Inspirational real character

We started this week by presenting a real character’s life story that could be used as an inspiration for our project.

My choice was Niccolò Machiavelli. On his most well known work “The Prince” he wrote about the ways powerful man had gained and preserved power. He did not consider morality at all when we wrote it; he had a very un-emotional point of view about it, separating politics from ethics. And I liked also the less know fact about his private life – when living at San Casciano he used to dress up in his most elegant clothes in the evenings just to go to his library and read famous works from the past; he imagined himself talking to the writers, and from the knowledge he received from these meetings he gathered the material to write “The Prince”.

Other students presented:

• “A Man” – life story of someone who because of not being able to build strong family ties with his own children, in the end of his life is suffering from loneliness.
• Madame (Helena) Blavatsky – related to the Theosophical society and spiritism.
• H.P. Lovecraft – author of supernatural fiction.
• Joan of Arc - heroine of France, her visions from God helped her to guide the French army to defeat the English.
• Jussi – a man appears to be suffering from amnesia. How to know if his stories are truthful? His twin brother helps to fill in the gaps.
• "The Turk" - a chess playing machine, an early robot, with a figure of a Turk on it which toured Europe defeating most opponents. In the end it was said there was a real person in the box.