Who Is Queen Elizabeth Machiavellian
Queen Elizabeth of England was prime example of a Machiavellian leader. She was both loved and respected by her people, was politically and militarily strong, and sly in advancing her career as the monarch of England and leader of the Anglican church. All of which are examples of a Machiavellian ruler.
In Machiavelli's The Prince there are many things he entails a prince must be in order to gain and maintain power. Firstly, he states that “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” (Machiavelli, 79) because men are fickle and there is no way to guarantee love but fear is a primitive emotion that withstands a man’s fickleness. He further goes on to state that men should be both human and animals, specifically displaying the traits of both a lion …show more content…
This is exemplified as her religious policy wavers between toleration and repression of the different religious groups. Catholics were either executed or accepted according to whom Elizabeth needed to appeal to as the execution of Catholics impressed those who were repressed by her sister, Mary. Puritans and Calvinists were treated much less harshly as the held much of the wealth in Protestant rich cities such as London, so much in fact that England’s economic success depended on them. Queen Elizabeth’s Machiavellian was displayed in the decision to execute Mary I of Scots. Mary of Scots was forced to reside in England with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, due to a public scandal, but Elizabeth’s secretary uncovered Mary’s plot to get rid of Elizabeth and return Catholicism to England, and on February 18, 1587 Elizabeth agreed to Mary’s execution. This execution sparked a war between the English and the Spanish and on May 30, 1587 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, the seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, sent the Spanish Armada, a fleet of 130 ships to England. In the end the British swift ships that became known as “the English
In Machiavelli's The Prince there are many things he entails a prince must be in order to gain and maintain power. Firstly, he states that “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” (Machiavelli, 79) because men are fickle and there is no way to guarantee love but fear is a primitive emotion that withstands a man’s fickleness. He further goes on to state that men should be both human and animals, specifically displaying the traits of both a lion …show more content…
This is exemplified as her religious policy wavers between toleration and repression of the different religious groups. Catholics were either executed or accepted according to whom Elizabeth needed to appeal to as the execution of Catholics impressed those who were repressed by her sister, Mary. Puritans and Calvinists were treated much less harshly as the held much of the wealth in Protestant rich cities such as London, so much in fact that England’s economic success depended on them. Queen Elizabeth’s Machiavellian was displayed in the decision to execute Mary I of Scots. Mary of Scots was forced to reside in England with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, due to a public scandal, but Elizabeth’s secretary uncovered Mary’s plot to get rid of Elizabeth and return Catholicism to England, and on February 18, 1587 Elizabeth agreed to Mary’s execution. This execution sparked a war between the English and the Spanish and on May 30, 1587 Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, the seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia, sent the Spanish Armada, a fleet of 130 ships to England. In the end the British swift ships that became known as “the English