There was one decision that Dr. Thomas Stockmann made in the past that affected him in the present. That decision was finding out that the bathhouses were polluted. After Thomas got the results back from the lab, they showed an increase in pollutants in the water. This decision affected him negatively in society. Henrik Ibsen uniquely explains the difficulties that Dr. Stockmann faced throughout the play. Dr. Stockmann was betrayed by his brother, loses his medical career, and was perceived as an enemy toward the townspeople. Dr. Stockmann went through a lot to get his point across to the community. Dr. Stockmann’s discovery of the polluted water in the baths led to his brother betraying him. Peter admits that he does not want the public to …show more content…
Stockmann had eventually become an enemy toward the townspeople. His brother and friends betrayed him at the town hall meeting. Hovstad stated, “A man must be a public enemy to wish to ruin the whole community” (64). Dr. Stockmann tried to convince the community to believe him and not the others that betrayed him. “What does the distraction of a community matter, if it lives on lies” (64). Thomas pointed out that the community leaders had been lying the whole time. The community took the mayor’s side; the mayor convinced them that Thomas was causing nothing but harm to the community. A vote was conducted to see if Dr. Stockmann was a threat. Aslaksen collected the votes and said, “By the votes of every one here except a tipsy man, this meeting of citizens declares Dr. Thomas Stockmann to be an enemy of the people” (66). After Thomas was declared an enemy of the people, he started getting threats from the community. For example, “From the landlord. Notice to quit…” (68). The Stockmann’s landlord decided to revoke their lease and to try to run them out of town. People were also throwing rocks at the Stockmann’s windows. Also, Petra was dismissed from her teaching position at the local school. “Yes. I have been given notice of dismissal” (69). Dr. Stockmann was also dismissed from the bath’s committee. The community was following the orders of the mayor. The citizens are more of followers than leaders. For example, the landlord said he really didn’t want to revoke the
I am reading Rough Country by John Sandford and I am on page 396. This book is about Virgil Flowers a detective working a murder case in northern Minnesota . He has narrowed down his suspect list to two people and is starting to realize why the killer did what he did and how he did it. Virgil discovered that some people have been withholding information from him and it helps clear up who his number one suspect should be. In this paper I will be questioning and connecting.
...ich “poignantly publicized the earlier evictions […] [but] remained silent in the later removals” (Hines 141). They should have shown enough pride to admit the effects of their smear campaign.
In the book In Cold Blood the people of Holcomb and other friends of the Clutter family are deeply affected by the murders. The people in the town perceive the Clutters as the family “least likely” in the world to be killed. Rejecting the idea that the killers were strangers, many of them become suspicious of everyone and anxious about their own safety in the company of their neighbors. According to Truman Capote, the author, it is the first time the community of this part of Kansas have had to undergo the “unique experience of distrusting each other” (page 88).
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On the contrary, people were so desperate for information, they were grasping at any leads and ideas they could possibly find. As soon as the citizens of Holcomb found out about the murder, people would go out of their way to gossip about it. “’Since the trouble started, we’ve been doing all the business we can handle,’ Mrs. Hartman said, gazing about her snug domain, every scrap of which was being sat or stood or leaned upon…’It’s time for everyone to stop wagging loose tongues’ Because that’s a crime, too- telling plain-out lies. But what can you expect? Look around you. Rattlesnakes. Varmints. Rumormongers. See anything else? Ha! Like dash you do!’” (Capote, 113) The case of the multiple murder by Hickock and Smith justifies its telling all on its own. Truman Capote wasn’t the only one telling this story- it was the two hundred and sixty people who populated Holcomb and whoever else heard of the tragedy. Holcomb was a small, religious, and old fashioned town in the middle of Kansas. The elite of the town were all prominent religious people. Everyone knew everyone, no one locked their doors at night- until all of a sudden a well-known and uniformly loved family is violently murdered. Suddenly a neighbor wasn’t a neighbor anymore. The populace conformed to a general atmosphere of distrust and
Citizens of Holcomb were shocked and stricken with panic. Schools closed the next day, so kid could attend the funeral. Gossip circulated the town, rumors of a hired killer. This murder was a turning point for the town of Holcomb, this crime threatened the towns record of a peaceful
Dick Hickock stood motionless, watching as his companion, Perry Smith fired his shotgun into the heads of each member of the Clutter family, sending blood and brains splashing against the wall. What would drive a man to do this? With a cold-blooded fire in his eyes, Perry moved from one person to the next, splattering the country house with brain matter. This terrible
This is an early dramatization of something we know better a century later: the difficulty of translating medical scientific knowledge into political action. Ibsen's well-intentioned blustery doctor heroically fails. This is partly because the local democratic processes are quite cynical (powerful people prevent him from getting his information to the citizens). Dr. Stockmann also suffers from a professional blindness that keeps him from understanding how anyone could possibly disagree that his scientific "truth" (he uses the world frequently) requires rebuilding the town's waterworks. He is a classic case of virtue-based ethics sacrificing outcome for principle.
