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Hamlet VS. The Lion King

Famous playwright, William Shakespeare, has written many plays that have been made into movies, but only one has undergone the process of “disneyfication” (to put in your words, Mr. Klaus). This, one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, has now become what can be argued as the best loved animated film of all time. The play is Hamlet, and the movie, created almost four hundred years later, is The Lion King. To understand the process by which Disney transferred the play based in Demark to the African wilderness set film, we must first become familiar with the characters and plots of both works.
Hamlet begins after King Hamlet’s death. His son, Prince Hamlet, develops a mindset of revenge, but is unsure of how to react. He becomes depressed and wanders around fatherless and confused, while his uncle, Claudius, accepts the throne and marries his widowed mother. Although Hamlet believes that his father was murdered by Claudius, he remains uncertain until a ghostly apparition of his ...

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