Part A Write down all of the critical questions you hope to answer ahead of time. Then, record your conclusions-along with the supporting text--as you
progress through the reading. The table has sample questions you can use, or you can delete them and use your own. Be sure to include
questions that relate to character development and theme analysis,

Analysis
Textual Evidence
Question
What is the play about?
What are the settings, motivations, or societal
values in which the play was written?
What kinds of literary techniques does the play
use?
Which character(s) shows external character
development?
Which character(s) shows internal character
development?
Where do these common themes show up in
the text?
• fear
• persecution
• power
• control

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.