There are a few possible reasons why the townspeople conformed and turned against the doctor. However, I have come to the conclusion that the most likely reason for their behavior was because of his brother’s influence on the townsp...
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I recognized that our playwright’s wanted the characters to emulate their values and outlooks they believed in. We learned that social forces like dishonesty, corporate control, and environmental concerns all played a part in the play Urinetown. As a result of the unfair rate hikes and water taxes the Amenities were forced to revolt. The dark community eventually overthrew the powers that be and started fresh with no restrictions. For a time the people lived happily, but an overuse of resources would be their fate soon enough. They were always doomed.
It had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen. It was experiencing a spasm of virtuous reaction, quite as lawless and ungovernable as any of the acts that had provoked it. A secret committee had determined to rid the town of all improper persons. This was done permanently in regard of two men who were then hanging from boughs of a sycamore in the gulch, and temporarily in the banishment of certain other objectionable characters. I regret to say that some of these were ladies.
The Mayor in the play had to ignore the truth because of money. Money played a big role in which motivated the Mayor to ignore the situation of the Baths and also ending up in a conflict with Doctor Stockmann. Since the town gained it major income from the Baths, the Mayor didn’t want to expose the public of the truth. When he says, “Oh, the public has no need for new ideas. The public gets on best with the good old recognized ideas it already has” (Ibsen, 94), he’s being very greedy and saying that it’s better to hide the truth because the people will get mad and try to fix the problem. However, fixing the problem costs a lot of money and the Mayor’s extremely concerned with money and reputation. He didn’t want to put time and money in fixing the pipe in the Baths so he just chose to hide the truth and threaten the public with the increase of tax. Therefore, since the Mayor’s position is a leading, responsible one, he buries the truth in order to protect the success of the Baths.
Sometimes, there are some books that have such intriguing characters in them, that captivate the reader, and make him wonder. Such character is Dr. Stockmann from ‘An enemy of the people’, by Henrik Ibsen. However, to understand the complexity and richness of this character, first one must know the plot of the story. Dr. Stockmann is a doctor that lives in a Norwegian city, whose main attraction are the ‘Baths’. They bring a lot of money to the city, but he is not certain of their healthy quality. So he makes a research and finds out that the ‘Baths’, as he had suspected, are unhealthy for the people. Then, he decides that the right thing to do is inform his townspeople of the polluted water, and protect them. However as it turns out, not everyone is in favor of this discovery, especially his brother, the mayor, who successfully turns everyone against him. Throughout this ‘battle ‘between him and the town, and the way he handles the situation, some traits of Dr. Stockman’s personality, come out. As he is presented in the book, Dr. Stockmann is naïve, selfish and moral.
“That was all I needed, I'd made a contact, and it was as though his voice was that of them all. I was wound up, nervous. I might have been anyone, might have been trying to speak in a foreign language. For I couldn't remember the correct words and phrases from the pamphlets. I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us-approach.