Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780486406572ISBN:0486406571
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Norwegian. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 96 p. Dover Thrift Editions. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781566637275ISBN:1566637279
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Tight binding, pliable, little edge wear, some underlines. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 138 p. Plays for Performance. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Date Published: 2007-07-25
ISBN-13:9781566637275ISBN:1566637279
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
"In "Enemy of the People," a doctor worries that the local tourist attraction, a mecca of warm baths, is polluted. When authorities keep covering up a cholera epidemic, the doctor writes a letter to the editor and the paper refuses to publish it. The rest of the play is about how he keeps standing up to authorities and ranting about "the tyranny of the majority," arguing that the overwhelming majority of people is dumb and suppresses the ideas of the intelligentsia. Although he expects his neighbors to champion his courage, instead they turn on him and make him "an enemy of the people."
This play is not as good as Hedda Gabler, Doll's House or Ghosts. It seems contrived. You have to suspend your common sense to believe, for example, that no one but the doctor notices the epidemic, and that no one worries about getting it themselves. However, Ibsen is raising questions relevant to our times about how governments work to suppress the voices of dissent. In that way it's a worthy effort that makes you think."
"Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is more an idea than anything else. The play was the author's response to the public outcry that his previous work, Ghosts was met with. Ibsen was deeply pained and penned down this particular play that stressed on how the majority is more often than not, always wrong. The exchanges are interesting, but it's obvious that the author was writing it to make a point . I didn't enjoy it all that much as a play. It starts off well and then just meanders a lot. In Ibsen's two plays that I've read, the narrative is too obviously constructed to propogate an idea. I didn't like that."
"I'm at once reminded of my college studies in epidemiology, where John Snow discovered the source of cholera being contaminated waters. I wanted to scream at the people to listen to the doctor. He knows what he's talking about.
And how true it is that just because the masses agree on something, doesn't make it right.............there are definitely more idiots in this world than intelligent people. Or maybe there are a few more intelligent people, but they choose to act like idiots for reasons of their own devise - greed, popularity, guilt......The right decisions and popular choices are not always one and the same and it absolutely takes a strong man or woman to stand by the right choice, because there are times when they will be standing alone.
I started out giving this 3 stars, wanting to give it 3.5, but now after railing against the idiots I'm giving it a 4! Take that......you know who I'm talking about!"
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