Similarities Between The Lion King And A Christmas Carol

The book, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is the originally book where the ideas came from. But, comparing to the movie “The Lion King” there are many ways that they are the same and many ways that they are different. Scrooge has seen the first ghost “the ghost of christmas past” and the ghost had taken Scrooge to his his past. Scrooge saw many scenes but after all the important scenes were shown to Scrooge the ghost took Scrooge back to the present. Shortly after, in his room was another ghost, except this one was surrounded by food and clothed in a long green robe. The second ghost was “the ghost of christmas present”. “It was clothed in one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its captious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any article”(Dickens,
In the “The Lion King” Simba, the main character, didn’t realize that his future would affect his decisions that he made in the past, so he tries to go back and fix it but he can’t. Also a childhood friend of Simba shows him what is happening in the future and how bad it is. In A Christmas Carol the ghosts take him back to his past and lets him see what he is doing wrong and help him fix it for the future. For both “The Lion King”, and A Christmas Carol the choice of remembering the past and feelings after in the present helped the stories finish with a strong ending of them forgiving anyone they hurt or living up to their potential positively. The second ghost has already come and showed Scrooge the present and how joyful everyone is and how depressed and saddened Scrooge is. Scrooge wanted the ghost madness to be over but soon enough the next ghost had come. The ghost arrived with Scrooge he was “the ghost of christmas