Reading: "The Prince" by Machiavelli - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm
Please read the following chapters:
-Chapter 3/III (CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES)
-Chapter 18/XVIII (CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH)
- Chapter 25/XXV (WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS AND HOW TO WITHSTAND HER)
Prompt:
- We can use Machiavelli's writing in The Prince to provide convincing evidence that the Renaissance contained the origins of modernity. Choose one reason why this is so and support your analysis with direct quotations from the text.
In a brief paper, you must focus on a very specific argument. Your paper should be well-organized, contain a thesis, and include direct quotations for evidence.No sources outside the assigned reading should be included in your writing. Doing so will earn an automatic zero.***
Instructions:
- One-page analysis of the readings should be narrowly focused on an insight that the student is able to explore in detail. In a very short paper, the topic must be very specific in order to allow room for a detailed exploration.
- The purpose of this assignments is to take the place of a classroom conversation. Students are therefore encouraged to contribute a meaningful insight that is unique to them (one voice in a conversation) and not a generic review of the reading.
- Exceptional work (A quality) critically, substantively, and directly engages the assigned reading. It contains no grammar or punctuation mistakes and is clearly written.
- All reasonable, evidence-driven analyses are welcome. Interpretations can be diverse. As in the essays, credit is given to well-reasoned argument that accurately engages the historical material under discussion.
Please note that the goal in this analysis is for you to pursue a very specific claim (thesis). The goal is not to provide a generic summary. Consider your short essay to be one small piece of a longer essay, or one contribution in a group discussion. You will have room for only about two body paragraphs, so the scope should be small. A smaller scope gives you the opportunity to dig into it with depth, a very good intellectual exercise. - Use direct quotes from the reading ONLY.