Scar As Depicted In The Lion King

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The classic Disney movie, The Lion King is known across the world as an essential children’s film. In the movie, The Lion King, Simba, a lion cub, is born under his parents who are the king and queen of Pride Rock. His father’s name is Mufasa and his mother’s name is Sarabi. Simba is now the first in throne to become king. As a result, he kicks out his uncle, Scar, of becoming king. Scar is not too happy about this which results in him wanting to kill Simba. He tags a long with the hyenas to create a gang. Since Simba is too young to take care of himself, his father is constantly protecting him. This causes Scar to kill Mufasa while he is protecting Simba. Scar is successful in killing Mufasa because he staged a stampede that caused …show more content…

The group that is in power is the elites. The movie revolves on who is in power at every specific moment. It starts off with Mufasa, Scar, and then ending with Simba. In order to be an elite, you have to be born into the family. Everyone does not have a chance of becoming an elite like Simba and his family. The being an elite caused all the conflict in the movie. Since Scar was not an elitist, he did not have an opportunity to become one, but he found out that if he killed Mufasa he had a chance to become one. Even though not everyone in Pride rock had a chance with being an elite, everyone was content with the situation. Scar was the only one that was not okay with it. Mufasa had a form of democracy when he was in power. He listened to the community and made sure all his decisions would help the community. The animals loved him because he really cared. When Scar came to power it was a whole different situation. Scars government turns into a type of communism. He keeps himself and his crew, the hyenas, on top of everyone. Everything that he does only benefits himself and his crew. He did not listen to the community when they were asking for his help. The community was running out of food which resulted in asking Scar for help, but he did not pay any attention to it. Since he did not pay attention to the community, he was kicked out of his ruling. His actions led to him not being the king of

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