irby was simba's mother's name in the lion king.
irby was simba's mother's name in the lion king.
simba's mother's name in the lion king?
irby
the story is set in a kingdom of anthropomorphic animals in africa known as the pride lands, where a lion rules over the other animals as king. "the lion king" begins when rafiki, a mandrill, anoints simba, the newborn son of king mufasa and queen sarabi, presenting him to a gathering of animals at the pride rock. simba is next seen as a young cub, with mufasa teaching him about the "circle of life". simba's uncle and mufasa's brother scar plots to take the throne for himself and tells simba about an elephant graveyard, a place where mufasa has warned simba not to go. when simba and his best friend nala sneak off to the elephant graveyard, shenzi, banzai and ed, three hyenas aligned with scar, attack and try to kill the two cubs, but they are stopped by mufasa. scar's next plan is to lure simba into a gorge while the hyenas create a wildebeest stampede. alerted by scar, mufasa races to rescue simba from the stampede. he saves his son but is left clinging to the edge of a cliff, which results in scar flinging him into the stampede below and killing him. scar then tricks simba into thinking that he is responsible for his father's death and tells him to run away, only to later order the hyenas to kill simba, but they fail. scar informs the pride that both mufasa and simba were killed and that he is assuming the throne as the next in line. simba is later found unconscious by timon and pumbaa, who adopt and raise him. it is not until simba is a young adult lion that he meets nala again, and the two lions fall in love. along with rafiki and mufasa's ghost, nala convinces simba to return to the pride lands and claim the throne. simba, along with nala, timon, and pumbaa go to the pride rock, where simba confronts, fights, and defeats scar, who is later betrayed and killed by his own army of hyenas as a result of scar's blaming of the hyenas for mufasa's death. the film concludes with the pride lands turning green with life again and rafiki presenting simba and nala's newborn cub.
the lion king (franchise)
film critic james berardinelli identified nala as "the lion king"'s "sole significant female character." including nala, "the lion king" has only three major female characters in comparison to the film's total of nine male ones. shepherd university's emmylou allen observed that nala is introduced "as a dominating young girl" who ultimately matures into "a strong woman" by the film's conclusion. "mouse morality: the rhetoric of disney animated film" author annalee r. ward wrote that nala's role in "the lion king" reflected "a 1990s feminist reversal". in her book "biblical allusions", author lindsay bacher acknowledged that nala is often depicted as a stronger and more responsible character than simba, despite observations that "the lion king"'s female characters lack agency. leab identified nala as simba's "equal" who is "a more naturally sound leader throughout the film, while simba tends to be comparatively a bit more immature and in need of multiple characters propelling him into responsible/rightful action." nala is also a more skilled fighter than simba, proven by the character's ability to overwhelm him in battle, which is reminiscent "of the physical power of lionesses in the real nature." however, as strong as she is, nala has little impact elsewhere; author brian k. pennington wrote in his book "teaching religion and violence" that "nala's assertions of gender equality are clearly groundless, since only a male lion can stop scar." "new york"'s david denbey dismissed nala's athleticism as nothing more than disney's attempt to "disguise [the film's] essential boss-daddy ethos." bacher believes that had "the lion king" featured nala as the pride lands' hero as opposed to simba, the film could have avoided having a "patriarchal structure." leab concluded that "the main and most problematic aspects of the film" remain that "the lion king" "boils down to the fact that an entire group of strong female characters are unable to confront a single male oppressor; to do so, they need to be led by a dominant male." leab continued, "it almost sucks more that nala is such a strong ... female character and still ends up constrained by this plot device", accusing the film of depicting women as weak.
nala (the lion king)