(8) The real reason to use Trump to portray Caesar is 1) People are heavily opinionated when it comes to him, and 2) to modify the story. People are going to easily recognize the large tie and foreign wife and associate it with the current president. This will help get the point across that, “He’s the leader, so I see the impact when something happens to him.” (10) Only heavily biased and ignorant people seemed to have had such a negative reaction to this adaptation. In the article, “Pro-Trump protestors disrupt NYC’s “Julius Caesar,” 1 arrested”, by Caroline Linton, a woman named Laura Loomer filmed herself herself rushing across the stage during the assassination scene of Caesar where she proceeded to yell , “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right. This is unacceptable … this is violent!” She then proceeded to compare the production to ISIS and yelled the word, “Shame!” (3) This led to her arrest and shows how ignorant she was, not only for claiming that the play was politically violent against the right, but for daring to compare it to the terrorist organization ISIS. Her actions go on to show how important art is in spreading messages to warn and educate
(8) The real reason to use Trump to portray Caesar is 1) People are heavily opinionated when it comes to him, and 2) to modify the story. People are going to easily recognize the large tie and foreign wife and associate it with the current president. This will help get the point across that, “He’s the leader, so I see the impact when something happens to him.” (10) Only heavily biased and ignorant people seemed to have had such a negative reaction to this adaptation. In the article, “Pro-Trump protestors disrupt NYC’s “Julius Caesar,” 1 arrested”, by Caroline Linton, a woman named Laura Loomer filmed herself herself rushing across the stage during the assassination scene of Caesar where she proceeded to yell , “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right. This is unacceptable … this is violent!” She then proceeded to compare the production to ISIS and yelled the word, “Shame!” (3) This led to her arrest and shows how ignorant she was, not only for claiming that the play was politically violent against the right, but for daring to compare it to the terrorist organization ISIS. Her actions go on to show how important art is in spreading messages to warn and educate