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In what way is The Lion King similar to Hamlet ? Our money is on the talking baboons, dispensing wisdom and songs about bananas. ...What do you mean there's no talking baboon in Hamlet ? Why even write the story??

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Thank you We sneak Shakespeare's hamlet The lion king Alas

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In what ways is the lion king Similar The hamlet

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So when the classic examples is the lion king right

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There's this evil conniving brother that's responsible for for his

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brother the rightful king's death So simple Here is hamlin

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Move fossa is older hamlet scar is claudius But of

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course And that one the ambiguity about whether claudius is

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actually an okay person is totally lighter Scar's definitely not

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okay also in in the movie because it's because it's

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not a tragedy you know symbols survives and gets married

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right So the who would be the ophelia character actually

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survives and convinces him to come back and actually does

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have agency Whereas in this play the female partner to

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the sun definitely doesn't When we as an audience encounter

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the ghost of king hamlet in hamlet we like him

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would have no way of knowing whether it's true whereas

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in the lion king when we've crossed it comes back

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and does that weird thing with the stars and it's

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like i am this godly figure that will tell you

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what to do you like just implicitly trust him wears

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in the play it's like it's not clear that this

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is actually good guidance It's not clear that he's actually

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could dude even if it is really his ghost Lots

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of levels there In what ways is the lion king 00:01:35.028 --> [endTime] Similar The hamlet

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