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Comparing Ambition in Hamlet and The Lion King

This document compares and contrasts the characters and plots of The Lion King and Shakespeare's Hamlet. It notes some key similarities, such as both works featuring a prince whose father is killed by his uncle who then takes the throne. However, it also outlines important differences, such as Hamlet dealing with more death and darker themes overall compared to The Lion King having a happier resolution. The document then analyzes Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy and discusses the themes of ambition and power in relation to the works.

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Comparing Ambition in Hamlet and The Lion King

This document compares and contrasts the characters and plots of The Lion King and Shakespeare's Hamlet. It notes some key similarities, such as both works featuring a prince whose father is killed by his uncle who then takes the throne. However, it also outlines important differences, such as Hamlet dealing with more death and darker themes overall compared to The Lion King having a happier resolution. The document then analyzes Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy and discusses the themes of ambition and power in relation to the works.

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SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCES
In The Lion King, Simba has an evil uncle Simba is a young child when his father dies,
named Scar. Scar is jealous of his brother, whereas Hamlet is a Young adult.
Mufasa, and wants to be the king instead.
Scar ultimately kills his brother to get what he
wants. Hamlet also has an uncle, Claudius.
At the beginning of the play, Claudius
becomes king possibly by killing his brother.

Simba is the main character in The Lion King. Simba is sad when his father dies, but spends
he is the son of Mufasa, the king of the lions, most of his time growing up in a happy lifestyle
which makes Simba a prince. Hamlet, from with Timon and Pumba. Hamlet, on the other
Shakespeare's play, Prince of Denmark is the hand, is depressed and suicidal for most of his
son of the dead King Hamlet, which makes story.
him a prince too. Both princes are only sons
and have no siblings.

Both King Mufasa and King Hamlet die. In The Lion King, only two characters, Mufasa
Mufasa is murdered by his brother, in the and Scar, die. The rest live happily after the
case of Hamlet, the events are confusing. circle of life is restored by the right king. Simba
Most interpretations assume the ghost is real even rebuilds his life and has a baby with Nala.
and that his father was murdered, but it is In Hamlet, most of the characters, including the
never definitively solved. main ones die.

Simba is convinced by Scar to flee after his Simba’s mother, Sarabi, and Scar do not get
father's murder and spends a long time married after Mufasa's death. Hamlet’s uncle
growing up with Timon and Pumba in exile. does marry Hamlet's mother.
Claudius also convinces Hamlet to leave and
travel to England, where he survives to other
conflicts brought along

ANALYSIS TO BE OR NOT TO BE:


What Hamlet is considering on is between the agony of life, which he sees as inevitable and the fear
of the uncertainty of death and of possible damnation of suicide..

Hamlet's dilema is that in spite of the fact that he is disappointed with life and names its many
torments, he is uncertain what death may bring (the fear of something after death). He can't be
certain what death has coming up; it might be rest perchance to dream he is speculating that it is
perhaps an experience worse than life. Dying is known as the undiscover nation from which no
explorer returns. In saying that Hamlet is recognizing that, not only does each living person
discover death for themselves, as no one can return from it to describe it, but also that suicide is a
one-way ticket. If you get the judgment call wrong, there's no way back. In you get it wrong, there's
no chance to get back. The speech
fluctuates between 'life is terrible, however demise may be more regrettable'.

I have chosen AMBITION and POWER because I think they relate.


Ambition is the desire to achieve something, followed by motivation and determination.
Ambition describes those that achieve success based on their inner desire to do so and their belief
in themselves. Power for me is the hability some people get of having influence from one person, to
a big mass. Power can be used for good or for bad, the problema, is that combined with ambition
can end up on a real catastrophe! A great example for this getting out of the Lion King and Hamlet is
Hitler.

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