Niccolo Machiavelli wrote "The Qualities of the Prince" in July 1513 in Florence, Italy, to convey his idea of the strong, active, and perfect ruler to the current ruling the Medicis. The work is remembered and responsible for bringing “Machiavellian” into wide usage as a pejorative term. The essay takes a stringent position on the proper way to govern a nation. With a straightforward logic, a relevant idea, and an expressed method, Machiavelli’s “The Qualities of the Prince” is a practical guide for current…
Machiavelli in The Prince is primarily a practical observer and diplomat analyst prescribing numerous ethical and political instructions to Cesar Borgia for pyramidical maintenance, sustenance and enhancement of political power at various stages of capturing, nurturing, preserving and augmenting power and absolute power for the prince. Hobbes’s aim in his Leviathan is similar to that of Machiavelli’s The Prince. Both are equally concerned for bringing about order out of chaotic civil war like situation in England and arbitrary ruler in Italy respectively. Hobbes is making an all-out effort to create an edifice and basis of scientific foundation for the need of a sovereign power through his so called scientific materialism. That is why he discusses at length human nature, psyche and need for sociological order in society.…
In this respect, Schultz introduces the theory of performativity of gender by Judith Butler’s: according to it, gender identity is instable and is learnt by each individual through observation of other members of the society (79–80). Accordingly, the success of all 11 of Edmonds’s disguises can be seen as the proof of the theory: the main character is able to perform the role of a man, because this role has particular prescriptions that are to be followed in order to be a man. According to Schulz, the war was an opportunity to experiment with or even reform the social order (80), because “during wars, … social identity is more fluid” (88). Certainly, it was appealing to women from all classes (80–81):…
Niccolò Machiavelli is smart and a strategic author. There are many ways on how to interpret his famous work, “The Prince”. It is intriguing that Machiavelli did not provide a title for the book. In doing so, Machiavelli shows his strategic writing to challenge the reader. To read the book and accept it in a literal sense is questionable.…
Savagery is defined as the quality of being fierce or cruel by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Savagery is seen in everyday life, from bullying in school to physical torture to murder. However, there does seem to be a difference between the brutality of men and women. When thinking back to a more primitive time, it was a male’s job to hunt and kill while females had a more protective role. The difference between men's and women's cruelty is that women are more defensive in their savagery while men tend to be more aggressive.…
In her Graphic Memoir Tomboy, Liz Prince, born a girl but likes to do boyish things talks about what its like to not fit into society’s gender role conspiracy. She talks about the first 18 years of her life while using pictures to describe her feelings from dresses, to hair, to clothing at various ages. She is truthful and forward while strolling down memory lane about the things girls aren’t supposed to do and how expectations of gender roles can play a major part in the way a young girls mind can think. Society tells young ladies that there 's one and only approach to be a young lady and that silliness is innately worth not as much as boyishness. Liz Prince disguised those messages and considered them important.…
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.” Machiavelli uses this analogy as an attempt to teach the masses how to embrace their human significance. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at a time where there was political unrest and confusion in Italy, which is why it can be interpreted in many different ways, such as a political satire or epilogue of his political views; however, while the content may be confusing the true meaning of The Prince is to be understood as a satire. Machiavelli is continuously sarcastic through out the course of the novel about the government standings and the changing world.…
The movie, Brave, demonstrates a young girl going outside of the female gender normality. Much like the normalities defined and described in "Understanding Gender," The girl, Marida, was destined to become a fragile little princess, but she wanted to be more. She wanted to take after her father; she wanted to practice her archery and wrestle with her brothers. Marida did not take to the stereotypical gender roles that girls usually do. She wanted to be herself and go outside of what was expected of her, the norm.…
Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince Introduction Niccolo Machiavelli is a famous statesman, thinker and one of the founders of modern political science. He was born in the year 1469 at Florence. That is the age of political chaos. The whole country was separated to city governments。In this case, he wrote his masterpiece, The Price, which to be as much praised as blamed. Machiavelli used terse and forceful words elaborate his argument, which had a profound influence in history.…
Introduction: The cinematic text of Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) is one that places its viewers in a tactfully contrived and theatrically constructed domain: a domain that only becomes comprehensible to us through Orlando’s instances of self-reflexive narration, through the omniscient narrator that privileges Orlando’s narrative perspective, and through a camera lens that constructs and emphasizes Orlando’s body as the starting and focal point of that narrative. From this highly self-reflexive narrative, we learn that Orlando recounts the story of an individual who experiences the world, as both an embodied male and an embodied female; he is the former for the span of three centuries (15th-18th), she is the latter for two centuries (18th-20th).…
Epitome of Masculinity There is no grey area when dealing with the expectations of men and women in a tribalistic society; there is only black or white. Men and women are on completely different ends of the spectrum regarding how society perceives them. In the Igbo culture, men are considered the head of family and society while women are considered caretakers and are subordinate to men. Men are expected to have an active and aggressive personality while women, however, are expected to be subservient and passive. These expectations shape how society is supposed to be and influence the decisions of individuals.…
Should gender stop someone from being who they want to be? During the early seventeenth century, many social barriers prevented people from being themselves, such as remaining the gender they were born with throughout their whole life. Any movement and straying from their gender, based on their biological sex, was not acceptable and was looked down upon. Societal structure and law made very clear that biological sex must be the same as sexual orientation. However, in the play Twelfth Night, or What You Will, Shakespeare creates Viola to manipulate gender ambiguities that allow her to express her true feelings and emotions to ultimately prove that gender is irrelevant in a relationship.…
In the 16th century, women were usually depicted in literature as vulnerable, fragile and compliant. While men were often represented as strong, valiant, and independent. During the time men ruled the world, women were considered as property, no better than cattle or land. However, Shakespeare's significant plays drove the idea into people's minds toward accepting the new ideas that women were just as strong, valiant and independent like any other man. Especially in the play, The Merchant of Venice.…
I will use one adaption that shows a traditional marriage of Isabella and the Duke where Isabella acts like she is in love and happy to be married. This adaption will support the idea that women eventually fall back into the three defined categories and restore the balance to the patriarchy, while the other adaption will assert the opposite. The other adaptation I will portray a non-traditional reaction to the Duke’s proposal, where Isabella is off to the side shaking her head or crossing her arms in protest against his advances. This adaptation will support the claim that I will make in my overall paper that Isabella tries to use the patriarchies on system to break that system down. In conjunction with the two film adaptions and the play itself, I also plan to use other secondary sources and articles regarding feminist theory and feminist critique to support my argument.…
The female protagonist does not sympathize with the Duchess because she represents everything the protagonist does not want herself and other females to be. In Atwood’s short story, the female protagonist’s criticism of the sexism that is present in her school and society is an example of her passionate feminism that motivates her desire to be as powerful and intelligent as the Duke in Browning’s…
