Have you ever read a book that reminds you of a movie ? Shakespeare's’ book Hamlet is corporated into the movie The Lion King. These two have a connection that’s undeniable in similarity. The Lion King is more focused on getting everything back to normal at Pride Rock, while Hamlet focuses on getting revenge.
In Hamlet, Hamlet chooses to kill and it takes over his life, and while in The Lion King, Simba does not kill and it allows him to move on. While talking to his mother, “Hamlet [spinning around] What ! A rat ? [He draws his rapier and thrusts through the tapestry] I’ll kill it cheap ! Dead ! Polonius : [from behind the tapestry] Oh, he’s killed me !” (3.4.26-27). By not knowing what Hamlet is capable of, he is damaging his own life. When Hamlet
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Hamlet is letting it spiral out of control .In the duel, “ Hamlet [forces king to drink the poison. The king dies].” (5.2.337). When you are trying to avenge someone, the obstacles you face are life threatening. Hamlet was facing and making decisions that no one should do at his age. Killing a person is not the best way to avenge someone. Hamlet is translated from having humans as characters to having animals being the characters. The animals will have the same occurrences as Hamlets characters do. In The Lion King, Simba lives and continues the Circle of Life with Nala. Simba and Nala are now the rulers of Pride Rock and are continuing with the tradition of having Rafiki holding up the baby lion toward the sky.However, when Simba confronts Scar, Simba calls him a murderer. Scar then says “you wouldn’t kill your own uncle” and Simba says “No
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.
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
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
We are never shown this in Hamlet; instead we discover that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (1.5 90). We are left to assume that things have deteriorated since Claudius took the throne. Since we cannot see the geographical setting that lies beyond the stage in Hamlet, we are constantly reminded of the sick state by characters and events: the undertones of incest, the drunken revelries of the marriage feast, and the impending threat of invasion from Norway. The Lion King does not have the restrictions of the stage, and therefore we can actually see the physical landscape turn from paradise into a wasteland under Scar's rule. At the beginning of the movie, we are shown the elephant graveyard where the hyenas live. Once Scar allows the hyenas to venture beyond the borders and into his kingdom, the entire land looks like this graveyard - gray, barren, and parched, with niether food nor water. Suddenly there is a striking resemblance to Denmark in Hamlet's opening scene. There is no need to explore the political unrest or poisoned gene pool; Disney has converted all psychological and emotional complexities into the visible deterioration of the physical landscape. And when Simba comes back and conquers Scar at the end of the movie, it begins to rain almost instantly, putting out the raging fire that has spontaneously caught during the final battle, and instantaneously bringing new life to the landscape. No such luck for Hamlet - because he and everyone
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.
Hamlet, which was actually mirrored by Disney’s The Lion King, dives into the effects of power, revenge, deceit and even love. Therefore, Hamlet remains a crucial piece of classic literature because of its emphasis on human emotions, mortality and how conflict affects the character’s growth.
In both Hamlet and The Lion king we are first off presented with environments that represent the theme of what will happen throughout. In the Lion King, the first scene shows the presenting of Simba to the pride lands of Africa. The scene shows bright colors, up bringing music and a clear nice day. This symbolizes good things to come and a new beginning. However, in Hamlet, we are presented with the theme of death at the very beginning in that we find out the king has been murdered.
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
Out of spite, both protagonists plan to take revenge on their evil uncles. Hamlet ponders on the idea of revenging his father’s death, but it wasn’t until Claudius’ guilty conscience was exposed during the play and also when the Ghost orders Hamlet to “Revenge his soul!” that Hamlets purpose was clear. In the end, Hamlet confronts Claudius but it is pointless ending in a blood battle. Simba on the other hand was told, “Run away and never return!” after believing it was himself who killed his father. Wanting to do what was right, Simba followed his uncle’s orders and it wasn’t until a chance encounter with Nala, that he realised the damage he had caused. Trying to take back what was rightfully his, Simba defeats Scar but instead of death as his revenge, he banishes Scar from The Pride Lands, telling his “to never return”. Both antagonists in the texts experience the heartbreak and misfortune of revenge but deal with it in ways their intended audiences will understand and learn from.
The purpose of this report is to compare and contrast two movies made about Hamlet. I will present and discuss different aspects of the version directed by Kenneth Branagh to that of Franco Zefirelli. During this paper you will be presented with my opinions in reference to determining which version of Hamlet best reflects the original text by Shakespeare. I will end this paper with my belief and explanation of which movie is true to the original play.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and King Lear are not only exhibitions of human experience but also studies in the spiritual life of man. Through these two plays Shakespeare has elaborately attempted to get a meaning out of life, and not to show its mystery or madness despite the fact that madness as simulation has been a source of fascination in these two tragedies. In Shakespeare’s Madness and Music, Kendra Preston Leonard says that Hamlet and King Lear ultimately focus on crises of family and power and involve a recurring early modern trope: madness (1). Concerning madness, Foucault says in Madness and Civilization, that it constitutes the knot more than the denouement, the peripety rather than the final release (32). Foucault sheds light on the
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.