Answer the following question in an essay of 4-6 pages. Use the
text to support
your interpretations and arguments, citing all references and quotations.
Refer to reading
by page number, please.
Reading is:
“THE PRINCE” Niccolo Machiavelli 2nd edition
What
professor is looking for:
Can you show appropriate understanding of the text?
Can you explain what it means, what the significance of
claims in it are?
Can you analyze reasons for your reaction to claims—why you
agree, disagree, think more can be
said?
Can you show what the implication of your thoughts about
this topic are?
Can you arrange this all in a well constructed argument?
Can you express this well?
Notes
from professor:
First
paragraph: A first paragraph should be a map of the whole paper. It should
start by
saying what the issue is that matters to us.
The body of the paper should
demonstrate what the author says and then support your thesis.
The
conclusion should not repeat what the paper said in a single paragraph. It
should bring the
parts of the body together, but it should do so to achieve
a conclusion about the claim.
Prompt Question:
In Chapter 15, Machiavelli lists several
qualities that a prince is supposed to have and their
opposites.
Machiavelli then says that not all of the ones reputed good truly are. What is
his
standard
of virtue? Which characteristics are truly virtuous in his eyes? Is he right?