The Lion King Research Paper
Demarrio Marable
ENG 1101
Ms. Johnson
25 February 2010
The Lion King The Lion King is one of the most classic children story’s told till this day. It has your traditional good guy, bad guy story line. Where you will see evil rise and then a hero will lead the good to overcome. Although if you read between the lines you will see classic pieces of literary retold and a lot of symbolism representing discrimination and many more problems that we are face with in today’s society. As you will see this story follows the same plot as Hamlet and makes underline references towards gays and blacks. If you have ever read the story of Hamlet you can see that The Lion King draws close comparison in themes in which both stories are about power, family conflict, revenge, responsibility, and interpersonal relationships. The comparison between stories runs deep in which both Simba and Hamlet were born to be the successor of Kings. Furthermore, both are cheerful children but in The Lion King, Simba cannot wait to be king, however, Hamlet doesn’t want to be king. Also there is a close comparison in the way the villains die in each story. In Hamlet, Claudius kills Old Hamlet by poison and he suffers his …show more content…
Starting with the character Scar, who is tied with signs of homosexuality through his many characteristics. Through me watching the story yesterday I saw many references made towards Scar as being “weird”. As well as how the hyenas accept Scar as one of them and cast off the fact of him being a lion. Moreover, in this film he is tagged or labeled as “the other.” Adding to this, the film is mostly bright and when he(Scar) takes over as the head of the land everything becomes all dark and gloomy and the circle of life has vanished as if there is no reproduction. Nevertheless when Simba returns life is restored and everything becomes “bright”
ENG 1101
Ms. Johnson
25 February 2010
The Lion King The Lion King is one of the most classic children story’s told till this day. It has your traditional good guy, bad guy story line. Where you will see evil rise and then a hero will lead the good to overcome. Although if you read between the lines you will see classic pieces of literary retold and a lot of symbolism representing discrimination and many more problems that we are face with in today’s society. As you will see this story follows the same plot as Hamlet and makes underline references towards gays and blacks. If you have ever read the story of Hamlet you can see that The Lion King draws close comparison in themes in which both stories are about power, family conflict, revenge, responsibility, and interpersonal relationships. The comparison between stories runs deep in which both Simba and Hamlet were born to be the successor of Kings. Furthermore, both are cheerful children but in The Lion King, Simba cannot wait to be king, however, Hamlet doesn’t want to be king. Also there is a close comparison in the way the villains die in each story. In Hamlet, Claudius kills Old Hamlet by poison and he suffers his …show more content…
Starting with the character Scar, who is tied with signs of homosexuality through his many characteristics. Through me watching the story yesterday I saw many references made towards Scar as being “weird”. As well as how the hyenas accept Scar as one of them and cast off the fact of him being a lion. Moreover, in this film he is tagged or labeled as “the other.” Adding to this, the film is mostly bright and when he(Scar) takes over as the head of the land everything becomes all dark and gloomy and the circle of life has vanished as if there is no reproduction. Nevertheless when Simba returns life is restored and everything becomes “bright”