Tales There are some similarities between Machiavelli's, "Qualities of the Prince," and Arendt's, "Ideology and Terror." Hannah Arendt's piece deals with governmental leadership using totalitarianism as its backbone. Machiavelli's piece deals with how a prince should properly keep his power over the country in which he rules. There is a link between the unscrupulous manner Machiavelli proposes his prince should act, and the way of totalitarian rule Arendt expresses. In this essay I will be …showed first 75 words of 574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 574 total…on totalitarianism. In many cases it can be seen that Hitler used fear as a means of avoiding hatred by his people, and that he did not worry about being cruel during his time of reign. Using Arendt's view on "natural law," Hitler is justified by the fact that he was neither innocent nor guilty in killing the Jews. He was merely executing a movement of natural law that claimed Jewish people "unfit to live."