Hamlet and Lion King
Hamlet and The Lion King can be compared and contrasted in many ways. For example, the characters in both reflect the lives of each other, both have the death of two fathers, and both have the betrayal of family which make these similar stories. Hamlet is written in a more difficult style of writing than The Lion King which makes it difficult to understand by the modern reader at times. However, The Lion King portrays themes of betrayal in a way that students and even children may understand.
The characters in Hamlet reflect the characters in The Lion King.
Hamlet and Simba are both princes that were born into royalty. Both also had his father, the great king, murdered by the jealous brother. A difference between the two main characters is that Hamlet dies in the tragedy,
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and Simba lives. Ophelia and Nala were both the lovers of the prince, but were very confused about what was going on making them the most innocent of all of the characters.. Two differences between Ophelia and Nala are that Ophelia loses her mind and then drowns making Hamlet more devastated because he had already lost his father, whereas, Nala lives happily with Simba. Polonius is the sneaky one that always gets in everyone’s business reminding people of Rafiki. The Hyenas have a quick temper, like Laertes, and let the bad king influence them to kill the prince. Claudius and Scar are the murderers. Claudius murders Old Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear, while Scar throws Mufasa off a cliff into the stampede of African wildebeest. Timon and Pumbaa are always together just like Guildenstern and Rosencrantz. The two take the prince away to another land. In The Lion King, Timon and Pumbaa take Simba to a paradise-like place in the middle of the desert after Simba ran away to nourish him back to health. However, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz take Hamlet off to England to be killed. In both stories, death occurs and decay follows. In the play Hamlet, Claudius killed Old Hamlet so he could become king. One night as Hamlet was walking through the palace, Old Hamlet’s ghost appeared telling Hamlet that his body could not rest until his murder was avenged (Hamlet 36). Hamlet then set out a plan to kill his uncle Claudius for murdering his father. In The Lion King, Scar killed Mufasa by prying his paws off a cliff to fall to his death into a stampede. After Mufasa’s death, the kingdom decays. Near the end of the movie, Simba realizes that Scar murdered Mufasa and planned to kill him the same way. Simba then fights back just as Hamlet did in the play. Simba also saw Mufasa in the night like Hamlet saw his father to say he had been murdered (Hamlet 36). After Hamlet saw Old Hamlet, it started the death, disease, and decay theme of the tragedy. Similarly, in The Lion King following Mufasa’s death, Simba suffers as Hamlet did following Old Hamlet’s death. Old Hamlet and Mufasa are both murdered and betrayed by family.
Claudius was Old Hamlet’s brother that seemed quite jealous of him being king. Claudius then poured poison into Old Hamlet’s ear. Claudius kept this a secret until Hamlet figured it out through a long and trying time. In both stories, not only does a brother betray his brother, he also betrays his brother’s son. Claudius ended up trying to murder Hamlet, just as Scar, Mufasa’s brother, did Simba. After Claudius ordered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet to be murdered in England, Hamlet switches the letter of death with one he wrote to save his life. Hamlet traveled back to Denmark to kill his Uncle Claudius and finds out that the love of his life, Ophelia, drowned. In The Lion King, Nala, Simba’s love, grows up with him and ends up living happily ever after unlike the Tragedy of Hamlet. Another similarity of the two is that both Simba’s and Hamlet’s mother is poisoned by the murderer of the king. Simba lives on to fulfill his rightful place as king. As for Hamlet, he is poisoned by a sword. “Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet Prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” (Hamlet
176). Hamlet and The Lion King have many similarities and differences. The Lion King portrays a happy ending and a new beginning. Hamlet ended with sorrow and death of many innocent and impure people. The Lion King makes Hamlet easier to understand the concepts of what Shakespeare is trying to tell the audience. Even though the two are slightly different, they still have the same themes.
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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
No story is entirely original. Authors, playwrights, and songwriters all pick and choose elements from stories regardless of whether they intend to or not. Some stories mirror those of the past more similarly than others while adding a fresh, new twist. The Disney movie The Lion King contains many similarities to Shakespeare's play Hamlet, some of which are more obvious than others. Similarities in the character complexes of the three hyenas and Polonius's family, betrayal from Scar and Claudius, and the kingdoms deterioration and resolution are a few examples of the likenesses of the movie and play.
The main characters in both The Lion King and Hamlet are perceived in the same way by the audience as they share many of the same character traits and personalities. The original
William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is the dramatic story of a son who felt betrayed by both his mother, and the woman that he loved. Written in the Elizabethan era, around 1600, “Shakespeare's focus on Hamlet's intellectual conflicts was a significant departure from contemporary revenge tragedies… which tended to dramatize violent acts graphically on stage” (Hamlet). The play depicts Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, who it visited by the ghost of his father, King Hamlet. The ghost reveals how he was murdered by his brother Claudius, who then claimed the title of King, and married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Hamlet vows to avenge his father’s untimely death. Hamlet is in love with Ophelia, but her brother, Laertes, and father, Polonius, warn her that Hamlet can never really love her. Ophelia, following her father’s wishes, is unwittingly enlisted to spy on Hamlet, which leaves him feeling betrayed. Hamlet rejects Ophelia, accidently stabs and kills Polonius, and then hides the body. Ophelia becomes so distraught over her father’s death, that she ultimately drowns herself. Hamlet is devastated when he learns of Ophelia’s death. The play culminates with a sword fight between Hamlet and Laertes. Hamlet’s mother dies from inadvertently drinking poisoned wine that was intended to kill Hamlet. Laertes and Hamlet are both stabbed with a poison-tipped sword, but before dying, Laertes confesses that Claudius was the mastermind behind everything. Hamlet forces Claudius to also drink the wine and the irony is that everyone dies in the end. One of the most controversial topics in history is the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet’s letters express his sincere feelings, and reveal that he was very much in love with Ophe...
