Dishonesty

1. Why should a Prince understand how to “use well both the man and the beast”? A Prince should understand how to use both the man and beast ways of interaction well in order to know which approach will be most effectual to obtain the desired outcome. Knowing how to keep the faith and live uprightly will win popularity votes while living craftily can get the job done. Knowing when to go from abiding by the law to applying force is the important balancing act that Machiavelli states that a…

Kane's was sent away from his home partly due to his violent and abusive father. -Charles Kane had much success and fame is based on his career as newspaper publisher -Charles Kane's success was based on yellow journalism, which was pretty much dishonesty and a complete disregard for the truth -Charles Kane's pursuit of a political career ended in failure with the discovery of love affair of his future second wife, Susan Alexander. -Charles Kane's second wife,Susan Alexander, eventually left…

Several short stories have criticized the characteristics of the upper class in England; Authors, Oscar Wilde and Katherine Mansfield, have criticized the upper class through their stories. Katherine Mansfield’s stories “The Doll House,” “A Cup of Tea,” and “The Garden Party,” and Oscar Wilde’s story, “Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” portray how the upper class tends to be self-centered, untruthful, insensitive, and superficial. The first negative characteristic of the upper class is their…

The prologue “Wife of Bath” was about a woman who had 5 husbands and spoke about the relationships between man and women. The prologue is her speaking about her experience with men and how people reacted to her love life when they found out the amount of husbands she had throughout her lifetime. To the reader it is instantly evident that there were good, missing, and bad entities in the story. In my opinion, I believe she was all three. The reason why I state that she was missing is because,…

Dishonesty, deception, and misunderstandings are common reasons to cause conflict, but also avoid it. Allan Moore’s “The Diary”, allows us to see how secrets and miscommunication can cause a simple action of putting a dog to sleep to thinking a murder is soon to happen. In the short story, curiosity killed the cat, Ted reads his wife, Agnes’s diary and his misunderstood yet believed that his own love would kill him.In Ted’s perspective, Agne showed more affection toward her dog, so why kill the…

Laying it all out on the table is a robust move in order to prove that one is the greatest. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the “American Dream” as an easily obtainable reality for a hefty price. There are all kinds of hearsay about how Jay Gatsby came to be, but only the main character, Nick Carraway, knows the truth. Having integrity drastically increases one’s ability to be great by being creditable, but Fitzgerald illustrates that some individuals may have to change…

obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away” (Fitzgerald 177). He visits Jordan to discuss their relationship and tells her he is “too old to lie to myself and call it honor” (Fitzgerald 177). Through Gatsby’s sudden death, Nick realizes his dishonesty with himself and can admit he wrongly handled his relationship with Jordan. Overall, Gatsby’s friendship saves Nick by helping him realize his biased self-perception, preventing him from future dishonest mistakes, and redeeming him from…

The Apology is a dialogue that consists of Socrates defence speech at his trial in Athens. The term comes from the Greek word ‘Apologia’, meaning ‘speech in defence of’, and not as it may seem an apology for his actions, in fact, it is quite the contrary in which he defends not only himself, but since he is the archetype of the Philosopher, philosophy and the philosophical way of life too. Further arguing that “examining both myself and others is really the very best thing a man can do, and that…

An epic created by the Grecian bard Homer, The Odyssey, tells the tale of the hero Odysseus who sails the treacherous sea in order to find his home and see his wife and son. During his two decades out on the sea, Odysseus and his allies who travel with him face many hardships. Some are temporarily turned into pigs, others eaten by sea monsters, and all but Odysseus face Helios’ wrath after eating the Sun God’s cows. Odysseus, by sacrificing his men for the sake of self-preservation rather…

According to Barcalow, virtues are defined as the good or praiseworthy traits and vices are defined as the bad or blameworthy traits (Barcalow, Pg. 115). A morally good person has many virtues with few vices. On the other hand, a morally bad person has many vices and lack virtues. If we look at Batman and the Joker, Batman is a morally good person. He has courage shown how he risks his life and well –being to protect Gotham. He’s just an ordinary human with no extraordinary powers. He provides…