The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, And Adolf Hitler

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.

Like most movies based on novels, there are some major differences between the written and the theatrical versions of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

He believed that “Aryans” were the purified race. He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall. Although Hitler was not even close to looking like an Aryan, he showed the love he had for them. His mind-set was very racist and discriminatory. He had the idea of a “master race” and he discriminated anyone that wasn’t a part of it. He believed that the Germanic people were the only purified race and everyone else was filthy. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior." The only way Hitler could carry on his “master race” was by getting rid of every non-aryan. He went on a hunting spree for every Jew, Gypsy, homo-sexual, etc. He thought they were not pure and didn’t belong on earth, and this expresses the hatred and how discriminatory he was towards anyone that wasn’t German. By doing this, the Nazis grew in power and had the German society following them, which shows the control and power of Hitler’s words and actions. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. Hitler traveled in planes from city to city, spreading the word of the Aryan-race. He spoke to radio stations, educated children in school, posted pictures and many posters, but he mostly gave brainwashing speeches that tricked most of the German Society to follow him. He used blind obedience to grow his idea. Although most Germans followed out of fear, others seemed to resist and go against

During the Holocaust, the Jews were seen as “demons on Earth”, and Hitler wanted them destroyed. For example, Hitler blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I and the Economic crisis. He made people believe that the Jews are a different kind of race, and he wanted a “perfect society”. What he meant as a perfect society is blond hair and blue eyes. In the Salem Witch Trials, people started accusing people that they want revenge on. Abby Williams blamed Elizabeth Proctor of practicing witchcraft because she wanted to be with Elizabeth’s wife, John Proctor. He said “She (Abigail) thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!” (WordPress.com)

Hell bent on creating a perfect “Aryan” race, Hitler used propaganda and lies to work his way into the government and into peoples minds. He and the Nazi party were weapons of mass destruction, killing anyone in their path. The Jews, above all, were Hitler’s main choice of prey. He blamed the Jews for all his failures and the failures of Germany and convinced others of the same thing. And the Jews knew this. The people in concentration camps were always asking themselves if God was real, whether they were going to eat that night, and how long they were going to be stuck in hell. In a time where the Jews were questioning everything about the world, Hitler was the only constant. Wiesel expresses this by writing “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone had kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people,” (81). God had failed them and put them in hell with their friends and family were dying around them. No matter what they did, the Jews knew that whatever Hitler said he would do he’d follow

Hitler’s desire for power was one that was not a simple want, but a raging desire fueled by his anger and ideas. This desire was strong enough that he even wrote a book about it prior to achieving his position as chancellor. Mein Kampf or My Struggle, which contained “revelations concerning the nature of his character and his blueprint for Germany 's future served as a warning to the world. A warning that was mostly ignored.” (Rise of Hitler). Hitler labeled the blonde haired, blue eyed people of Germany as Aryans. This Aryan race is what he considered to be superior among the rest of the world. He considered the Jewish people to be scum and the cause of all of Germany’s problems. This belief was not just some type of prejudice carried by a man. This hatred spread across the country like a virus and eventually led to the extermination of 11 million people (Rosenberg). Six million of these people were Jews, accounting for two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population

After decades of collected prose and literary works, the nature of evil has been reintroduced through bombast and pomposity words, much like those found in Macbeth and Beowulf. These two masterpieces have set the standard not only for dark literature, but also for malevolent characters. While Macbeth and Grendel may have lived hundreds of years apart and do have many differences, both are characterized by evil traits such as naive ambition, rapacious guilt, and genuine immorality. These fatalistic and malicious characters expose that any man, or creature, has the potential to ultimately become an evil and commanding oppressor, completely disregarding the essential qualities of human

Hitler was superb at convincing people to believe everything he said. He promised the people a roast in every pot, security, and many more things. By promising the people security that meant that he would keep them all safe and that he can do a better job than anyone else. Adolf Hitler increased in support from bankers and industrialists. So, pretty

The first way Adolf Hitler used education to make students into good Nazis, was to change their textbooks and their school curriculum to further Nazi ideals. Doing this would make every student learn the Nazi ideas, whether they wanted to or not. For example, paragraph 10 states, “For Hitler, education had one purpose: to mold children into good Nazis. As soon as the Nazis came to power, they took control of the public schools, called National Schools. They threw out old textbooks and implemented new ones. They rewrote the curriculum from top to bottom, so it only taught Nazi-approved ideas.” This means Hitler wanted the children to

During the 1930’s and 1940’s, Adolf Hitler was driven to destroy by a set of racial beliefs and a desire to win territory and power for Germany. He believed that Germans were pure blooded and superior, that they were a master race that deserved to rule the world(Chaikin 1). Hitler even desired a physical unity with his dream nation; blonde hair with blue eyes; even though he himself had dark hair and dark eyes. He was convinced that all other races were inferior, especially Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, and other Slavic people. Hitler thought that they had mixed blood and were racially impure, therefore worthless(Chaikin 2). These were the main people that he killed, because of his discriminatory attitude towards them. Compared to the Holocaust, the Salem Witch Trials possessed a similar type of discrimination. The first to be accused was a foreign slave named Tituba, who was blamed for the whole predicament by many, and most of the accused were women. According to the documents from the court case´s file, Tituba was an Indian servant(Brooks “Tituba”). She was born in an Arawak village in South America in 1674. Then she was captured and taken to Barbados, where she was sold into slavery(L-G “Tituba: The Woman”). The Puritans believed that Tituba practiced voodoo, and would teach the afflicted girls fortune telling(Brooks “Tituba”). In modern day, many people

Hitler wanted to wipe out the entire Jewish population in order to create a pure race, which was his ultimate intention. By doing that, he put them in concentration camps, and killed them by putting them in gas chambers. Being the dictator that he was, he was able to influence the German nation to follow through with his ways. Millions of people died because Hitler believed that they did not deserve to live amongst those who were the “better” race, because they were different in appearance. In the Salem Witch hunts, Abigail Williams and a flock of girls accused innocent people that they were witches and siding with Satan because the girls were afraid of Abigail and they also did not want to get punished for lying about being “witches”. The Salem Witch trials killed nineteen innocent people who were under suspicion. People in Salem believed that those who did not believe in God were bad people and should be hanged, even if those who were accused good and showed kind and caring

Hitler was obsessed with the racial superiority he believed the German peoples had over all other inferior peoples. He wanted to rule the world, but in order to carry out his solution, he needed to convince the German people to listen to him. Perhaps Hitler would never have been able to do what he did had World War I never occurred. As Resnick said in his book, The Holocaust; After World War I, Germany was trying to rebuild and recover…Both the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression severely afflicted Germany. "In many respects, these terrible conditions made Hitler's rise to power possible." (Resnick p. 15) People in desperate situations will listen to anyone offering a way out. Hitler offered not only a way out of Germany's turmoil, but also someone to blame for it; he pointed at the Jews.

Hitler was a very passionate speaker that was incredibly adept to connecting to his audience in order to influence or persuade. The people he was speaking to would feel his passion. His charisma for speaking combined with the weak structure of Germany at the time made him influential beyond any other. He had the combined skills of an actor and a politician, “he could talk well and he had the actor’s gift of mimicry to amuse his companions. (Green, 2001, pg. 12), and everything he said and did had a calculated

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a fascinating, adventurous journey about 4 siblings traveling through a magical wardrobe to a land called Narnia. As they explore the land, they learn of its destiny and free it from the evil white witch, with the help of a majestic lion.