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Comparison And Contrast Of Edmond Dantes And Joseph From The Bible
Jeremy Zepeda
Mrs. Bowers
English 10th
16 May 2012
Compare and Contrast Edmond Dantes and Joseph from the Bible are similar because they both were betrayed. People that Dantes and Joseph thought they could trust were the same people who falsely accused them. They both got everything taken away from them and were both sent to prison. “Dantes was now thirty-three years old, as we have said, and his fourteen years in prison had brought what might be described as a great spiritual change to his features”(Dumas 9). He was an innocent prisoner like Joseph, and got everything taken from him. Pharos daughter falsely accused Joseph, and took apart the trust Potiphar’s had given him. Potiphar’s daughter was upset “So it was, when his master

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