Post by whitewolfstark on Apr 3, 2016 22:47:27 GMT
The show in the "Chaos is a Ladder" scene likes to portray the conflict between Varys and LF as one between Machiavellianism vs Altruism.
"The Search and Accumulation of Power" vs "The Greater Good"
A good documentary where GRRM is one of the interviewees that discusses Machiavellian politics, and how The Prince influenced ASOIAF, tangentially to discussing the importance of The Prince on Western Civlization: