HTRLLAP Chapter 6

           The work that I'm most familiar with that famously alludes to Shakespeare is The Lion King (not a literary work, I know, but good none the less). Disney writers allude to Hamlet in many ways. Mufasa is killed by his jerk brother Scar to gain power, and Hamlet Sr. is axed by Claudius for the same reason. Then, Claudius/Scar convince Hamlet/Simba that everything is their fault, and drive them to run away and eventually find friends in unlikely places. Then of course the hero Hamlet/Simba come back and kill their evil uncles to gain the power that is rightfully theirs. This theme of the hero triumphing against all odds is common in other works too, such as The Hunger Games, but is most closely related in Disney's The Lion King.