The Importance of Being Afraid of Your Culture

In the movie, simba is raised by muggles instead of being inside the magic kingdom. The idea is that you can't help but be alienated from your culture because it's got a tyrannical element and isn't matched well to you. It's also partly a story of the emergence of adolescence. When you're a child and you're ensconced right inside the familial framework, then you sort of exist within that system of rules. But when you become an adolescent, then there's much more of a proclivity to break and to start breaking rules.