The Prisoner of Zenda

After reading Machiavelli’s The Prince and watching Shakespeare’s Henry V in class, one begins to notice similarities between the authors’ idea of what a “perfect king” should be. The patterns between the ideal ruler of Shakespeare and the ideal ruler of Machiavelli can be seen in numerous instances throughout this story. For the duration of this essay, I will compare the similarities in both pieces to give the reader a better understanding of how Shakespeare devised his view of what a “perfect king” should be.

The knight is accompanied by his squire, Jöns, as they go back to the knight’s castle to be reunited with his wife. Throughout their journey, they come across various characters and people in the village who are struggling amidst the impending death brought about by the Black Plague.

Villefort was the prosecutor. He had an affair with Danglar 's wife and they had an illegitimate child together. The supposedly buried it alive years earlier. Villefort 's wife Heloise is devoted to her son Edward. Villefort 's daughter from his first marriage is named Valentine. She is also in love with Maximillian Morrel, the son of the captain who helped Edmond earlier. Heloise has been posoning Valentine so that her son will inherit everything (she actually poisons and tries to poison a lot of people, but Valentine is the only one that is very important to the plot). Edmond has been slipping Valentine an antidote though so that when she "dies" is will only be a sleep from which she will awake, in very Romeo and Juliet fashion. Danglars has been trying to sell his daughter into marriage with a man that says he is a prince. As it turns out though, the "prince" is actually the illegitimate child that was saved by the man who was supposed to bury him. The count sonpored him to come in the disguise of Prince Andrea Cavoralliti. Caderousse, a crook and the only person who helped that did not beomce rich later, tried to blackamail Andrea. He then kills Caderousse. Charges are then brought against him, Villefort admits in court that he is the father. He tries to flee with his wife and son (Valentine is already "dead") only to find that his wife poisoned herself and her son. He then goes mad and

It was a normal day in the castle of Goranson. All the townspeople were tending to their work when an explosion made a loud sound that ran throughout the castle. Townspeople stood there shocked as the castle stood in silence. After the seconds of silence another loud explosion shook the castle followed by arrows flying throughout the castle and vikings screaming as they charge in. Everyone ran to get to safety and the vikings never followed. They only had one mission, to get the king and destroy the castle. When all the noise had stopped and all the screams were silenced the townspeople went to look outside to see that the castle was all burnt down. One farmer had said “Quick find the king”. They all rushed into various buildings only to find the king was not there.

However, one of the things that made him a lunatic was how he acted in front of tons of people. As spoken before, his world has turned on him because of everything happening in his life. His dad has been brutally murdered and his uncle known as the malicious Claudius who married his unhappy mother became the king of Denmark. Later on he encounters a ghost who tells him who he is and how he died sadly. The story about how the eerie ghost died was about the superior king sleeping by a beautiful garden and suddenly a vicious snake poisoned him. Furthermore, it was the evil man who wears the bright crown and rules Denmark. After he found out that the creepy ghost was his mighty father, he wanted to avenge his dad. Due to this, he had to murder his cruel uncle because he was the person who killed his innocent father.

When Katsa fishes him out, she and Bitterblue dress the wound in his shoulder, slump him over a horse, and set out for the king was not dead and the only one who could kill him was knocked out.

In resposnse to the fatal wounded Grendel, his mother go to the kingdom palace and take a life

At the plantation, NED, an angry White Man, whips NINA, a Black former slave. Black Raven and Captain Early arrive with the dead men. Nina is devastated. One of dead men is her husband.

During the battle Daniel is shot in the chest. Newt takes him back to the doctors where he is denied help because they are only helping captains and officers due to the overwhelming amount of bodies. Daniel ends up succumbing to his injuries and dies later that day. Following his

While Catherine and Frederic Henry were first starting to fall in love, Frederic had to go out to the front lines. He had to help bring back the wounded during the attack. While he was talking to his men about how they are going to undergo the task at hand, all of a sudden they were bumbed.

She is the mayor's wife and allows Liesel to read the books in her library. When she first meets Liesel she does very little because of the death of her son. Later she shows concern and compassion towards Liesel.

Zai knew there were without a doubt more fish in the sea than the two girls that had just invaded Kyle's truck that were more stupid. They were annoyances, like little flies that buzzed in in the ear in a quiet room. They'd been driving all day this was the last thing they needed. Not to mention Kyle still was the last person they wanted to fuck with. Their voices, giggles, posture, presence all annoyed her. They were obnoxious children, not yet girls and no where soon to be women and it annoyed the living shit out of Azairah. Though the minute the blonde turned to smack whatever she had left of an ass Azairah snorted, trying to hold in her amusement. So attractive. Any guy (who thought with their dick) would have fallen for that. Except Kyle.

escaped from the them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth… The murderous mark of the fiend’s

Cora gets Robert to agree with anything Norwood says to him but Robert says he will try to beat him. When they meet, Norwood tells Robert that he will address him as a black man. Robert says he is Norwood's son, and Norwood keeps denying to Robert that he has no father. The two fight, and Robert strangles Norwood to death. Cora tells Robert to run to the swamp but the she runs into two white men who are coming to see Norwood. They give chase to find Robert. Cora continues to talk to Norwood as if he were living. She keeps telling him to get up off the floor and stop pretending to be dead. It seem as though she was losing her mind. The slaves realize that they are free since their master is

The character of the Duke is portrayed by Shakespeare as a very complex, hypocritical and contradictory character. To many critics, he is conveyed as a Machiavellian Prince, using others for his own political ends, and to some critics, a God-like figure, testing the pathology of power in Vienna. Despite these two polar opposites the character is nethertheless a character of ambivalence. Contradiction is one of the main themes of the play, as is appearance versus reality, law versus grace and justice versus mercy. The Duke never lets go of the puppet strings, pulling events and manipulating other characters in the play. Vincentio's motives for influencing the events are controversial; it has been argued that the Duke enjoys watching others