While the other three movies that I watch were all based solely on the Shakespearean plays they resemble, the Lion King has multiple pulls from classic stories. One of my earliest memories of watching the Lion King was watching it at church and then having it explained to me how the movie reflected the biblical story of Moses. Moses fled from Egypt after he accidentally killed a slave overseer, he was later visited by God who spoke to him from a burning bush and told him to go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to free all the Jews. This is similar to the Lion King because Simba caused Mufasa's death and then ran away after because he was ashamed. He is visited by Rafiki and then the spirit of his father in the sky who tell him he needs to return home to save his people. A main difference here is that while Moses wanted to take the Jews away from Egypt, Simba wanted to make the hyenas and Scar leave Pride Rock. The way that the writers of the Lion King; Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton were able to weave together the stories of Moses and Hamlet together to create the Lion King is incredible. It allowed to the story to take the best of both worlds to make an entertaining and timeless story that met the moral standards of a children's movie. The authors could omit the periods of suicidal depression in Hamlet and the killing of thousands of first born sons in the story of Moses and instead highlight honor, freedom, duty, and family. This is what allowed for a Shakespearean tragedy such as Hamlet to be accessible to younger people.