Comparing Machiavelli's The Prince And Thomas More Utopia

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Power is something everyone has power over themselves or others. The way they chose to use it. We see the way the government hides lots of information and the hunger they have for power. They do as they wish to get what they want they wish to get what they want shown in Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince and Thomas More’ Utopia. In the way authors of this novels show how they see the government like if they controlled everything and anything and who has more power Gods or the government like in Antigone and 1984. Power is the control over something or someone. Many people have different views on who should have power? The governmental law or the higher power.There are many ways to lose or gain power the way people lose them while others gain …show more content…
In utopia he wanted to give the power to the people as he said “But now, it seems, I must explain the behavior of the citizens towards one another, the nature of their social relations, and the method of distribution of goods. This show how he wants to give the power to shift to for the people who wanted to live a good life.
When wilson was taken his power way it was given to gaining power he wanted to “He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian(20).” in 1984. This shows how his mindset is of they way he gets power he feels that this is the way to think. Always secard and unusual of the government will have him killed.People do not always show how to think people do not show what they really should which leads to people believing the government has the power while others feel the higher power dose.
The government hides and control what helps them look more powerful with what really power, how it shifts, and who has the true power.With this ideas thea were sheared show how in real life and in fection the government hides and control others. Today we do not know what the government hides but it clear that they do not tell us what is happening but what keeps people

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