You are not mad. Mad is when your cousin ( Bellatrix ) slaughters a hare in front of you‚ eager to see if your resolve would crumble and you’d call her out to be a beast. Mad is when your mother ( Walburga ) wraps her long tapered fingers around your throat and squeezes‚ daring you to spill your bile‚ to oppose her at last just like her failure of a firstborn. Mad is when your betrothed ( Laetitia ) decides to humiliate her sister in front of the Public‚ hoping to see approval glint in two
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The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch is a twisted story full of drama and scandals with each character more complex than the next. It is often simple to pick apart and make assumptions about a novel’s protagonist. In the case of The Black Prince it is clear to see that the main character and first person narrator is in fact a repressed homosexual. Throughout the novel he faces many challenges to his gender and sexuality and although the stories‚ “clown” Francis Marloe suggests this many times during
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The Black Prince is structured as Pearson’s apologia to his editor and friend P.A. Loxias. This allows Murdoch to address an audience directly‚ pausing for philosophical musings‚ without engaging in the post-modern trick of acknowledging the reader. Loxias and Pearson both write forewords to the main text. Pearson and four other characters offer competing postscripts. Two deny Loxias’s existence. This fulfills early premonitions about Pearson’s unreliability as a narrator. The first significant piece
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Define Humanism‚ and write a paper explaining how “The Prince” represents a humanist approach to the art of governing‚ in contrast to the idea of government based on divine authority and Catholic dogma. Humanism is the liberal viewpoints that are based on rational philosophy in the dignity of human beings; affirming their ability and responsibility in leading moral lives of personal gratification that seeks the greater good of humanity. Although humanism has various meanings‚ each constitutes
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The Prince: Analysis Paper Good Qualities of a Leader: A good leader is one who does not promote liberality because liberality makes the leader despised‚ hated and poor. If he is despised by the people‚ the people will arrange a conspiracy against the prince; therefore‚ the prince needs to satisfy the people to some extent (Machiavelli 3). To do this the prince will arm the people and soldiers (5). Nicolo Machiavelli also states another quality that the prince must lack is greed and abuse of
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*Metaphors or Arguments* Metaphors are an important ingredient to speech and argument. It is used to show comparison between two things‚ a way to create new meaning. Niccolò Machiavelli in his book The Prince discuss of social and political along with his creative usage of metaphors. His ideas consist of Medicine‚ the Fox and the Lion‚ as well as The Archer. These are the metaphors that I will be discussing as we go in more debt about Machiavelli and James Kastely thoughts of argument. Machiavelli
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Machiavelli wrote The Prince as an instructional manual for a Renaissance ruler. The Prince is a mixture of practical‚ “real” advice and theoretical‚ “ideal” advice for the ruler operating under the best conditions. If you were about to become the ruler of your own country‚ which parts of Machiavelli’s advice do you think would still apply in the modern world? In your answer‚ explain and justify what advice you would personally keep and what you would disregard as a neophyte ruler. Niccolo
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Summary Why did Niccolo Machiavelli write the prince? He wrote it like a guide. The Prince is an analysis of how to acquire and keep political power. Philosophers wrote it as how it should be‚ but Machiavelli presented it as it is. The Prince begins by addressing to Lorenzo de Medici‚ where Machiavelli tells him that he is seeking favor with the prince by offering him some of his knowledge. Machiavelli proceeds to classify the kinds of states: hereditary princedoms
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“The Prince” originally written for princes and rulers is a book written with monarchies in mind‚ describing how to rule in all different varieties of monarchies; from dynasties to newly developing monarchies. This book also goes into great detail of how to maintain existing monarchies or how to conquer and keep them under your rule. Older monarchies or dynasties are tougher to conquer and keep because if you cannot win the hearts of the people they will rebel to restore power to their beloved
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The Prince Guiding Questions 1. Why did Machiavelli write The Prince? Machiavelli wrote The Prince because he wanted Lorenzo de’ Medici‚ who was the current ruler‚ to be impressed by him and show him that he was intelligent and a useful advisor to him. Machiavelli also wrote it for Princes to read and comprehend how to be successful in power. 2. Name the three major themes of The Prince. (HINT: Look at the chapter titles) One of the major themes in The Prince was Statesmanship and Warcraft.
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