The Prince By: Niccolo Machiavelli Julius Caesar once said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Niccolo Machiavelli' s novel The Prince, he envisions himself as a ruler and through his successes and failures at political strategy, he achieves greatness through his final achievement of writing a masterpiece. ... My second reason that inspired Machiavelli to write The Prince, promises to benefit future rulers on how to rule more effectively. ... If Julius did not invest so much time in a false appearance, he could have redeemed himself rather then becoming a mean and hurtful prince. ... Ma...

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He claims that the people have a natural response of resisting a new prince that enters their territory and that the new prince cannot truly punish them if he is trying to win their support. ... Vices that would normally be condemned however, are sometimes necessary in protecting the prince's interests. ... Moving on to honesty, Machiavelli seems to believe that dishonesty has its benefits among princes too. ... A prince must appear virtuous, but he doesn't have to have virtue. ... By giving the masses access to weapons, they help both themselves and the prince from enemy attacks. ...

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In "The Prince," Machiavelli opens his prescription by explaining two kinds of states. ... Machiavelli states, "Well-ordered states and wise princes have studied diligently not to drive the nobles to desperation and to satisfy the populace and keep it contented" (Machiavelli, pg. 297). ... As Machiavelli explained it, one of the roles of a Prince is to acquire as much territory and to colonize, which essentially one of the roles of the state to acquire economic power and expansion. ... By good laws, the state, or rather, the prince, should be miserly, because "niggardliness is one ...

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To this end, In The Prince, Machiavelli offers the following advice to would be princes: "You should know, then, that there are two ways of contending: one by using laws, the other, force. ... Machiavelli insists that the prince should seem "exceptionally merciful, trustworthy, upright, humane and devout" and says further that the prince "need not actually posses all the above mentioned qualities, but he must certainly seem to" . ... Another instance, for which Machiavelli feels that it is necessary for a prince to venture beyond "properly human means" and act beastly, or cruel is the wa...

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Similarly, to Nanny of the Windward maroons, Mary prince of Bermuda also participated in a 'passive' form of resistance and succeeded in the efforts to eliminate slavery. Correspondingly to Nanny, Mary Prince too was a free woman but was born into slavery on the island of Bermuda. ... However, because Prince's book relied on personal experience that depicted the brutality, inequality and suffering of the slaves, it altered the mines of many individuals. ... This means that they felt that Prince's book played a crucial role in the elimination of slavery as it was published ...

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(The first holds the actual character, personality, beliefs of the prince;! ... It might be good to note the slightly chauvanistic temper to The Prince. ... And, of course, most frequent of all was Machiavelli's emphatic comment that a new prince could only manage ! ... This is so important--and virtuous--because it would keep the prince from fouling his residence (and thus from fouling Florence) and it would tend to make him a Florentine, the best thing for a prince of Florence to be. In the final analysis, virtu and fortuna come screaming out from the pages of The Prince itself. ...

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The prince doesn't tell his family about meeting the princess and awakening her, but keeps it a secret for two years, even though he has two kids with her, until his father dies. ... This instills the idea that true love does exist regardless of what social class or fiscal status, since the Prince wanted to marry a peasant rather than a princess, and Aurora wanted to marry someone of unknown status rather than a prince. ... There was also the heroic and charming Prince Charming, who was brave and rich and would have made for the perfect husband, also a model for the young boys to be. .....

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Machiavelli advises princes to adopt characteristics that serve their state. ... Machiavelli primarily writes with a concern for the preservation of the state and the prince. ... In "The Prince," the founding of political societies arises from man's use of arms. ... Moral codes and biblical teachings cannot be completely abandoned by princes. These ethical laws govern princes to the degree at which the people dictate. ...

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When the Mongol army approached a clan on the eastern Kievan Rus border, the clan asked the princes for assistance. ... The veche was responsible for things such as law making and deciding the fates of the local princes. ... After a somewhat calm period, the darugi began to shift the responsibility of collecting taxes to the princes of each area. When the prince of Kiev turned on the Mongols, the prince of Moscow stayed loyal and was thus given the responsibility of chief tax collector. ... The Mongols thoroughly destroyed the reputations of the princes and any of the already standing public l...

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Perhaps the most familiar version of the story is that told by Campbell Grant, a screenwriter for Disney, in which a young neglected heroine is saved by a handsome prince. ... Additionally, there is the prince who is perceived as dashing, chivalrous and noble, placing him squarely in the "good guy- pile. ... However, The Duke's pride and cherished heir, the prince, is not described as an evil person by association, but rather as "able, intelligent, and of noble bearing,"" (Lee 612). ... Moreover, after an evening of captivating the prince, Ashella "[said] a spell to bind [him to her]- ...

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The main villain of "Much Ado" is Don John who is the illegitimate brother of Don Pedro, the Prince of Arragon. ... When Tybalt took stance Benvolio gave Tybalt advice to "put up your swords," but Tybalt took no heed of this, as he took no heed of the words of the Prince, who had already set a pledge to stop fighting, and the punishment was severe. ... However, at the masked party in "Much ado," Don John attempts to convince Claudio that the Prince has been fooling with Claudio, just to let him down and get Hero for himself and states that the Prince "woos for himself." ... As previously menti...

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In the painting, Baltasar Carlos and a dwarf, standing at one side of Baltasar Carlos is a dwarf, presumably one of the companions of the prince, who holds two playthings, an apple and a rattle. ... On one level, they can be regarded toys, which are now being removed from the prince by the dwarf, who seems to edge off the scene toward the left-hand corner of the picture. ... The parallel shapes of the toys and those symbols of worldly power, the scepter and orb, also suggest the implicit reference to the prince's kingly future. ...

