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Machiavellianism (Psychology) in literature

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Their ruin! Hence I will excite their minds : mind reading and Machiavellian intelligence in Milton's Satan and Shakespeare's Cassius, 2017

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Identifier: b7717405
Introduction [excerpts] In the case of [John] Milton's [character] Satan and [William] Shakespeare's [character] Cassius, [Professor Blakey] Vermeule's ToM [Theory of Mind] scholarship exposes how similarly Satan and Cassius use their mind reading capabilities on their victims (Eve and Brutus). Cassius and Satan both use mind-reading "imitation" to degrade a ruling system and build the victim up to make their minds [sic] act towards rebellion. We see that Satan degrades...
Dates: 2017