Leadership in Milton’s Paradise Lost, Cavendish’s Blazing World, and Ot

Leadership in Miltons Paradise Lost, Cavendishs Blazing World, and Shakespe ars Othello and HamletCritical thinkers are the strongest people in the humans non only are they able to form their own opinions, but these individuals are also versatile enough to listen to their counsel for the best advice. They obligate learned when to be flexible and when to be stubbornand theyve realized whos a snake in the grass and who deserves paramount respect. To live happily ever after, or even just to survive, a person must learn from the best. Leaders are no exception to the rule. Whether they come from a royal family, are spontaneously appointed, or are the only ones around and on that pointfore lead by default, leaders must detect and discern the truth, using all of the empiric experience and intuitive senses that mankind has had bestowed upon them. In addition to all their duties, a good leader must be a critical thinker. Simply put, a leaders ability to listen to another opinion sp eaks volumes about their character. In John Miltons Paradise Lost, Margaret Cavendishs Blazing World, and William Shakespeares tragedies of Othello and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, there are a tremendous variety of leaders and counselors who all have different circumstances, yet all may be analyzed through twos super acid themes The measures of innocence verses experience and passion verses reason in leadership positions. Some of the leaders that will be in focus dont eternally play the part. Some arent always so innocent. But if we look at how characters with leadership roles treat their counselwhether those advisors are family, friends, lovers or superiorswe will not simply learn more about the literature we study, but we may apply what we learn to o... ...25.Knight, G. Wilson. The Embassy of Death An Essay on Hamlet. The Wheel of Fire Interpretations of Shakespearian Tragedy. London Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1930. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Portable Machiavelli. Eds. Peter Bo ndanella and Mark Musa. New York The Viking Press, 1979.McAlpine, Alistair. The New Machiavelli The Art of Politics in Business. New York John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998.Milton, John. Paradise Lost. 1674. Ed. Scott Elledge. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. The Tragedies of Shakespeare. Players Illustrated Edition. Chicago Spencer Press, Inc., 1955.Wood, Tanya Caroline. The pass off and Rise of Absolutism Margaret Cavendishs Manipulation of Masque Conventions in The Claspe Fantasmes Masque and The Blazing World. In-between Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism. 2000.