Dr. Stockmann, a Medical Officer attached to the Council overseeing the Baths project, brushes everyone the wrong way when he sticks to his view that the whole project is a ‘whited sepulchre’; a contaminated source of disease and corruption. His obstinacy pits him against all the political and democratic forces in the town.
The play is a clash of ideas that succinctly lays bare the hypocritical underbelly of the modern society, and how truth and integrity are trampled underfoot in the name of democracy.
An Enemy of the People explores political and environmental issues in the Norwegian society of the 1880’s in a manner that depicts the true state of affairs in any society of the modem world.
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