The Prince

must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.” This is my favorite excerpt from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. I believe it represents everything Machiavelli believed in as a political leader. He truly believed that a ruler should be feared by the people. Niccolò Machiavelli was an important figure during the Renaissance Era in Italy. One of his books, The Prince, which is also known as a political treatise, changed the political structure of Italy and influenced…

his dream and in 1513 he wrote his best known work, entitled The Prince, Principle II. In his book his main focus was on the way a good ruler or prince should perform. He illustrated his own intensely practical convictions with frequent examples from the historical record. He argued social benefits of stability and security in a way anyone can achieve this act, even if he was faced with moral corruption. In general, it was…

The royal beauty lay unconscious in bed with heart-shaped lips, glossy fluffy hair and all the pathetic-ness in the world. Prince Charming was under the sleep spell, and every finger on his hands, every hair on his head lay still. “HAI – YA!” The door was kicked open and in came Snow White, Cinderella and a very cross Sleeping Beauty. Prince Charming woke up with a start and yawned. “Oh good, you’re here” he said, and sat up whilst reaching for his mirror, that said on the frame “Your hair…

Machiavelli believes it is safer to be feared than loved. He states that “it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved, if he is to fail one of the two” (Prince). Princes, in Machiavelli’s eyes, needs to be feared because if he fails, it is safer to be feared than to be loved. Machiavelli favors fear over love for many reasons. One of the reasons are his views on politics as well as past experiences on…

humankind is inherently bad, “a prince, therefore, who desires to maintain himself must learn not always to be good, but to be so or not as necessity may require” (Machiavelli 76). And in these two points lies the central tenants of Machiavelli’s philosophy. Machiavelli also believed that the prince “should have no other thought or object so much at heart... as the art of war and the organization and discipline of his army” (Machiavelli 73). Machiavelli also discusses how a prince should conduct…

other door, so she got jealous and that was her first guy she liked and she was so sad in till her dad found this handsome prince and his sister was the girl she pick, but she didn’t know and she met him and she fall in love with him and he said that they were going to go out with some random people and the princess said ok. That night the prince came to pick her up and she looks so pretty and then they got at the place and then he said the pension names are…

illustrates a nature that is reliant on aconstant questioning of society to bring about knowledge that the entire world should understand. Niccolo Machiavelli gives his definition of what a successful ruler would look like in his renowned work, The Prince and readers can infer Socrates notions towards leadership in Plato’s works, Apology and Crito. Machiavelli’s and Socrates’s time in the political limelight differed by approximately 1900 years, but they both existed in times that were plagued…

practical writing in The Prince. Therefore, the two inherently diverge on their political perspectives and thus, would differ in what they would deem an ‘ideal’ prince, and consequently the political system that would form as a result. In both The Apology and Crito, it is rather ambiguous as to what Socrates believes makes up the ideal prince, as he never clearly outlines it in these texts as Machiavelli does in The Prince. Socrates is not exact in what his idea of an ideal prince is, as he…

I. Preliminary Info A. The Prince B. Niccolo Machiavelli C. The University of Chicago Press; Chicago D. Originally: 1532; This edition: 1985 E. N/A F. Harvey C. Mansfield G. 111 pgs. H. Non-Fiction II. The Book’s Contents A. Non-Fiction 1. The general topic of this book is Machiavelli’s view of how to aquire and maintain power. It also gives his ideas of how and why the Italian government isn’t doing well. 2. In the book The Prince, Machiavelli doesn’t realy use characters as in a novel;…

Prince’s life but it was as close as the director could get. In the movie, Prince was a young, African American man, who was an up and coming musician. He was from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He meets a woman named Apolonia, she was an aspiring singer to him, she also was not just a singer to him, and he fell in love with her. A good friend of his soon .interfered with their relationship. There are outstanding things that made prince who he is remembered for today. He is known for his tireless…