Inequality In Shakespeare's King Lear

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

Joseph Stiglitz emphasizes in the economy how a man can take the other's opportunity to gain his own benefit. The author states that a man can either "create wealth" or "take wealth away from other" to make himself wealthy (Stiglitz 597). By explaining how unfair is the economy, as like a one can make his own opportunity or take it away from other, Joseph Stiglitz argues that every man must have equal opportunities in life. Yannis Ioannides and Ryuzo Sato show a study through their text called "On the Distribution of Wealth and Intergenerational Transfers" to support Stiglitz’s idea of wealth distribution in the economy. These writers state “” (Ioannides ). By providing study in their text so that the reader , Yannis Ioannides and Ryuzo Sato also argue that the economy tends to create inequality in opportunity because of competitions of the economy as a whole. Even though Joseph Stiglitz and Simone Weil discuss about equality in different situation, they both agree that there should be a limitation for inequality in the