Read the excerpt from "the royal house of thebes." some hours later, creon in the palace was startled by a shout, "against your orders polyneices has been buried." he hurried out to be confronted with the guards he had set on the dead body and with antigone. "this girl buried him," they cried. "we saw her. a thick dust-storm gave her her chance. when it cleared, the body had been buried and the girl was making an offering to the dead." "you knew my edict? " creon asked. "yes," antigone replied. "and you transgressed the law? " "your law, but not the law of justice who dwells with the gods," antigone said. "the unwritten laws of heaven are not of today nor yesterday, but from all time." which universal theme is best represented in the excerpt? children make sacrifices for their parents. women can be capable leaders. morality outweighs human laws. parents make sacrifices for their children.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.