Ideology and Hidden Morality in The Lion King

Abstract

Ideology is defined as the way of thinking and thoughts of a certain individuals, society , or culture. Further, it refers to theories and intended aims that form a sociopolitical program. The term ideology was originally coined by the French writer and sociologist , Antoine Destutt de Tracy, in the period between 1796 and 1798. In order to truly understand any human community , first, one have to understand the cultural ideas and the way this community stick to. Since a film mirrors a certain culture of a particular nation, there is a close connection between the film and implied ideological thoughts to prevail an intended potential culture . In any film, ideological beliefs, concepts, and notions can be universally pervasive by being disguised in entertainment. A Filmmaker, like a storytelling , is capable of not only conveying or reflecting reality, but also reconstructing and portraying new pictures of reality by ways of conventions, or codes of other cultures. Thus, through ideology, conflicting systems, struggling for a cultural dominance on the Third World as it is reflected in Disney's The Lion King movie(1994).