They are the hero, death & rebirth of the hero, and the symbolism and associations of water vs.. The Lion King has a very evident hero, Simba.. When the film returns to Simba, he soon de
Trang 1John BerryEdwardsPer 24/18/96 The Lion King is a story
containing many archetypes Archetypes are patterns or models of
literature that reoccur in many stories In this paper I will discuss three of these archetypes They are the hero, death & rebirth of the hero, and the symbolism and associations of water vs desert These archetypes can
be noticed easily and help things come together The Lion King has
a very evident hero, Simba Simba meets many of the characteristics of
an archetypal hero Among these is the way that he is taken away from his home, the Pridelands, and grows up with Timon and Pumbaa After Simba arrives with Timon and Pumbaa, we see very little of his life until
he is fully grown When the film returns to Simba, he soon decides to return to Pride Rock and face his past He returns to save his kingdom from its desolation caused by Scar and the hyenas, and to restore it to its glory The hero of a story commonly goes through some of these events
Simba faces a common archetypal situation, death and rebirth Although Simba never physically dies, in spirit he does die The spiritual death of Simba is when he runs away from the Pridelands into the desert Everyone in the Pridelands thinks that he has physically died In fact, he nearly does die in the desert Luckily, Timon and Pumbaa find him and keep him alive The spiritual resurrection of Simba occurs when he returns to his home at Pride Rock Everyone discovers that Simba is alive It seems as if he has risen from the dead to them because for such
a long time they believed that he was dead At Pride Rock, Simba
returns to his previous life and faces all of his problems The
symbolism of water and desert in the Lion King is very important Water often accompanies a change in a story Water can also be a sign of birth and rebirth An example of water foretelling a change is Simba's lie when
he says that he and Nala are going to the water hole They actually visit the Elephant Graveyards This visit causes Simba to get a view of reality, not from his sheltered world When Simba is found by Timon and
Pumbaa in the desert, they splash him with water to bring life back into him Another example of the symbolism of water is the rain when Simba defeats Scar and assumes his position on the throne of Pride Rock The rain symbolizes the rebirth of the Pridelands They go from the
desolation that Scar brings to the prosperity that comes with Simba On the other hand, the desert is symbolic for spiritual defilement and
desiccation This occurs on Simba's flight from the Pridelands He loses his spirit, and spiritually dies There is many cases of archetypes of characters, situations, and symbolism and associations in the Lion King This paper discussed several of them They included the heroic qualities
of Simba, the spiritual death and rebirth of Simba, and the associations of water and the desert in the story These archetypes are very important to the story and help give the viewer a better understanding