“Don’t get too close it’s dark inside that’s where my demons hide”. In the book Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet portrays a broken person who struggles with his inner demons. The Lion King portrays Shakespeare's work really well by showing Simba’s internal struggles and the fight of just trying to get by.
The turning point of Simba as a character is when his father is killed. We know this is the turning point because he runs away from his home thinking that his father's death was his fault. Simba is sad and angry at himself for “causing his father's death”. This scene of the movie closely relates to the turning point of Hamlet where he finds out that his Uncle Claudius was the cause of his father's death that he thought he couldn’t really trust anyone anymore, so he pushed everyone away from him, which could be seen as internally running away which closely relates to when Hamlet runs away, which shows that the movie The Lion King is closely related to Hamlet.
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At this point in the movie it can be seen that Simba had “ran far away enough” that the demons are no longer there, but they are there; He’s just figured out a way to put on that “mask” of being something he’s no and suppressing those thoughts down far enough that he no longer has that reminder of what he did. This is closely related to Hamlet in act II, scene III where he admires the player for his ability to become another person for a moment of time. In that scene, Hamlet is so mesmerized by the player that he is able to go “somewhere else” for a moment of time and forgets his problems for a small moment of