Archetypal Images

[BreakABone]

I know half of you probabbly have no idea what the hell the subject is about, but the better to educate you I guess.

Anyhow I was discussing Hamlet with Kitana on AIM (It came up because she asked if I had hwork over my Mid-Winter recess), and I pointed out the smiliarities between the play Hamlet by William ShakeSpeare and the Disney movie The Lion King. Here are some of them:

-They both deal with Royal Families (The King of the Jungle and of Denmark)
-The story both has the former King being killed by some plot of his evil brother (In Hamlet we never see it but are told and in Lion King we are able to witness it)
-The Prince is in some way or another exiled (Hamlet is set to England and Simba chased into the wilderness)
-They both have love interest (Opehlia and nalie (Think dat was her name))
-They really only have few close friends (Horatio for Hamlet and Timon and Pumba for Simba)
-Their dead father appears to them in the form of a ghost/spirit
-Their evil uncles ascend to position of power as King
-They both avenge their fathers death

Ofcourse Lion King was a kid's movie so Simba didn't die nor did Scar end up sleeping with Simba's mother..

other than that they are very similar.. Anyone else know stories like that?