Drama (Option 1): An Enemy of the People - Henrik Ibsen

Elective English · Chapter 3 · II. Drama

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Henrik Ibsen's life and the realist 'problem play' in nineteenth-century Norway
Acts I-II: the discovery of contaminated Baths and the first clash between the Stockmann brothers
Acts III-V: the newspaper's betrayal, the public meeting and Dr Stockmann's isolation
Characters: Dr Thomas Stockmann, Peter Stockmann, Hovstad, Aslaksen, Morten Kiil, Petra and Mrs Stockmann
Themes: truth versus public opinion, the individual against the majority, corruption, environment and democracy
Dramatic devices: irony, satire, symbolism and personal response to the play