An Enemy of the People The medical officer of a small spa town in contemporary Norway, Dr. Stockmann discovers that the baths on which the livelihood of the place depends are contaminated. At first, the citizens praise him as a public benefactor but when they learn that the baths will have to be closed for several years and their incomes affected, they turn against him. When he calls a meeting to explain his views they brand him as an enemy of the people. His patients abandon him, his daughter is sacked from her teaching job and his first reaction is to take his wife and children away. But, as the mob breaks his windows, he decides to stay and try to re-educate the townspeople with his new-found strength—for, as he explains to his wife, ‘The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.” Henrik Ibsen was the foremost of Scandinavian dramatists who gave a new meaning to theatre through his problem plays in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Plays like An Enemy of the People, A Doll’s House, Ghosts and The Pillars of Society shocked and stunned the people with the radical views they espoused and raised storms of protest all over Europe when they appeared. James Joyce described Ibsen as possibly the greatest genius of the moden times.

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