The Hero's Journey in The Lion King
In this blog, I want to talk about how the Hero’s Journey is represented in Disney’s 1994 The Lion King. I wanted to write about the Hero’s Journey and how a Disney movie adapts to this template, and when I started to think about which Disney movie to choose, I realized that almost every Disney movie I thought of follows the Hero’s Journey template at least partially, but I thought The Lion King fit the template especially well. The Lion King is about a young lion named Simba who is next in line to become king after his father Mufasa. Simba’s uncle (and villain of the story), Scar, murders Mufasa and banishes Simba. Simba then meets two new friends: Pumba and Timone. He grows up with his new friends and eventually returns home to reclaim his throne from Scar. Since there are too many steps to discuss in detail, I will be highlighting the more important steps and how these steps relate to the movie. The first step, Call to Adventure, could be placed wi...