Analyzing The Lion KingThrough a Marxist lens and a Feminist lens, we can be enlightened and critical of a major film of our childhood—a film that conditions/forces Americans to think certain things/ways, right?

Lion King under a Marxist and Feminist Lens

Lion King voices Three hyenas = three

subjugated populations: Whoopi Goldberg as

Shenzi, Black woman Cheech Marin as

Banzai, Hispanic man Jim Cummings is the

voice of Ed, the “insane man”

James Earl Jones is Mufasa, though… Mufasa is supposed to be the

white, big, strong, studly, cool, jock-like, brawn-over-brains, capitalistic leader.

A critic would “get around” Jones’s blackness by saying that “Jones sounds ‘white’ though” according to what American society has deemed “white-sounding.” This is said often about President Obama. (white = smart)