Selfishness and Greed for Power in Politics: A Socio-Educative Reading of Some of Shakespeare’s Plays

Abstract

Humanity is confronted with many socio-political injustices. It often occurs that in a social context people hinder the welfare of others for the sake of personal interest. The selfishness rooted in greed is deeply present in that evil nature of mankind which does not spare his community or himself. Indeed, this situation gives way to the socioeconomic and even political disparities observable worldwide in the development of any community. To solve or collapse such an unfair reality, historical evidence and the reading responses of the plays for that purpose allow us to decipher the author’s dramatization of characters’ actions in the plays under study. They provide us with knowledge that draw our attention on the danger caused by human misconducts which do not favored our personal and collective development as a social entity. This research work aims at urging leaders as well as any actors of development at any position of the scale, to balance the prosperity for the socio-economic and political welfare in the planet.