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"The Prince," written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1513, was a great representation of the new ideas that surfaced within literature during the Renaissance. ... Machiavelli stressed the need to conquer new lands and for princes to maintain their power through any means necessary, using Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, and Julius II as his primary examples. He modeled his treatise on that of Aristotle's Politics, and his premise of how princes should conduct themselves morally was based on an understanding of human nature itself. With respect and knowledge of the actual virtues man possessed, a p...

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Known for her controversial rule being Tsarina of Russia, Catherine was the daughter of Prince Christian Auguste in the small state of Anhalt-Zerbst, only to marry into immortality. ... Out of her number of lovers such as Sergei Saltykov, Count Stanislaw Poniatowski and Count Grigori Orlov, she found one favourite by the name of Prince Grigori Potemkin. ... In 1794, a novel named Pansalvin was written about Catherine II the Great's rule, and presents Catherine II as Miranda and Potemkin and Pansalvin, Prince of Darkness. The book quotes: "Miranda was a praiseworthy princess and in her lan...

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Muller, news broke that the Emir's son Prince Abdullah has been kidnapped. ... Muller outwits him by the help of an old friend, the Portuguese merchant Oliveria de Figueria and Caption Haddock who reaches with the Emir's soldiers just in time to recover the prince. ... A fine example is when Tintin is able to see right through Professor Müller's trick when he kidnaps the prince, but sends a letter to the palace in the name of Bab-El- Ehr. It is Tintin who enters Müller's palace with the help of Oliveria, an old friend and successfully retrieves the prince and comes out al...

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Whilst some in high places and positions of authority such as the Kandyan prince Vijaya Pala may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. ... "Sacred texts" (the Dhamma for Buddhists and the Sanskrit texts for Hindus) were also ordered to be destroyed whenever discovered. (2) Indeed, given the Portuguese colonist's eagerness to resort to violence in "converting" the native populations to Catholicism, it is perhaps no surprise that the aforementioned...

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In both The Prince and The Discourses, Machiavelli firmly opposed the ambitions of the papacy, emperor, and foreign rulers who created chaos in Italy. ... Machiavelli viewed religion as a useful instrument for princes to rule a civilized state. ... In "Friendly Admonition to Peace," Luther supported the peasants' declaration of the injustices done to them by the princes, their rulers. Luther substantiated this because the princes did not rule under God's word when they did not allow the peasants the right to hear the gospel or choose their pastors. ...

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Since Charles V, backed by the power of Spain, had been unable either to strengthen his authority at the expense of the territorial princes or to wipe out Protestantism, it was understandable that his immediate successors preferred to leave the constitutional and religious issues alone. ... Cordoba and Tilly claimed victory; they were unable to stop the Brunswick prince. ... Supported by Lutheran and Calvinist German princes, Christian mobilized a large army in the spring of 1625 and invaded Saxony. ...

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It is believed that during this time, Behn gathered the inspiration and resources necessary to write Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave, which is supposedly the true story of an African prince who is enslaved and brought to Surinam. ... Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... An example of this stems from a scene in the book where Prince Oroonoko stands amongst all of the slaves looking just as them and wearing the same clothing, yet people still treat him as a ...

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By the late 16th century, many influential political thinkers as well as princes and their advisors became convinced that absolutism held the only hope for the future. ... Jean Bodin's work 6 Books of the Commonweal 1576 originated a theory of modern sovereignty when he argued that "the first and chief mark of a sovereign prince" - the power upon which other people depend - was that he must be able to make law without consulting anyone else. ... These and other princes and their bureaucrats worked to impose reforms from the top down after 1740, but the philosophes provided only oe sourc...

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In more recent films such as The Little Mermaid, Ariel wants to transform her body so she can win the prince, and in Beauty and the Beast, it's suggested that all an abusive man really needs is the love of a good woman to tame him. ... Snow White is exceptionally passive in her relationship with the prince. ... In the end the prince carts Snow White away to a castle in the sky, while her friends (the seven dwarfs), who have cherished her and been there for her, are left without a care in the world. ... Mulan isn't waiting for her prince to someday come; when he does arrive, having kn...

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She then has a night of affairs with an Arabian prince who has her arrested after she refused $3000, ripped it up, and slapped him. ... Another instance when Firdaus exhibited similar behavior to that examined in Hart's article is when she slapped the prince to prove her point and tore up the money that he gave her. ... When she was arrested for this offense against the prince, she professed that if she got out she would kill (Nawal, 111). ...

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Introduction Ah, how beautiful and gentle the Sleeping Beauty is, how sweet and innocent and nave and vulnerable Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White are! How wonderful it is to be rescued by Prince Charming, or a powerful, axe-wielding woodcutter! How romantic, how convenient, how great it is for...

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Prince Humperdinck "was shaped like a barrel [and] walked like a crab," the complete opposite to the typical idea of the handsome prince, and Buttercup was "barely in the top twenty, and that primarily on potential, certainly not on any particular care she took of herself." ...

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Cromwell had boasted that he would make Henry VIII the richest prince in Christendom; and the monasteries, with their direct dependence on the pope and their cosmopolitan organizations, were obstacles to that absolute authority of the national state. ... He negotiated the king's marriage to Anne of Cleves as a means of securing the North German princes as allies against the Catholic Holy Roman emperor Charles V. ...

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