{"id":597,"date":"2019-09-10T21:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=597"},"modified":"2019-09-10T21:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:26:29","slug":"richard-iii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/10\/richard-iii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was very disturbing to read Crooked Politics and see how many parallels there were between a Shakespearean play written in the 16th century and 21st century American politics. Richard stated that he could \u201cframe [his] face to all occasions,\u201d similar to the way that Donald Trump is \u201cwilling to manipulate the needs and desires\u201d of the audience (Bezio, 4-6). Both Richard and Trump used dynamic rhetoric, when they were striving for power, to play off the emotions of the various audiences to manipulate themselves into power. It was very helpful to contextualize Trump\u2019s toxic charisma through <em>Richard III<\/em>, because regardless of a person\u2019s political affiliation, it\u2019s hard to argue that Richard III was not a toxic charismatic, and therefore Donald Trump as well because of the numerous parallels in their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Another parallel was the disenfranchisement of and mudslinging towards women that took place both in <em>Richard III<\/em> and from Donald Trump. Despite that, in <em>Richard III<\/em>, women were still ultimately responsible for the downfall of Richard; potentially, they will be the downfall of Trump as well (Bezio, 15, 17). Regardless of if it is from women, men, minority groups, majority groups, etc, we will hopefully be able to disrupt the toxic charisma of Donald Trump. This can be done by \u201crejecting anxiety, shoring up democratic processes, selecting new leaders\u2026 and embracing diversity\u201d (Bezio, 18). These strategies will be especially important in the upcoming year because there is the chance to elect a better leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was very disturbing to read Crooked Politics and see how many parallels there were between a Shakespearean play written in the 16th century and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/10\/richard-iii-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard III<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68044],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1030-class","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}