The Biggest Influence on The Lion King - Hamlet or the Epic of Son-Jara?

Lion King is the most successful film in Disney so far. Many people think that Lion King is Disney 's only original movie; this is the only fairy tale that did not originate from a country. In fact, Lion King is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Disney writers hide the basic character prototypes and simple stories in the story of African cute kids. William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", on the other hand, is based on the epic of Son-Jara or Sundiata. Discussion was based on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" or West African story "Epic of Jerry's son".

Rather than telling the oral tradition of fables and jario, it is impossible to study the epic of Jarra, the son of the Lion King of the Mary Empire. Griots (also known as Mali's Jalis) is a historian of this oral culture. Today, Mary, Gambia, and the story of Jara, the son of the West Coast of Africa, has been spoken for over 700 years. Because Gurio remembers the story of a male relative (usually a father and a son), the personal difference also occurs in the spelling of hero's name. To increase confusion, some genetic titles like Lion King replaced the name of Son Jara in certain parts of the story, and assumed that viewers can follow the name change.

The epic of Sundiata is the story of West Africa who talks about the rise of Mari's biggest king, Sundiata (Son-Jara). In this epic episode, Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate begins to tell the story of his son Shadi's humiliating childhood, and stepmother Sassouma. Continuous conflict between brother Dankaran Tuma and the great wizard Soumaoro, and his later hometown and later achievements for his people Sundiata. The Mali Empire was born from the place where was once the Ghana Empire. Mary is a state within the Ghana Empire (Goucher, 232). Ghana was the first empire in Western Europe in the 6th century BC (Goucher 231). Ghana is using a strategic position to tax northern desert nomads and southern gold producers (Goucher, 131). After the collapse of Ghana, the Mali Empire replaced its position and took power under the leadership of "Lion King" Sundiata.