Abigail Adams Academy
Follow Us!
  • Home
  • Scholar Moms
  • About
  • Blog
  • Study of Freedom

Mistborn (Sanderson) & The Prince (Machiavelli)

11/20/2024

0 Comments

 
This time after reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson I decided to read The Prince by Machiavelli.   I have to say that reading a book that is based on having a tyrannical government and then The Prince really helps you connect better to ideas.   This was not my idea.  TJEd High has their reading program set up to read these two books together, so I was curious.   The government in Mistborn lines up with several ideas that Machiavelli addressed in his writings.  

Mistborn is a story about Revolutionaries (although they did not start as revolutionaries) who end up over throwing a very old government that was repressive to the common people and created slaves out of most of the population (even those that were considered nobles).   We can see the corruption, suffering, destruction and power struggles of the people in general.  But when the country as been ruled this way for centuries the people are accustomed to it with no real effort on doing something different because revolution seems impossible to the people, yet a small group of determined people end up succeeding at bringing down their ruler.  

Now they have to re-establish a government.  Machiavelli says this: "there is nothing more difficult in taking hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things". (p. 9)  What will Brandon Sanderson do with the rest of the series?  Are they good ideas or not?  
0 Comments

    Author

    Abigail Adams Academy is created by moms for those seeking their own education.

    Michele Dale runs Abigail Adams Academy with the help of some amazing people like you.

    Archives

    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    July 2023
    March 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    November 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    September 2019
    March 2019
    November 2018
    April 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Copyright: Abigail Adams Academy, 2015