Read this passage from chapter 5 of The Prince. There are, for example, the Spartans and the Romans. The Spartans held Athens an
d Thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. They wished to hold Greece as the Spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. So to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. What organizational structure does Machiavelli use to develop the central idea in this passage
The type of organization structure Machiavelli uses int he passage is: compare and contrast.
Explanation:
In the passage we are analyzing here, Machiavelli first establishes that he will talk about Spartans and Romans. That being done, he initially offers information only about the Spartans. Then, he moves on to offer information about the Romans, comparing their actions and decisions to those of the Spartans. This is a typical compare and contrast structure, more specifically a block structure. All information about one of the elements is offered. Then, all the information about the other elements is offered. The purpose is to find similarities or dissimilarities between them.
