America has plenty to learn from William Shakespeare's classic work, 'Julius Caesar.' Learn more here.
This March 15, we can learn some things from Caesar’s story. For, in Shakespeare’s portrayal of ancient Rome, we can see much of ourIn 2017, a New York production of the play portrayed Caesar as looking unmistakably like then-President Donald Trump. Those who came up with the idea saw Trump as a tyrant and seemed to relish the on-stage killing.
But they seemed to have learned the wrong lessons from the play. Shakespeare’s masterpiece revealed more about the weaknesses of Caesar’s opponents than the danger the rising ruler posed to Rome’s freedoms. Others have resembled Cassius, who has the cunning Brutus lacks. He claims to act for the sake of equality, which certainly is a core Republican commitment. However, in reality, he is driven by jealousy of Caesar, not a virtuous love of equal liberty for all men. Plenty of Trump’s opponents fit into this category. Their cunning is not directed at the apparent destroyer of democracy. Instead, they engage in grifting and wish-casting their audience for the fame and the money.
This truth points to another parallel. Brutus at one point laments that they must kill Caesar to accomplish their goal. He says, “That we then could come by Caesar’s spirit / And not dismember Caesar!” In the end, Brutus’s efforts accomplish the opposite. They kill Caesar’s body, but his spirit only strengthens.
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