Niccolò Paganini

In The Prince, Machiavelli uses fortuna to refer to the luck and opportunity that can befall a prince. In addition, he uses the word virtu when referring to the ability of a leader. A ruler who is given power through inheritance, or wealth, relies on money and family in order to sustain their power, like a crutch. Take away the crutch, and the prince will lose their ability to sustain their regime because they lack the virtu to lead alone . Through the passage a significant detail is added to…

The Different Meanings of Power Marco Polo, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Olaudah Equiano, and the Signatories of The Declaration of Independence define ideas of power and difference through their personal narratives or texts and the intentions of their writings. Primary sources that will be explored in this essay are Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) translated by Thomas Wright and William Marsden, the Venetian, Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) translated by W.K.…

Masculinity Power, honor and dominance, all the necessary elements to be a man. In the novel Things Fall Apart and the short story, The Man Who Would Be King the main characters must sacrifice their themselves in order to achieve what they want the most, which is respect and authority. My paper will analyze the concepts of masculinity in The Man Who Would Be King by Rudy Kipling and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. In the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe there's a man named…

Undoubtedly, a good leader must be kind, decisive, generous, and brave among others characteristics. However, having them all does not guarantee a good leadership unless the person in office finds the necessary balance. In William Shakespeare´s Macbeth, three different kinds of leaders had the chance to rule Scotland. Each one of them showed different kinds of strengths and weaknesses. Unquestionably, certain excesses, even some associated to positive traits, led two of them to fail as leaders…

War is beautiful. War is necessary. We must fight because we are right, and the enemy is wrong. When raised in a nation that is free, these three statements will be echoed until it is time to be shipped off to battle. There is no argument or resistance, only a generation of young men that believe their right is not to be free, but to die in hopes that their sacrifice will bring freedom to those they love. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen is a bitter contradiction about the common belief…

Niccolò Machiavelli is known as the “father of modern political theory” and is known for writing The Prince. The Prince is known as an instruction manual on how to be a leader and how to run a government and dedicated the book Lorenzo de' Medici. The Prince has a lot of fantastic concepts and ideas however some of the concepts do not apply to today’s world. Businesses today need leaders that shows compassion and cares more about the workers than gaining more power. Compassion leaders are…

Through their powerful renderings of war and politics, Niccolò Machiavelli's iconoclastic 1532 political treatise The Prince and Shakespeare's 1599 historical tragedy Julius Caesar mutually seek to explore the nature of human weakness. A manifestation of Machiavelli's radically realpolitik interpretation of Renaissance humanism, The Prince subverts the traditional Christian moral zeitgeist, redefining weakness in instrumental terms - that a leader's results are superior in importance to his…

The immoral acquisition and abuse of authority is facilitated by the presumption of inherent human morality within political systems. This is the dominant intertextual perspective between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, examined through the values of stability and morality within politics. Texts, as manifestations of values and attitudes, are incontrovertibly influenced by their distinct contexts. As such, though an intertextual perspective may exist…

Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince is a depiction of how a “prince” or namely anyone in a position of power is to act toward his subjects, army, adversaries, etc. The development of Machiavelli’s worldview can be better explained by his time spent as a diplomat, statesman, and prisoner, as his many interactions with individuals in positions of power led him to formulate his theories on power and how it should be maintained. The Prince was a unique piece of writing for its time, in what it praises…

In Machiavelli’s The Prince, Machiavelli gives an instructional guide on how to gain and keep political power. This instruction manual gives essential strategies on how to achieve political dominance; if one uses these strategies to their full capability, then one achieves complete political dominance over their citizens and any opposition that may rise. Using Machiavelli’s writing is essential for political domination. President Trump’s political and professional career can be framed with The…