- “I am your brother, Joseph.”
- ―Joseph.
Joseph is the titular protagonist of Joseph: King of Dreams. He is the son of Jacob and Rachel, being the 10th of his brothers. After being sold into slavery, He was taken to Egypt, and was arrested for 2 years by Potiphar. One day, The king had horrible dreams, Joseph interprets the dreams, and later became the governor and the hero of Egypt.
Background[]
Personality[]
Joseph is shown to be an extremely kind, yet highly intelligent and reliable person. He enjoys the status of being a miracle child among his family, but still loves his brothers even if his status as a miracle child by their father was pushing them back; Despite being somewhat disliked by his brothers in the beginning, Joseph also had wanted to work in the fields with his brothers and would sometimes feel excluded whenever he tried to help them due to his status as a miracle child, despite liking the title in a manner; Joseph can also be seen as rather articulate with his dreams, being able to put them directly into his mind whenever speaking and being able to clearly remember anything he dreams about and even at times predict certain events, and though his brothers had envied him, he still tried his best to care and love for them. Though, when his brothers betray him by selling him into slavery for being Jacob's favorite, he became rather depressed in a way, being separated from his family for a rather long time and became rather more docile when being used to doing things like cleaning, and even though he had not had much experience. Despite his hardships, Joseph still kept his faith that God would deliver him from slavery.
Role in the film[]
Joseph is the son of Jacob and Rachel. Joseph was gifted with seemingly strange dreams, and also the ability to interpret them. Because he was born of Rachel, and not Jacob's other wife, Joseph was special because Rachel was supposedly barren and couldn't have children. Because of this, he was treated better than his brothers for most of his childhood. In the beginning of the movie, Joseph was given a coat by his parents, which was the last straw for his brothers.
One day, Joseph wanted to help his brothers, so they sarcastically told him to watch the herd while they round up the stray sheep, when in fact they were swimming. In the midst of Joseph's realization of this, one of the lambs he was watching wandered off and attracted the attention of a wolf. Joseph ran with the lamb to escape but was only saved by the help of his father who scared the wolves away. However, Joseph noticed a dead ram, similar to one he had dreamt about, and Jacob realized that his dreams provided visions of the future.
The next night, Joseph dreamt about him and his brothers, where Joseph was among them, but suddenly above them and they bowed before him. When he spoke of this dream, his brothers ridiculed him, and he was shunned off, followed by Rachel's song, "Bloom".
Joseph soon left to be with his brothers, but they had had enough of Joseph's superiority over them, so they took his coat and pushed him in a ditch, later to sell him to slave-traders for twenty pieces of silver.
Throughout the film, Joseph develops new relations in Egypt with Asenath, Potiphar, and the Pharaoh.
After he is imprisoned because of Potiphar's wife, Zuleika, he is released and asked to interpret the Pharoah's dream, which is one forseeing famine in Egypt.
Later on, after Joseph's plan to overcome the famine was in action, his brothers arrived in Egypt asking for food, willing to pay for it with a familiar twenty pieces of silver. Joseph, in turn, has one of his brothers, Simeon, arrested and imprisoned until the others prove what they say is true, including the existence of a "youngest brother".
Later, the rest of the brothers return with another man, Benjamin, Rachel's last son before she died. He is heartbroken to hear of his mothers loss, but eventually tells the brothers that they kept their word so they may have food.
However, Joseph comes up with another plan. All of his brothers are arrested, and the youngest, Benjamin, is accused of stealing a goblet from Joseph. Joseph orders Benjamin to be enslaved to see how the others will react, but his other brothers beg Joseph to reconsider and take one of them in his place. Seeing the episode of having one of their brothers taken away from their father once again, Joseph's older brothers finally confess their sin in selling Joseph away, stating that they regretted their action more than anything they had ever done. Seeing how genuinely remorseful his brothers are and moved by their honesty, Joseph finally reveals his true identity to them. Seeing their brother still alive, they become delighted and overjoyed. Joseph then invites them all, brothers, father, and the entire village, to move to Egypt where they would be safe from the famine that was raging. And so the entire village moved to Egypt, and Joseph's father was finally able to reunite with his beloved son, forgiving his older sons immediately.
