MAN VS. SELF
Simba begins the movie as a rambunctious, spirited and confident young lion, looking to inherit his father's kingdom. Simba has no worries or fears, and his ego controls him. When Scar tells him about the elephant graveyard, Simba is far too curious and proud to let it go unexplored. However after Mufasa is killed in the stampede, and Simba believes it to be his fault, he loses all confidence and is constantly battling internally against "the king [nala] see[s] inside" and the carefree, and disconnected lion that he has become with Timone and Pumba. He is finally able to overcome his fear of returning to Pride Rock and facing his past when he has an internal discussion with the memory of his father (projected as a vision in the storm clouds).
THE LION KING
Hamlet begins the play as a well educated, powerful future monarch in immense grief after his father's murder. He is constantly struggling with his feelings, and is indecisive when it comes to avenging his father. Hamlet has many long soliloquys in which he reveals his inner conflict, namely "To be, or not to be", the most famous soliloquy, in which Hamlet reasons within himself, whether he is better off killing himself than facing Polonius. However, like Simba, he is eventually pulled from his melancholy fog by his uncle's non-verbal admission of guilt of King Hamlet's murder, and he is empowered to get revenge for his father's death, and to reclaim his former persona of a spirited leader.