Dan Youra
iamtrump.org
Donald Trump is Everyman. His issues transcend time. His role in the presidential campaign exposes controversial distinctions between right and wrong. He battles radical conceptions of good and evil. The drama is the season’s top-rated Reality Show whose ratings beat soap operas and reality shows combined.
iamtrump.org
In the Middle Ages a man named Donald Hood
took from the richer and gave to the poorer.
In 16th century England a type of play, known as a morality play, was performed in the village square of every town. The drama was a sermon that was acted out in public. Its purpose was to teach a moral lesson on the distinction between right and wrong.
A morality play is a type of allegory in which the protagonist is confronted by characters, who are personifications of virtues and vices. Starring roles may behope and charity as well as pride and greed. Even things, such as money anddeath, may have a walk-on part.
A morality play is a type of allegory in which the protagonist is confronted by characters, who are personifications of virtues and vices. Starring roles may behope and charity as well as pride and greed. Even things, such as money anddeath, may have a walk-on part.
The biggest hit at the 1500’s box office in England was a play billed as Everyman.Its author unknown, the play’s cast grappled with the moral choices of English life under regal rulers from Henry IV to Henry VIII, whose wealth, castles, string of wives, and wars with Rome dominated the moral choices confronting the kingdom’s serfs.
Now, in the 21st century the blockbuster attraction in the morality play category is a reincarnation of Everyman, starring Donald Trump in an unfolding drama, The Donald Versus The Empire. This modern day Everyman pits the protagonist against a menagerie of characters, personifications of the individual vs. the state,dependence vs. wealth, and freedom vs. serfdom.
Donald Trump is Everyman. His issues transcend time. His role in the presidential campaign exposes controversial distinctions between right and wrong. He battles radical conceptions of good and evil. The drama is the season’s top-rated Reality Show whose ratings beat soap operas and reality shows combined.
21st century producers of morality plays have no need to send actors and minstrels from town to town as in days of yore. The protagonist’s performance is acted out on a virtual stage, an electronic projection of his starring role delivered live to ear buds, eye phones, hand pads, and flat screens. In today’s morality play all action is simultaneously viewed and ubiquitous throughout the realm.
Recall William Shakespeare’s famous phrase, “All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.”
The starring role in today’s morality play has been awarded to Donald Trump. His entrance onto center stage is uncontested. In his time he plays many parts. He is the hero and the villain. Feared by members of the Rulers Club, pursued by the paparazzi, and acclaimed by the masses, Caesar returns to Rome. Approval or disapproval by the Academy is irrelevant. The show must go on!
