Scar As Depicted In The Lion King

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

Simba to be in the middle of the whole thing. Simba survives the whole stampede. His uncle blames Mufasa’s death on Simba and tells him he should escape and never come back. The hyenas were chasing him, but eventually Simba got away. At this point, he runs into Timon and Pumba. Timon, Pumba, and Simba live together in their own paradise and live by their own motto. Their motto is hakuna matata or in other words no worries. As the time passes, Simba has come to terms with his father’s passing and he encounters one of his friends. Nala tries to convince Simba to come home with her because Scar was not being a good king. Under his rule, none of the animals had food. She found help from the baboon Rafiki. He helped convince Simba to return to his home, Pride Rock. He challenges his uncle and defeats him. Simba returns as the rightful king of Pride Rock.
In The Lion King, there is a huge focus on who is in power.

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

Pride Rock anymore. The community liked the democracy better than the communism. Mufasa’s ruling represents a representative government and Scar’s is a dictatorship. To me Mufasa is essentially a president that pays close attention to his community. He wants to help them with anything he can.
I think that The Lion King is a great example of how there is only a handful of people who have control in their society. The majority of people do not have power. In this situation, there is only one animal that can be king at once. In order to compare the United States democracy to The Lion King government, it can become diffic