The Prince

was wrong with Europe in the 1500’s? Why did most new governments fall within a couple of years? What if there was a way and a plan to fix the problems in these governments? Thomas More and Machiavelli both had the same thought when they created The Prince and Utopia, they wanted to share their opinions on how a government should be ruled. Even though More and Machiavelli wanted to achieve the same goal, have a stable government, they both had very different beliefs on how to do so. Lets begin…

The prince became furious as no one listened to his command. He bolted towards the man in the mask. He chased after him through all seven chamber until finally the masked man stopped in the seventh chamber. The prince stopped and just stared, expecting something, anything. The masked man turned around and stared the prince in his eyes. The man put his finger to his lips and held them there for a moment. Then reached for his mask, he had no face; it was pure evil, pure darkness. The prince…

man he was the Prince of Bliss, the neighboring kingdom. So a plan flowed through her brain. She sat quietly in her throne for the rest of the wedding. When it was over she snuck away to meet with the Prince of Bliss. When the princess found the prince she told him of her plan, they were to be married in two weeks. Then they went to find their lovers. The princess and the prince followed…

Sun Tzu, a Chinese general; and Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian writer, have in common, despite all three being from different times and cultures? Their overlapping views of what makes an ideal ruler, of course. In their books The Art of War and The Prince, Sun Tzu and Machiavelli respectively both expand upon the traits of a model leader in great detail, but of the many qualities they list, there are three that notably overlap: skill in war, the ability to act, and the wisdom to know when to.…

When is the rule by cruelty necessary, according to Machiavelli? According to Machiavelli, he claims that the prince needs to rule by cruelty, especially in terms of crime and justice. If the prince is generous at all times, including the period of disorder, people will lose trust. With courage and cruelty, the prince should abandon his personal qualities, rule by cruelty, and eliminate all possible crimes and misdeeds for the safety of the country. How can being cruel to a few lead to being…

The ideology employed in The Prince is highly reflective of the emerging humanism ideology of the Italian Renaissance. In the first few chapters, Machiavelli discusses the difficulty leaders have in maintaining control over recently obtained territories with difference customs than his own. First, Machiavelli states that leaders have a more difficulty preserving a new territory than maintaining a hereditary princedom. He provides two reasons for this: First, the people will willingly trade one…

Machiavelli defines 4 different types of armies and the appropriate conduct of a prince as military leader. A prince must pay close attention to military affairs if he desires to continue ruling. The most dangerous and unreliable are mercenaries/hired soldiers, and auxiliaries whose troops are advanced to you by other rulers. The most desirable kind of army is the native troops who are collected of one's own citizens. The less desirable army would be a combination of mixed troops, native troops…

Machiavelli’s moral theory Machiavelli’s The Prince is said to be a manual for new rulers, not a philosophical text. Thus, bringing forth questions as to why one should consume their time with reading it. It is argued that The Prince is still read today due to its predominant link to consequentialism and/or amoralism. Either of these are plausible, but which moral theory did Machiavelli’s vision of politics really take on? Consequentialism can be defined as an ethical theory in which the…

This argument is not untrue; one can not simply read The Prince and expect to understand Machiavelli’s view on human nature. Readers should recognize that Machiavelli “was an instinctive dramatist, and one of the dramatic effects he most enjoyed producing was shock and outrage” (Machiavelli, Prince, pg. xvi). Furthermore, the fact that The Prince was destined for Principes- state formers- thus explains Machiavelli’s hesitance to share an account of human…

The Epic Journey of Princess Alara (and that other Prince) The day had come for Prince Casper and Princess Alara to journey across the vast nation of Sway. It had been tradition to always send a Prince from the east side of the kingdom to meet a Princess (from a different lineage, of course) who lived on the west side of the kingdom. Both royals must make the dangerous trek to the very center of their kingdom, in order for a grand wedding to take place. Alas, journeying east to west was much…