backwards madness macbeth essay
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The tragic play Macbeth and the Disney movie, The Loin King, on the surface, may not seem to have a lot in common. However, if one digs deep enough and looks for it, you can find striking parallels and similarities between the two works. At first glance, it is hard to think that a movie with an general audience under the age of 13 in mind could have very much in common with a Shakespearian play written all those centuries ago, but upon examining the characters, with a little thought, you can find parallels in the character and begin to assign Macbeth characters to certain Loin King characters.
The first, and easiest, person to draw a parallel from in the Lion King to Macbeth is Scar’s role. Scar is the king's brother, and therefore Simba's uncle. The character in the play to whom Scar can be linked to is obviously Macbeth himself. In the movie scar is motivated, like Macbeth in the play, by excessive ambition. That ambition leads them both down the path to doom by leading them to the murder of the rightful king, Scar killing his own brother Mufasa and Macbeth killing King Duncan. Mufasa can also be liked with another character in the play, Banquo, in that Scar murdered him with the help of hired thugs and kept the illusion of loyalty until the very end.
I found the Lion King to also be much like MacBeth, with Scar being MacBeth, Mufasa sharing the role of Banquo and King Duncan, and Simba sharing the role of MacDuff and Fleonce. Scar's mudering of Mufasa is obviously a direct murder like the murder of King Duncan, but the ATTEMPTED murder of Simba is pulled off by "hired thugs(hyenas)" just like the murder of Banquo from which Fleonce escaped. The Lion King simply compressed the timeline, as Fleonce did not return in MacBeth, but was left with the prophecy that he and/or his descendants would become kings. Also, another parallel was that the Shakespearean audience would have believed in a concept known as the "great chain of being," (or, as Disney calls it in this movie, the "Circle of Life,") by which if the natural order were disrupted, chaos would ensue. This is apparent in MacBeth with the line that refers to horses eating each other, and with the Lion King in the hyenas' taking over of the Pridelands. Be it MacBeth, Hamlet, or whatever, it is obvious that this movie took much of its philosophical standpoint from Shakespeare.
