Machiavelli and the Art of Dictatorship: Lessons from Dystopia

• In Event: Literature and Film as Shaping Politics

Brief Overview

Machiavelli offers advice for maintaining power that applies to absolute governments in dystopian literature. I examine the extent to which several such governments follow or ignore Machiavelli’s advice, and the consequences for that government.

Author

• Michael J. Faber, Texas State University