Mabillard writes the differences on their personalities, “Hamlet is a scholar and a philosopher, searching for life 's most elusive answers. He cares nothing for this "mortal coil" and the vices to which man has become slave. Gertrude is shallow, and thinks only about her body and external pleasures. Like
The two stories had similar plots and characters. But in the end, the small differences in how the characters acted separated the tragedy of Hamlet from the happy ending of Disney’s The Lion King.
Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a story about a king that was murdered by his brother and the prince has been asked by his father?s ghost to avenge his murder. The original story line has been altered a few times since it has been written. The original Hamlet the play and the altered Hamlet the movie are shown differently in many different ways. Hamlet the movie with Mel Gibson shows different things than the play, but there are three major differences between the two. The three major differences are in the way both of the productions start out, differences in the scene that the players put on a play, and differences in the way the productions end.
It is said that Shakespeare wrote plays, not scripts. His work was meant to be read aloud and not just read. This became apparent while I watching the BBC 's 2009 version of Hamlet. I choose this version because the director Gregory Doran put a modern twist on the classic tale. The director’s display of contemporary technology, dress, and presentation of relationships enhanced the idea that Hamlet’s madness was simply a dramatic act.
The major foil for Hamlet is Laertes, the son of Polonius. The most obvious similarity is that they are both young men. They also come from relatively similar backgrounds, a Danish aristocratic upbringing. They also both have some college education. This leads us to another similarity; [Semicolons vs. colons] they both have the ability to use logical and rational reasoning. However, they do differ on their applications of logical reasoning.
King Hamlet and Hamlet compare in that they are both upset by the Queen’s marriage, they both hate Claudius, they are both brave, and they are both dead by the end of the play. They contrast in that while Hamlet’s father was king, Hamlet will never have the kingship, Hamlet does not leave a legacy and they die differently. Hamlet looked up to his father because he felt that he was a great leader and the bravest man that he knew, as Hamlet mentioned, "so excellent a king” (I. ii.149). He wanted to be so much like him, but couldn't because of a couple of barriers that he had to deal with. He became a lot like his father in the end. Hamlet was very disappointed with his life because he knew that becoming king was one thing that he didn't have in common with his father, because his stepfather was king, “married with my uncle, my father's brother" (I. ii.
In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the importance of characters Laertes and Fortinbras have been an issue that's discussed and analyzed by many literary critics. Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras are parallel characters in the play. Laertes and Fortinbras are often use by Shakespeare to compare the actions and emotions of Hamlet throughout the play. "They are also important in Hamlet as they are imperative to the plot of the play and the final resolution" (Nardo, 88). Shakespeare placed these three men: Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras into similar circumstances, which is, to avenge for their fathers' deaths. The main difference between the three is the way that each of them comes to grief of their fathers' deaths and the way they planned their vengeance.
The relationship between Hamlet and Claudius is problematic, largely due to the fact that they both wish death upon the other. For instance, they view each other as a threat, which is a foreboding sign within a royal family. When Hamlet learns that his father was murdered by his own uncle - Claudius, Hamlet vows to avenge his father’s death by killing Claudius when he is told, “But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (1.5.38-40). In other words, the ghost of Old King Hamlet informs Hamlet that Claudius has murdered him. He compares Claudius to a serpent, a large deadly
Nature versus nurture is a common sociological theory that has the ability to be used on anyone. Nature means the way someone was born or their genes, and nurture is someone’s environment. People argue which affects a person more. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, there have been numerous arguments saying that his uncle Claudius is actually his father due to their similarities. With the argument of nature versus nurture one can argue that they act so much alike because Hamlet’s environment growing up was being around Claudius. By looking at both Hamlet and Claudius’; inaction/action, plots to murder one another, their diction, their relationships with Gertrude, the way they treat women and their advisors, it proves that Claudius is not Hamlet’s father.
The Shakespearean playwrights Macbeth and Hamlet are both very well-known tragedies. They have many things in common but are different in some ways. Both plays involve greed but the characters are different. There are some characters that have the same qualities such as Hamlet and Malcolm who both killed for revenge. Macbeth and Hamlet are different in character even though they both killed. The tragedies are the same in that many people are killed but the reasons are very different. Macbeths need for power has caused him to lose control while Hamlets need for revenge causes him to lose his own life.