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This dissertation analyzes how The Prince of Egypt film depicts the story of Exodus compared to the biblical Book of Exodus. It will examine the film using narrative critique and socio-rhetorical interpretation to analyze the cultural, historical, and social references. The analysis focuses on how the film incorporates Egyptian society, culture, and history more accurately than the biblical story. It provides a synopsis of the film's plot, which follows Moses from being sent down the Nile River as a baby to discovering his true Hebrew identity and killing an Egyptian taskmaster before fleeing into the desert.

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Reaction Paper Prince of Egypt

This dissertation analyzes how The Prince of Egypt film depicts the story of Exodus compared to the biblical Book of Exodus. It will examine the film using narrative critique and socio-rhetorical interpretation to analyze the cultural, historical, and social references. The analysis focuses on how the film incorporates Egyptian society, culture, and history more accurately than the biblical story. It provides a synopsis of the film's plot, which follows Moses from being sent down the Nile River as a baby to discovering his true Hebrew identity and killing an Egyptian taskmaster before fleeing into the desert.

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Reaction Paper Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt does not reflect the Book of Exodus as correctly as it
represents the ancient Egyptian world, according to this dissertation. The following two
methodologies will be used to conduct this analysis. The first is narrative critique, which
examines how the story is put together in connection to how the author, or in the case of
a film, the authors and directors, wish to transmit their message to the audience.2 The
second way is socio rhetorical interpretation. This is the interpretation and study of a
narrative's implicit or explicit cultural, social, historical, and linguistic allusions.
Sociohistorical interpretation is made up of a variety of textures and sub-textures.
Because of the limited area available, the form of socio-rhetorical analysis that will be
applied is intertexture. Intertexture in cultural, social, historical, and oral-scribal contexts
will be examined in this article. The oral-scribal analysis will be investigated by taking
The Prince of Egypt as its own work with a screenplay and writers, as this last one is
difficult to look at for a cinema version of a text. Before moving on to the analysis, this
dissertation will begin with a synopsis of the film. It will finish with a discussion of how
the evidence offered demonstrates that The Prince of Egypt reflects ancient Egyptian
society, culture, and history better than the Book of Exodus. In its depiction of the
Exodus tale, The Prince of Egypt incorporates both conversation and musical pieces.
Beginning in ancient Egypt, the Hebrews are forced to work as slaves.
Moses and his mother, Yocheved, as well as his older siblings Aaron and Miriam,
are then shown. To prevent Moses from being thrown into the Nile with the other
Hebrew male newborns, Yocheved places him in a basket and sends him down the Nile
River. In the movie, Moses arrives at the pharaoh's palace in a basket and is adopted
by the Queen. As an Egyptian royal, he is reared in the palace with the Queen and the
Pharaoh, Seti, and develops a great kinship with his adoptive brother, Ramses.
Following then, the film depicts the evolution of their brotherly bond.
The next part of the film introduces deeper content. Moses and Ramses are at a
banquet and meet Tzipporah, who has been captured and presented to Ramses and
Moses. After Moses helps set Tzipporah free, he leaves the palace and encounters two
people whom he does not know up until that moment, Aaron and Miriam. They
recognize Moses and tell him who they are and how he is by birth a Hebrew, not an
Egyptian. He does not believe them at first but then returns to the palace, questioning
his identity. As the viewer watches Moses work through his identity crisis, the film
moves to the scene during which Moses sees an overseer whipping an elderly slave
and Moses attempts to stop the overseer, effectively killing him. Feeling guilt and
resentment at his "false" Egyptian identity, Moses then runs away into the desert and
eventually reaches a land called Midian.
The Prince of Egypt's creative team dares to tell a beautiful new story of
friendship and brotherhood, all while still remaining true to the central messages
of identity, faith, and hope.

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