Compare And Contrast Simba And Hamlet

Simba of The Lion King in Contrast to Hamlet The two stories have individual beginning as the play starts as King Hamlet is already murdered and Claudius takes the throne as well as gets married with Getrude, who is Hamlet’s mother and on the other hand, The Lion King begins similarly to other Disney movies that is the delightful time of the main character, which is Simba at a young age. King Hamlet, who is known as the Ghost, appears more than once throughout the story in order to give Hamlet advice what to do and also tells his son the truth behind his death and what he wants, which is to revenge for his father. In contrast, Mufasa, who is Simba’s father, shows up later in the movies when Simba fully grows up and becomes an adult but he

He starts to say some meaningless things so that the others find it difficult to understand what he says “How pregnant sometimes his replies are!” ( II.ii.211) but he still knows what to do “ I am mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw” (II.ii.364-365) and he literally loses all his trust in anyone including his “friends” such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet declares that he was “born to set [the circumstances of his father’s death] right” ( I.v.189), which shows that he is responsible to avenge for his father. The audiences can easily realize how much it affects Hamlet and that Hamlet strongly loves and honors his father. Similarly, Simba is incredibly close to his father and is also upsetting after his father passed away. However, unlike Hamlet, Simba is likely to want to run away after thinking that he is the one who caused the death of his father but he later changed his thought “I just can’t wait to be the

In Hamlet, the old Hamlet is murdered by being poisoned in the ear by his brother but in The Lion King, Mufasa is killed by falling off the hill after being pushed by Scar, who is also his brother. Later in the stories, the villiains are killed by the quietly similar ways such as Claudius is killed from the blade’s poison which is supposed to be prepared for Hamlet and Scar is dead after falling off the hill. Moreover, their two love stories are totally unalike to each other as well. Hamlet and Ophelia have a sad love story in general as they are not allowed to be together since the beginning of the play. Polonius would say anything to make Ophelia stay away from Hamlet and later in the story, unfortunately, Ophelia was also found commited suicide after being insane. However, Simba has a happy ending with his lover known as Nala although it is originally a prearranged marriage. They are friends since their childhood but the feelings develop through time and they later build a strong relationship