Have you ever wondered what the difference and similarities between Hamlet and The Lion King are? No you haven’t, but it doesn’t hurt to know some random information. Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Is about the death of a king and how it takes its toll on everyone else. It’s a story about betrayal and murder. The Lion King is loosely based on this play. It’s about a king who was murdered and how that affects all of his people and how his son must avenge him. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Disney’s The Lion King are similar because of how both Scar and Claudius die and are different because of how the old kings were murdered. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Disney’s The Lion King are similar because both Claudius and Scar get killed …show more content…
When Hamlet is talking to his father's ghost, Act one, scene five, he learns the truth and details of the late king’s death. Which was that he was poisoned and murdered by his own brother. When explaining his death, the old kings say “foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.25). This concludes what Hamlet had thought to begin with, his father was murdered. However, in The Lion King the death of the old king is very different.Mufasa (equivalent to Old Hamlet) was still murdered by his brother Scar, but he was thrown off a cliff into a herd of animals. Mufasa was under the impression that his son, Simba, had been in trouble because he was in the middle of the herd of animals. When he saves Simba, he tries to scale a cliff, but needs help from his brother. Instead of pulling him up Scar pushes him off, his final words to Mufasa were iconically “Long live the king”. This example shows that although the Old Kings both die by the hand of their brothers they are killed differently. In the play The king is killed by poison and in the movie the king is thrown off a cliff. Because of the largely different death sequences for the Old Kings, Hamlet and The Lion King are
The most prominent character parallel between the two works is that of Prince Hamlet and Sweeney Todd. They have similar motives and plans to reach their
After a series of unfortunate deaths in the main character’s, Liesel, life, everything was taken away in the span of half an hour by an “accidental” bombing. When comparing and contrasting the two novels Hamlet and The Book Thief, there is one literary device used in both novels quite often. Although this literary device appears to be used in both novels, it is used differently in each novel. This literary device is conflict. There are also other literary devices used in both novels. Symbolism is used a lot in The Book Thief and character development is used frequently in Hamlet. There are also similarities between the two novels. The most important one is the theme they share, those who are loved by most make the gravest of mistakes. However, like every novel, each one has its own theme.After all, a novel without a theme would be boring. The theme in Hamlet is revenge only destroys what you are trying to save and protect. In The Book Thief, the theme is words are weapons that need to be used
The featured protagonists in the Lion King, Scar, and in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, Claudius, are two comparable characters due to their envy of what has been denied to them by birth right — to be king. In the following you will read what separates the text from the 1994 film and what brings them together, with details of how they murdered their brother, whether they’re capable monarchs, and how their treason comes back to haunt them. By comparing the children's classic villain, Scar with the early modern english classic, Claudius, we can identify the subtle differences as well as the similarities between the characters from the film and the play.
The Lion King and Hamlet. In one film it is “to be or not to be” and the other is “to hunt or to be hunted”. At the surface these two seem to have nothing in common, but when one digs deep he/she can see how similar they are. Yet with all their similarities a few of their characters are written differently. Was it really bad for Claudius to be king? Was Hamlet’s Crusade as justifiable as Simba’s? Was Hamlets plot a reverse of The Lion King? Was their circle of life corrupt from the beginning and was Claudius Mufasa? Hamlet/Simba and Claudius/Scar may be similar in terms of ideology, but different from their results.
The most obvious similarity is the characters. The main characters are seen in both the play and movie. A lot of the minor characters do not change either. Of course, the dialogue is followed almost exactly. There are lines here and there that are cut out, but for the most part all the lines that are not cut out are the exact same. Also, the plot is the same too. In both the movie and the play, Hamlet seeks revenge on Claudius for killing his father. They play that Hamlet puts on is in both the movie and the play that proves he is trying to seek revenge. Hamlet also does not kill Claudius when he has the chance in both the movie and the play. Another similarity is that Claudius and Laertes conspire together to kill Hamlet. In both the movie and the play, Claudius poisons the drink Hamlet is supposed to drink, and Laertes poisons the sword he uses to injure Hamlet. It is made known in the movie that Claudius and Laertes conspire together when Laertes yells out that the King is to blame. The same lines are also used in the play. Laertes yells out, “Thy mother’s poisoned. I can no more. The King, the King’s to blame”
Hamlet and Lion King are the same and different in many differents ways. Some ways that they are the same is that. In hamlet the brother kills the king (Old Hamlet), and in Lion King scar kills his brother Mufasa. Some differences are that in the lion king it ended happy and in hamlet it didn't end good because hamlet died and his mother did to but he did get his revenge on his uncle. These are just some of the ways that they are.
