The movie The Lion King, a Disney animated, is about the adventures of a young lion named Simba. He is the son of King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi, the royal family of the Pride Lands. All of the animal kingdom were thrilled to hear about Simba’s birth, except his cruel, evil uncle Scar. He knows that Simba will become the next king, so he sets out to kill both father and son. However, Simba escapes, but Mufasa sadly did not. He died fighting for his son's life. Therefore, Simba now returns as an adult to take back his homeland from Scar with the help of his friends. The Lion King can be shown through narrative archetypes such as Mufasa representing the wise, old man, Scar as the witch or sorceress, and Simba being the hero. For a start,
The Lion, a symbol of royalty, served as a mentor to Yvain, helping him grow into not only a man but a king. Only through his experiences with the Lion could he learn how to properly conduct himself like a man. Had he not encountered the Lion, Yvain wouldn't know what respect is. Yvain always had strength and courage like a lion but fought selfishly. After seeing the Lion defenseless against the snake he fights to defend those who cannot defend themselves. By assuming that responsibility of returning to his wife and land transforms from a boy to a man.
Although the movie The Lion King is often times viewed as nothing more than a child-based movie, in actuality, it contains a much deeper meaning. It is a movie that not only displays the hardships of maturation, and the perplexities associated with growing, but it is also a movie that deals with the search for one's identity and responsibility. As said by director Julie Taymor, "In addition to being a tale about a boy's personal growth, the `Lion King' dramatizes the ritual of the `Circle of Life'." Throughout The Lion King, Simba must endeavor through the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth to take his place in the circle of life, as king of the pridelands.
People can grow up rather fast, but some need the time to make mistakes and mature. In the book The Clay Lion, Amalie Jahn visualizes this when Brooke has to deal with the hardships that come with her brother Branson’s death. When Brooke’s life takes a turn for the worse, she made many mistakes, however she gradually comes of age by accepting Branson’s death and becoming selfless.
When I was reading the how to read literature like a professor and the hobbits the three archetypes I saw was the communion at the beginning of the book, the death and resurrection that happen to our hero through the novel, and the hero quest that was going through the entire novel.
To summarize the movie, The Lion King takes place in Pride Lands of Africa where Mufasa the lion is king. His brother Scar next in line for the throne until Mufasa and Sarabi gave birth to a lion cub called Simba. Mufasa, Sarabi his lioness and Simba were highly revered by the animal kingdom. Scar sets up a deceitful plan to kill Mufasa and Simba so that he may become king. He is successful with his plan to kill Mufasa, but Simba survives. Scar blames Simba for Mufasa's death, telling him to leave the Pride Lands and never return. Simba feeling guilty leaves, and on his journey he makes a couple of frien...
Unlikely heroes, what comes to mind, maybe Sully from Monsters Inc, Carl Fredricksen from Up, or even Lightning McQueen from Cars. Flashback fifty years and that's when Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, showed what that archetype is really about. Throughout the book his son, Jem, and daughter, Scout, learn important lessons about racism, courage, and how to treat people. Atticus defends a Negro throughout the course of the book which in result, shocks the rest of the Maycomb community. This is quite a surprise because To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the deep south during the great depression. Throughout the story, Atticus Finch becomes an unlikely hero through his fairness, compassion, and his intelligence.
Scar was cunning, manipulative, and seemed to be sort of a narcissistic lion. However even with his evil and deceiving ways he was still a coward and would rather run than fight, although if cornered Scar was able to hold his own as seen in his tussle with Simba. Scar is full of nothing but hate and disgust for his brother and nephew and everybody against him. He does not care much about the hyenas and seemed to of viewed them more as tools and weapons to use for his own benefit, this ultimately ended in his death when he tried to blame his plan on them. Scar was intolerant of failure, making the hyenas feel bad for failing to kill simba and angrily throwing them out after they made the mistake of talking about his brother, Mufasa, of whom Scar was extremely jealous. Scar was certainly one very smart lion; manipulating conversations and situations to his own advantage was a piece of cake. Scar also proved to be very sadistic, convincing his nephew, Simba, that it was his fault for his fathers death, and later going on to taunt him that in fact, he Scar, was responsible for Mufasa's death. Scar is very similar to Claudius from the Shakespearean play Hamlet; they are both the uncles of the main character, they both k...
