Religion In The Lion King

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In a world where animals talk, magic exists and everything can be solved with a pinch of pixie dust where is the faith in a higher power? When looking thought Disney’s collection of movies, it is clear that there is always an outside force helping the main characters along in their journey. This force comes in many shapes from the wind in Pocahontas to the stars in The Lion King. These outside force help the characters to achieve their goals and face their fears. These forces are not always the Christian version of god; they are everything from talking trees, gargoyles, and animals. With this, we need to distinguish which movies represent what types of religion. Let us start with one of the easiest ones to identify, The Hunchback of Notre …show more content…

This is Esmeralda chases after Quasi to talk to him and find out more about him. They talk and she Esmeralda learns that Quasi in a nice person and just wants everyone to be happy. As this is, happening Frollo is in the hall of Justice and is lying about Esmeralda being a witch. It is at this point that a bible quote sticks out to me from proverbs 26:24-28, which states “Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.” This verse I believe represents Frollo as a man who lies to try to get what he wants and will eventually be the downfall of him. With this Frollo leads a raid on the court of miracles, which is where all the gypsys live. As Frollo arrests everyone and the next day has, Quasi chained to boulders and Esmeralda is at the stake about to be burned alive. Seeing this Quasi does something every similar to Samuel form the Bible. He breaks the stones and

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