How Does Simone Wei's View Of Social Inequality

William Shakespeare states, in his play "King Lear," that "so distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.” Shakespeare simply suggests what men should do in order to demolish the inequality that happens to everyone, as well as one's values and opportunities. As like Shakespeare, a lot of different authors and writers utilize their pieces of literature as a tool to oppose the inequality which exists in every society, so does Simone Weil. She witnesses a lot of unfairness in her lifetime that pursuits the author to form her belief about equality which later reflect on her writing. "Equality" is one of the texts that Simone Weil focuses on the idea of unequal abilities of men that creates variable social levels by identifying two

The author offers an example of the sons of a farm laborer and a minister to discuss the inequality of the human's value. She portrays the picture where the sons switch places for each other, the result is that it is "very dangerous degree of social constraint" (Weil 572). By constructing an image so that the reader can clearly witness social value often comes from a man's paycheck, Simone Weil communicates that all men deserve equal respects. Furthermore, Joseph Stiglitz also contributes to the idea of inequality by pointing out the unfairness in the economy and the government, which furthers suggests that society tends to diminish one's equal opportunity. He explains how a man can take other's opportunity to gain his own benefit. The author emphasizes that a man can either "create wealth" or "take wealth away from other" to make himself wealthy, as like a man can make his own opportunity or take it away from other (Stiglitz 597). By explaining how unfair the society can be through his text in order to help the audience realize how the equality is important, Joseph Stiglitz argues that every man must have equal opportunities in life. Besides, Andreas Teuber and Elizabeth Hardwick, also agree with Weil's idea that all men are equal through their

The author analyzes the way the Simone Weil thinks about equality. She exposes that "equality, for Weil, 'is 'a certain kind of attention'" and a way of "looking at ourselves and others" (Teuber 223). By constructing the text to make the reader questions himself about how is equality virtue, Andreas Teuber simply suggest Weil's point of view that equality is one of the principles of respecting others. Moreover, Elizabeth Hardwick describe about Simone Weil's background, which furthers illustrates Weil's form of equality. The author writes that Weil was born during Hitler time, and she witnessed many injustice, so that she concentrates on "human soul," and "incorporate the pain and fatigue" as her nature (Hardwick 85-86). By addressing the background information to assist the audience to understand more about Simone Weil, Elizabeth Hardwick asks the reader to seek for the persuasion that Simone Weil has to fight for an equality society. Additionally, Yannis Ioannides and Ryuzo Sato provide the study that allows the reader to take a step closer to understand Stiglitz's point of