Book Report The Little Prince Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Translator: Katherine Woods Released: 1943 Sold more than 80 million copies worldwide and considered as an all-time bestseller Are you a deep thinker? If so‚ The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint -Exupery translated by Katherine Woods is a book you should not miss. The prowess of this book is in its metaphors. Each one can be fully appreciated and perceived in ways more than one. This book is an allegory‚ and I love allegories
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The question of whether to be a loved or feared leader can make a person question on which viable choice is the most suitable for a leader. The Prince‚ written by 14th century Italian writer Niccoli Machiavelli answers this question (in chapter 17)‚ the concept of whether to be feared or love is answered by Machiavelli‚ and that is fear. The answer of why fear is the better option is detailed as a set of guidelines which come in the form of authority‚ public emotion‚ and logical reasoning‚ stated
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Machiavelli’s The Prince Throughout The Prince‚ Machiavelli outlines the characteristics needed to be a strong and admirable leader. He explains that personal characteristics such as courage and compassion‚ both being aspects of virtue‚ will earn him praise. However‚ he feels that this expectation is unrealistic and a prince’s first job is to protect the state‚ and having “bad” characteristics is sometimes necessary to reach that goal. That being said‚ in order to protect the state a prince may have to
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of sorts‚ due to the blurred lines between fiction and non-fiction‚ which deeply explores the status of the American Dream during the early 70’s‚ specifically 1971. Thompson states this purpose within the first three chapters of the book in the line‚ “Because I want you to know that we’re on our way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream.” (F&L pg 6) Although Thompson states in the beginning of the book that‚ “Our trip was different
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complex thinker who displayed his thought through several works. There is strong biographical evidence that suggests that the author worked on The Prince and The Discourses at the same time‚ writing the former’s first draft in 1513 and starting to write the latter during the same year. It is obvious then that in order to understand the essence of The Prince we cannot restrict ourselves only to its lines‚ but we must look beyond into Machiavelli’s other writings‚ such as The Discourses‚ to achieve a
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when Florence was a republic‚ free of Medici family rule‚ but when they returned to power in the early 16th century‚ Machiavelli was tortured‚ imprisoned‚ and internally exiled. It was during this time that he wrote his famous Il Principe‚ or The Prince. In it‚ Machiavelli covers many notable topics‚ such as fortune. The idea of fortune was used by the ancient Romans to explain things outside of human agency and free will. Though
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was causing sickness and death. A Prince‚ in an effort to ignore the outside world‚ summoned his closest friends into his castle‚ to lock it up. Prince Prospero is the protagonist of the story; he is an eccentric‚ selfish and fearless person who believes he can outplay fate. The Red Death is the antagonist for the story; it’s silent‚ stalking‚ slow and also fearless. In the story a plague is affecting the country; death and suffering is seen every day. The Prince gathers all his closest friends and
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Prince Hamlet: An Irrational Rationalist Hamlet by William Shakespeare William Shakespeare created many complex characters in his play Hamlet. One of these complex characters being the protagonist‚ Prince Hamlet. Hamlet has many contradictory traits‚ two of them being that Hamlet sometimes thinks rationally‚ and that being overcome by the command left by the ghost of his belligerent father‚ King Hamlet‚ he tends to make irrational decisions. When Hamlet is first introduced to the ghost’s
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The Little Prince What are the possible effects of putting a barrier or limiting the dreams‚ ideas‚ and mindsof children? In the short story‚ The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint- Exupery some of theseideas are handled in a very subtle way. This short story also brushes the topic of education andthe importance and vitality of it.The first topic that this story deals with is the openness of the minds of children and theendless possibilities they posses compared to the narrow-mindedness of adults
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Schlegel Mrs. Carino English 10 Accel 31 October 2011 The Prince‚ the Pauper‚ and Huckleberry Finn Samuel Langhorne Clemens was mostly known by Mark Twain his pen name. He spent the majority of his life on writing and public speaking. Twain is an exceptional writer. One can tell this by how he evokes emotion thorough his writing and catches people’s attention. He does this through different elements in his writing. In‚ The Prince and the Pauper‚ and‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚
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