The Importance of a Performative Gesture

"There's just a lot of poop that gets in the area where we have to kneel down and then like putting your nose in there," Mordecai says. "The closer your nose is to the poop, it's like the more you smell it." The gate guards are wondering if maybe there's some kind of religious or medical exemption here for doing the performative gesture because they bring up that he's a Jew. Heyman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.