Similarities Between Hamlet And The Lion King

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The phrases “to be or not to be” and “hakuna matata” are very well know phrases that are a part of two very different stories but both stories also have their similarities with each other. There are the comparable characters in both the play and the movie. The similarities in the events of the story but some of the events are different chronologically. In both the play and the movie there are the diversities between the endings and who the intended audience it was made for. The animal characters in The Lion King resembles some of the characters in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In the Disney movie, The Lion King, Simba resembles Hamlet throughout the story. There are other characters that resemble other people in the Hamlet play, like Scar is …show more content…

With Simba gone Scar is the next lion to rule the thrown. In the play after Hamlets father is killed by hands of his brother, and Claudius marries his wife and that’s how he became the new king. When the Ghost of the fathers appear they are seen in different parts of the movies, one appears in the beginning telling his son who killed him and to get revenge. The other one shows in the middle of the movie to encourage his son. There are events that happen in both stories but at different times just like when the new King tries to kill the son of the late king. Towards the end of the play the King tries to get rid of Hamlet by sending him to England to supposedly help him, but it was to actually kill him. In the beginning of the movie Scar convinces Simba to run away and never come back and then sends hyenas to attack and kill him so that he could become …show more content…

In the end of Hamlet everybody is in a room watching Laertes and Hamlet fence fight, but in reality Laertes is trying to kill Hamlet with a poisoned tipped sword. Claudius also has this cup with poison in it for Hamlet to drink. In the end everyone is either stabbed with the poisoned sword or drank from the poisoned cup. The ending is horrific and gruesome because the only people that would really read it were not children, whereas The Lion King was made by Disney and their audience is a group of young children. That is probably why The Lion King is has everyone live and all the animals don’t starve from the lack of vegetation. Everything isn’t gloomy anymore, instead it is colorful and full of life after Simba reclaims his

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