Literary criticism is the art of practice or judging and commenting on the qualities and characters of literary work. The literary theory of archetypes is a critical theory interpreting a text by focusing on recurring symbols, images, and character types in literary work. In the fictitious novel, To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM), Harper Lee conveys archetypal criticism in order to develop character themes and symbols. In her novel, Lee exhibits many archetypes, specifically the child, hero, and victim archetype through Scout.
Have you ever thought of your sweet, loving dog becoming a savage primordial beast? Or maybe your dog moving from your cozy, warm home to sleeping in the harsh cold outside in the Yukon? In the adventure book, The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, dog named Buck is a dog from the sunny state of California, but after being abducted, is taken to the Yukon.Then, after being taught the harsh law of club and fang, Buck begins to regress and adapt to the cold and brutal North land. Buck passes through many different masters, and has pulled many sleds, but he finds himself in love with John Thornton, and at the same time he is tempted by becoming a savage beast and finally answers the call of the wild. The theme the power of the primitive is expressed many times while Buck lives in the North land and becomes a savage beast.
An archetype is a human experience or symbol that is universally known and accepted. Archetypes can be images or stories passed on through history. Carl Jung, a prominent psychiatrist in the early 1900’s, used archetypes in his theory about the human psyche and how humans can recognize these symbols because they reside in the collective human subconscious. Some common examples of archetypes are The Hero, The Mentor, The Mother, The Villain and many more. Archetypes like these can be seen in everyday things like books, tv or movies. In The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston there are many different archetypes in each story but three prominent ones are The Trickster, The Devil or Evil, and The Hero. In the novel The Trickster archetype
The movie “Red Riding Hood” is a classical art work that had been introduced to the huge collection of children bedtime story for many centuries. The significance of the movie is transformed from the original story itself. Even though it is just a fairy tale, “Red Riding Hood” associates many interesting archetypes of character that are later on being used by many motion pictures and filmmaker. The first significant character, as well as the protagonist of the story is a little girl that distinguished by a red hood. The young character is lively, crave for adventure and naïve. The same idea can also be illustrated within the framework of building many protagonists from Disney and DreamWorks studio. The potential of curiosity and venturing attitude
It is amazing how a seemingly educated woman that has won Oscar awards for her documentaries, could possibly be so far off base in her review of the Disney movie “The Lion King”. Margaret Lazarus has taken a movie made for the entertainment of children and turned it into something that is racist, sexist and stereotypes gender roles. She uses many personal arguments to review the movie but offers few solutions. The author is well organized but she lacks alternate points of view and does not use adequate sources. Lazarus utilizes the statement at the end of her review that “the Disney Magic entranced her children, but they and millions of other children were given hidden messages that could only do them and us harm” (118). She makes her point by saying that “the Disney Magic reinforces and reproduces bigoted and stereotyped views of minorities and women in our society” (Lazarus 117). She makes comparisons such as elephant graveyards are like ghettos (Lazarus 118). Other lines of reasoning Lazarus gives us are about Whoopie Goldberg using inner city dialect, the villain Scar being gay, and only those born to privilege can bring about change (118).
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The Lion King is a movie created by Disney and was released in the summer of 1994. It is about a pride of lions that uphold the cycle of nature, or as they call it “the circle of life” (The Lion King, 1994). The lion pride is considered royalty within the “Pride Lands” and are just and fair when it comes to hunting only what they need. A young prince named Simba is introduced and he is next in line to be the future king. However, Simba’s uncle Scar had other plans. He believed that it was his right all along to be named future king and wanted all of the glory to himself. Eventually, Scar comes up with an elaborate plan to rid the Pride Lands of Simba and the current King, Mufasa and take the throne for himself.
The Lion King is Disney's most successful movie to date. Many believe that the Lion King is Disney's only original movie; the only movie not previously a fairy tale from one country or another. In fact, The Lion King is in on based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Disney writers conceal the basic character archetypes and simplified storyline in a children's tale of cute lions in Africa. On the other hand William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was based on the Epic of Son-Jara or Sundiata. This lead to the debate is the Lion King based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet or the West African story, the Epic of Son Jara. Simba, Hamlet, and Son-Jara are all heroes in their own story. All of them must take on a villain that knew very well, but who does Simba’s journey resemble the most Does Simba represent Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, or Son-Jara, the lion king.