About this title: This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at GCSE level. The complete, original text is accompanied by an introduction, activities for before, during and after study, as well as notes. Arthur Miller's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play reminds us that telling the truth can be a dangerous act. When the idealistic ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. G+. Book has slight curl, cover shows little wear, name inside front cover, lightly tanned pages appear unmarked. Text in English. Penguin Plays. read more
Binding: Trade Papeback
Publisher: Penguin, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
Description: As New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Nineteenth printing trade paperback, Penguin. As New. Smooth spine and covers. Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press,, New York:
Date Published: 1951.
Description: First edition. Miller's adaption of the play by Henrik Ibsen. Very good with some soiling on pages and a stamp on first blank page; in a price-clipped dustwrapper with some soiling, rubbing, a few closed tears, and very shallow chipping. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: publisher's cloth in dust jacket.
Publisher: 1951, The Viking Press
Date Published: Arthur Miller's Adaptation
Description: New York: A fine copy in a very near fine jacket with a touch of use to the extremities of the spine and some very minor soiling to the back panel. 125 pp. 8vo, read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 11/17/1977
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
Description: Fair. 0140481400 SOFTCOVER, PAGES ARE FAIR READING CONDITION, EXTERIOR HAS SOME WEAR, NO HI-LIGHTING/UNDERLINING, BINDING TIGHT, STILL USEFUL. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140481402ISBN:0140481400
Description: G. 0140481400. Slight edgewear, sticker on front cover, sticker ghost on rear cover. Interior clean, binding tight.; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 125 pages; Plays kvk orange/black & white partcat. 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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