mufasa, it upsets the fragile balance of the kingdom. Granted, Scar is a crazy evil manipulative murderer, but what if another creature, say, an antelope, had some pretty good ideas for ruling the kingdom?

It is important to recognize your own personal monster because it can literally take over your life. My personal monster is jealousy. Jealousy is the feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievement and advantages. I’m jealous of everyone who still has both of their parents in their lives. When I was 14 my dad passed away due to a stroke.

In the text called King Lear by William Shakespeare, Gloucester believes that too much power brings “...Discord in palaces, love and friendship to cool off, brothers divide [...] son against father [...] father against child (Shakespeare 1.2.115-121).” In this text, the family was divided. There were no harmony and unity, instead we were shown how two families, from Lear’s side and Gloucester’s side fighting not only over who will own the land, but also for authority. We also see this same situation from the text Oedipus the King by Sophocles, where Oedipus causes his friendship with his “brother-in-law” to fall off, believing that Kreon set him up by sending Tiresias, a prophet, to accuse him of being the previous king’s murderer. Oedipus insists “...my oldest friend, loyal Kreon, worked quietly against me, aching to steal my throne (Sophocles 32).” He believed that Kreon wants his throne and the kingdom, when Tiresias is just telling the truth. Certainly, power makes a person paranoid. It causes them to think that everyone wants to take their power, so they act before thinking what their actions will cause for other people. Their actions only caused to sever ties with those close to them. According to Brent M. Rogers in the text called “Armed men are coming from the state of Missouri,” he addresses how “Ford threatened the Mormons with the possibility that he would ask the president to send the federal army to

On the other hand, in Disney's The Lion King, Simba's father is killed after he falls from a cliff into a herd of antelope. Simba falls into a deep depression after Scar twists things around and convinces Simba that he is the one responsible for Mufasa's death. Simba can not deal with what has happened and Simba exiles himself where he meets a warthog and meerkat, named Timon and Pumbaa, and develops a carefree lifestyle with them. Later on in the story, as an adult, Simba returns to the Pride Lands to reclaim the throne from Scar.

Next, the author makes her interpretation of the main villain in the movie. It is a lion named Scar, and he “speaks in an effeminate, limp pawed style given voice by actor Jeremy Irons” (118). She calls him a “seemingly gay caricature” (Lazarus 118). If Lazarus is the accomplished filmmaker, she seems to be; she should have studied movies and would know how a typical British Monarch would act. Jeremy Irons portrays Scar as an uppity, well to do lion that is in charge and does not want to get his “paws” dirty. He spends his