The 1994 film The Lion King is a children’s movie by Disney directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff with the plot almost parallel to Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. The 2009 modern film Hamlet directed by Gregory Doran is a modernization of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. The 2009 film follows the play’s plot very close except for a reorder in some scenes while The Lion King has its characters based on characters in Hamlet. In The Lion King Mufasa is the king of the pride lands and similar to King Hamlet who is killed before the play starts. Both are killed by their brothers. Their ghosts play a role in inspiring Hamlet and Simba to take action and that the person who should be on the throne is them. The
Shakespeare's popular play Hamlet is about the Danish royal family in Elsinore, Denmark around the late middle ages. This is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, and has inspired many retellings. One such retelling is John Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius. Updike’s novel is told from Gertrude’s perspective, and this gives the reader an interesting look into the thoughts and feelings of such a mysterious character. Themes of shame and emotional distance are prevalent in both stories, but these themes are expressed differently in Hamlet and Gertrude and Claudius. Both works have similar negative tones and themes of shame and emotional distance; however, they are told from different points of view, they make readers feel completely different
Both fighting scenes are very dramatic, but this fight is not as intense. The fighting between Hamlet and Laertes does not drag out compared to the other film. Also Laertes is just wounded and dies. In the first film Laertes actually falls off of the balcony. The king in this d film doesn’t run away from Hamlet. The king cries out for help, but no one helps him. No helped the king, so he just gives up. The king willingly drinks the wine and dies. The king in both films was not guilty for the wrong he did. He had no choice but to die. In both films Hamlet dies at peace. Hamlet and Laetes makes a mend and forgive each other. Also in both films Hamlet tells Horatio not to kill himself. He wanted Horatio to live and tell his
The lion king was based off the popular play Hamlet, by Shakespeare. In Hamlet, Claudius murdered his brother to achieve the throne and become King of Denmark. In The Lion King, Scar murdered his brother to get the throne as well. Scar will always be known in history as a villain from Disney, to Tragedy of Hamlet. Scar is a scary looking character, had many evil motives, but also wasn't as strong as he thought.
Now we all know one of the biggest similarities would be that they both killed Simba and Hamlet’s father because they wanted the kingdom. They both ended up bringing down the kingdom when they were trying to take over. They both seemed jealous of their brothers and wanted everything that they had like power because they wanted somethings ran the way they wanted it to be ran how they felt it should be ran. They both wanted to kill their nephew to prevent them from being king. But there are some differences Scar confessed to killing his father while on the other hand Claudius didn’t tell Hamlet that he had killed his
Scar, as stated above, pushed Mufasa off the edge of a cliff as he clung on by his paws, while he was begging Scar to save him. Once Simba leaves the kingdom, Mufasa claims the throne as his own. Later, when Simba finds out that it was Scar who killed Mufasa, he is filled with fury and forces Scar to announce it to the rest of the kingdom, so everyone knows the real truth about their king. Claudius also kills his brother, King Hamlet, by pouring poison in his ear. Hamlet finds out this information when the ghost of his late father reveals to him that, “juice of cursed hebona in a vial / And in the porches of my ears did pour” (1.5.69-70). The ghost of King Hamlet reveals to Hamlet that Claudius was indeed the one responsible for his death, which enrages Hamlet, just as Simba felt enraged when he learned that Scar was responsible for Mufasa’s
Both Scar, from The Lion King and Claudius, from Hamlet, are brothers of the kind, murder their sibling to rise to the throne and take their brother's wife as their queen. As stated by the King, “ Now, Hamlet, hear: ‘Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark is by forged process of my death rankly abused; but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown” (Shakespeare, 34). It is not so much the characterizations of the characters but their actions that provide the proof of how Shakespearean literature inspires writers today. Claudius appears at first satisfied by his deeds, enjoying the life of a king, parading around his riches, marrying his own brother’s wife, and holding dinners in his own selfish honor. Scar celebrates his gains as well, allowing the evil henchmen-like hyenas to prowl the Pride Lands while he relaxes in the former King’s cave. Scar, like Claudius, exploits his power and accelerates his kingdom into war. Even though the two characters are so alike, the two seem to diverge. Claudius, in Hamlet, is seen repenting for his sins against his brother while Scar never doubts about his actions. Unlike Claudius, Scar admits “And now here’s my little secret. I killed Mufasa!” (The Lion King). Although the characters are so
The Lion King, a film of sorrow and revenge, focuses on the prince of the Pridelands, Simba. Simba, the son of Mufasa(King of the Pridelands), is a mischievous lion cub that gets caught in a stampede incident; which, results in the death of his father. He believes he is to blame for his father’s death, but he is not. Mufasa’s death is the work of Simba’s vile uncle, Scar. Since the making of this film, many people have compared this movie to the shakespearean tragedy, Hamlet. Though the two works share surface-level similarities in plot and characterization, when comparing themes and structure, The Lion King and Hamlet are fundamentally different.
Hamlet and Antigone both strongly followed in what they believed. There is a lot of death that is involved in both of these stories, which makes them very similar in many ways however that do have their differences as well. Hamlet and Antigone were both highly upset about the way that the death in their families was handled. In each play they both try to avenge the deaths. Their decision making process in avenging the death of their family members is not all that clear because they have to be careful about what they do.