Utopia Vs Machiavelli's The Prince
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia presents a more justified stance on the role of the government and the authority of a ruler compared to Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, because More’s policy emphasizes that the government is for the people, and people are a product of their ruler. A message conveyed in The Prince states that it is better to be feared than loved. Machiavelli’s negative perception on human nature leads to ineffective policies because he inaccurately views men as “ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, and covetous” who “have less scruple in offending one who is beloved than one who is feared, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which...is broken at every opportunity for their advantage” (Machiavelli). He uses a metaphor,