The movie Prince of Egypt took place at a time when there was alot of slavery. In this movie the Hebrews served as slaves for the Pharaoh and his men. Moses was born at a time when the Pharaoh was killing all the first borns of the age of one or younger that belonged to the Hebrew race. Moses’s mother saved his life by putting him in a basket and taking him to the river, so that the river might possibly take him to a better home. Miriam, his sister, followed the basket to see where his home would be and finds that he floats into the Pharaoh’s home and is taken as a younger son of Rameses.
When young Moses and Rameses were naughty, they played tricks on all the Pharaoh's men, and knocked down the empire the Pharaoh was trying to destruct.
One day when the family had a gigantic party, a girl was brought in chains, and Moses was forced to tease her, but after the ball Moses realized his meanness and helped the girl escape by talking to the guards while she and her camel ran away. As he was walking home he runs across his sister Miriam. Miriam tells him he is a slave and is to lead the Hebrews out of slavery. Moses could not believe her and ran back to the temples of the Pharaoh, where he's found out the truth about himself: he is a slave. He knows this by looking at the designs on the walls where one mural stands for the time of his age. The mural shows first-borns being thrown into a river of vicious crocodiles.
He is stunned at what he sees and the next day notices the hard work the slaves have before them, and how their lazy masters whip them into working faster. After watching this for some time Moses can't stand it any longer. He sees an old man being whipped. Lunging at the attacker, Moses throws the man off the walls where he had been working, and the man falls to his death. Moses watched what he had done in horror, and decides to run away.
Away to the desert...away from the slavery...away from the pharaoh...away from his brother... away to happiness. Moses found this happiness at the home of the girl he helped escape. The home was in the desert, the home of his own escape.
Moses realized how happy those people were and married the girl.
When he married her he became a sheperd. One day a sheep ran astray into a cave, and Moses of course followed it, for it was his job, and in doing this he fell across the burning bush. It was God and one of his many wonders. God told Moses that he wanted him to lead his people out of captivity and slavery to the promised land, also known as the land of milk and honey.
Moses willingly does the task God gives him, and he and his wife go back to slavery, back to the Pharaoh, and back to his "brother ". When they get there Moses straightly approaches the throne and performs the first wonder: he turns his staff into a snake. Rameses ( the pharaoh ) does not falter, for his priest can perform the same trick. Moses tries in vain to persuade him to let his people go. He performs all sorts of god's wonders and plagues. Even when he turned the turned the sea into blood the Pharaoh didn't falter.
Finally at the plague where all the firstborns are killed by an unknown source, unless you have the blood of a sheep upon your door, did the Pharaoh let the Hebrews go, for his son died in the plague. And as most fathers love their sons, Rameses screamed out in agony.
The people had a different approach and were overjoyed that they finally could be free. Yet sorrow still touched their hearts and many felt empathy towards the Pharaoh. So they started their journey to the Red Sea. When they came to the sea, Moses parts it with God's will and his staff. It was at that moment that the Pharaoh comes, for he had lied and brought his troops after the people. But the people were on the other side, for God was far ahead of Rameses, bringing the waves crashing upon him and his troops. When the people reached the other side they realized that they were FREE!
I recommend this movie to many because it is a really great true story that all people should know. It really showed how bad slavery is. People should not be whipped and struck to do work for other people who just sit on their backs and enjoy the sunshine. This movie really showed that as I said before.
It also showed what Egypt was like at that time. At that period in the movie the pharaohs were building temples and pyramids made out of sand and burnt brick. The people of Egypt were broken up into three groups: the Royals, the Nobles(normal people), and the slaves (Hebrews). Those groups had different tasks assigned to them. The first group had to build an empire; the second had to do their jobs such as being a butcher, a merchant--those kind of things; and the third had to work only for their masters and build in excoriating pain. Also in Egypt the people believed in many Gods instead of one. They believed in the afterlife, making their people ready for it.
Moses on the other hand believed in one remarkable, wonderful, fantastic, and awesome God!!!!
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