Is Jack Bauer a Moses Figure?

Posted by Patrick Corkum on March 25, 2010

Okay, so this may seem like a stretch at first. I mean after all, how could Jack Bauer (you know… from the Fox hit show 24) be anything like Moses. Well, during my class last night (The Pentateuch), I had this thought about how similar they really are. Hear me out:

• Jack: In good with the top-dog (the President)
• Moses: In good with the top-dog (God)

• Jack: Constantly saving the people (the Americans)
• Moses: Constantly saving the people (the Israelites)

• Jack: Does something deserving punishment and receives mercy (you know… like torturing people and going rogue)
• Moses: Does something deserving punishment and receives mercy (goes to get water from a rock, hitting it twice)

• Jack: Bears the burdens of the people to his own peril willingly (you know… always willing to accept the consequences)
• Moses: Bears the burdens of the people to his own peril willingly (remember how he tells God that he might as well not be with him if he is not with the people?)

Okay… am I really that crazy? Jack Bauer is really just like Moses!