The Prince Of Egypt Moses ✯

What makes this opening so effective is the ignorance . Moses knows he was found in a basket, but he has buried that fact under layers of Egyptian gold. He is the ultimate privileged insider. When he jokes with Rameses about “a couple of slaves doing our work for us,” the irony is knife-sharp, but Moses doesn’t feel it. This is a man living a lie, and he is happy.

Moses, also known as Ramesses II or Ramses, was born to a Hebrew family during a time when the Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians. His parents, Amram and Yochabel, were from the tribe of Levi and were part of the Israelite community in Goshen, Egypt. To save Moses from the edict of Pharaoh Rameses I to kill all newborn Hebrew males, Yochabel placed him in a basket and set him afloat on the Nile River. the prince of egypt moses