In the movie Hamlet, at a point Hamlet became depressed because of a series of reasons. Most of it was because his mother remarried after his father died. In the Lion King, Simba was depressed for some time because his father died. In both of these stories both characters father’s die. And they are both depressed over family-related situations. What was different was Simba got over his dad dying or at least didn’t show it , but Hamlet was upset for a long time. Another similarity is that Simba doesn’t like his uncle Mufasa and Hamlet doesn’t like his uncle either. They both wanted bad things to happen to them and they both fought some way with their uncles.
What surprised me is how similar these two stories are. Obviously there are a few different things, but overall there’s a lot of similarities. I never realized that Simba and Hamlet were almost the same. And in the Lion King, I couldn’t really tell if Simba was over his sadness of his father dying, but now that I see the stories side by side I realize it now. One thing that I also realized is that Hamlet is a play and the Lion King is a movie. But Hamlet was a more stronger story than the Lion King. Even though Hamlet was only a play.
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