Simba (King Lion)

Simba is a character of Lion and the hero of a succession of cartoons of the studios Disney the King Lion, the King Lion 2: Honor of the tribe and the King Lion 3: Hakuna Matata.

He is the son of Mufasa and Sarabi, the companion of Nala and father of Kiara. Its name means “lion” in Swahili.

This character is of course in the center of the Musical comedy the King Lion inspired by films. Its history was developed, apart from that of the feature films of Disney, through many books for children, particularly in a series of pounds entitled: The King Lion: Six New Adventures , in which it has a son named Kopa (“heart” in of Swahili). Simba also makes appearances in the Televised series: Tiller and Pumbaa , like in the video games: Kingdom Hearts & Kingdom Hearts II .

Interpreters of Simba

Simba and Hamlet

A source of inspiration assumed by the Disney studios for the creation of the character of Simba is that of Hamlet of Shakespeare.

The two intrigues have a Méchant assoiffé of being able which assassinates his/her brother to take the throne. It exiles then its nephew and tries to destroy it. It belongs to the prince then, in prey with conflicts interior emotive and intellectual, to recover what is legitimate for him.

An important example of the similarity of the stories is the role of the appearance of the father deceased. In both cases, it is the phantom of the father who succeeds in putting his hesitant son in the action. Mufasa called to Simba:

You cuts forgotten me. You cuts forgotten who you are and so cuts forgotten me. Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you cuts become. You must take your place in the Circle off Life. Remember who you are, you are my its and the one true king. Remember who you are, remember, remember.

(You forgot me. You forgot me while forgetting who you was. Look in you, Simba. You are better than what you became. You must take again your place in the cycle of the life. Do not forget which you are, you are my son and it is you the king. Do not forget which you are, do not forget, do not forget.)

It is a Pastiche clearly words of the father of Hamlet:

natural Yew thou hast in thee, bear it not.

royal Let not the bed off Denmark Be

has couch for luxury and damned incest.

Goal, howsoever thou pursuest this act,

Taint not thy mind, NOR let thy drunk contrive

(...)

Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye! Remember me.

(If you are not denatured, that does not support: how the royal bed of Denmark is not the layer of the lust and the damné inceste! But, whatever the way in which you continue this action, that your spirit remains pure, that your heart abstains from any hostile project (...) Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye! Remember me.)

The similarity of characters of both Héros is also manifest. For Hamlet and Simba, only surviving wire of the assassinated kings, it is of their responsibility unhappy to cure the vilainie their usurping uncles. Simba is exiled Earth of the lions, and Hamlet is exiled Denmark towards the England. By this exile, both avoid being destroyed by their uncles. Both wonder themselves about the route to follow. With knowing if it is necessary to act to escape their difficult situation, or to resign itself. Hamlet considers the suicide in famous the Monolog:

To Be, gold not to Be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows off outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against has off sea turbid,

And by opposing end them?

(To be, or not to be, it is the question there: Is there more nobility of heart to undergo the sling and the arrows of fortune outrageante, or to be armed against a sea with pains and to stop it by a revolt?)
Simba, on its side, must decide if it must or not continue to live in the forest, out of its kingdom (in which one believes it dead). It has even its own mini-mini-monolog parallel with that of Hamlet, in which it says: :

I canet go back. What would it prove, anyway? You canet changes the past.

(I cannot retrogress. In any case, what would that prove? One cannot change the past.)
In the final analysis, Simba and Hamlet overcome their doubts and face their fears.

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