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    Written in the excerpt from The Morals of the Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, being a political philosopher of the Renaissance, analyzes the ideal qualities and the real qualities of princes. According to his excerpt, paragraph seven lies under the subtitle “On Cruelty and Clemency: Whether It Is Better To Be Loved or Feared”. Base on the subtitle, it can be inferred that the following sections will discuss whether a prince should be loved or feared by his people. In paragraph seven of the excerpt,…

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    Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, written in 1513, stands out as the one advice book that transcended all others. In The Prince, Machiavelli argued against the humanist ideal for its insistence on the prince’s virtues as he, instead, provided a synthesis of rational deployment of force as well as the exercise of virtue. Perhaps due to his encouragement for a prince to dissemble, in other words, to make all his actions appear virtuous, whether they are so or not, Machiavelli’s political…

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    Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince are two extremely distinctive and contrasting products created during the Renaissance. Both the works produced by More and Machiavelli concern themselves with the fundamental issues of how society maintains itself and continues to work regardless of what occurs. The two contrasting scholars may both focus on society but yet both authors created works with exceedingly distinctive purposes behind the products. More's Utopia can be seen as a…

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    Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, written in the sixteenth century, describes princedoms as well as preserving political power within those states. Machiavelli’s work not only had the intentions to inform but to please the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici, to whom the book was dedicated (39). With The Prince, Machiavelli had hopes to regain a position within the government. While he failed in reclaiming power, Machiavelli’s book became one of the most influential works on politics.…

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    The language arts class was scheduled at 5 in the evening. Prince Evener hurried through the garden, not quite sprinting. Once again he justified taking the shortcut through the garden instead of walking the main path. There are too many interruptions if he had gone through the hallways. Somebody is always asking him something, and he cannot always escape like his father does. Once I am king, I can do whatever I want, he tired a sign though his labored breathing. I am dreaming too much of the…

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    ▪ Summary of the main ideas Machiavelli started his book by glorifying the Prince Lorenzo De Medici that he is writing for, he wanted to present him the most valuable thing he owned; his accumulated knowledge and experiences from his long years working in their contemporary affairs and his continual studying to history before his exile. The book is concerned of how to establish a despotic regime? how to consolidate and maintain this regime after establishment? ▪ In the First part, the Author…

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    around to describe Trump, “Machiavellian” comes up quite a bit. Machiavellian refers to ideologies suggested in Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. In The Prince, Machiavelli describes what he thinks are the best ways to acquire and maintain political power. While Trump has often times been described…

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    The Prince was a book that was written by Niccolo Machiavelli . Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat to several European courts. Machiavelli wrote The Prince in dedication to the prince of Italy at the time: Lorenzo De Medici. The Prince is a book about royals written by a commoner who was better informed on the matters of the royals. Machiavelli asserted that The Prince was the aggregation of the knowledge he had acquired over time through many difficulties, sometimes in dangerous ways as he…

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    The frog prince Literary Paragraph In the frog prince by brothers Grimme only one charcter truly emergence as the hero and that is the King. The king was the only character that wasn't self centered because he was caring to the princess and her well being "the king her father seeing that something had frightened her" (Grimm Pg 2) the king noticed something was wrong and insead of neglecting the princess he goes up to her: "Asked her what is the matter". This shows that the king is looking out…

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    recurring themes in “The Prince” are good will and hatred, fortun, and warcraft. The first recurring theme in “The Prince” is good will and hatred, Machiavelli always goes back to the fact that a prince must make sure that he is not hated by his people, a prince must take care of his people and not be cruel and if a prince suspects he is hated by this people he should fear them. He discusses this theme in both chapters XVII and XIX. The second recurring theme in “The Prince is fortune in this…

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