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Tommy Tomlin
February 09, 2003
Similarities between A Bronx Tale and Niccolo Machiavelli”s The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli’s article called the Prince is a piece dealing a lot with the idea and notion of power. “ The Prince” is a letter to “His Magnificence Lorenzo de’ Medici”, the man in power by a man that wants to be in power himself, Machiavelli. ... The characters in a Bronx Tale that are significant to the ideas of Machiavelli are quite relevant. The movie is about a young Italian child named Cologiero, growing up in the Bronx. ... The following will be written as a back and forth argument as to the merits of these ideas and the ideas held up in the Prince. ... Sonny had the idea, after reading Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince and other readings that the end is somewhat of a justification of the means. ...
In The Prince, Machiavelli speaks about how killing people in defense of your land or territory is acceptable “anyone who finds himself with territory in a region with different customs from those of his hereditary possessions should make himself the leader and protector of neighboring power who is weaker than he is, and should set out to weaken his powerful neighbors”(Machiavelli p12). This is an example of the power that Sonny from A Bronx Tale exhibits. ...
“C”’s big struggle in the movie is between the two methods of the dominant ideas in the Prince and in life in the city.
Approximate Word count = 1218
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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