Did a city ruin its chance at success by not listening? According to Dr. Stockman, it did. Dr. Stockman, one of the principal characters in Henrik Ibsen’s, An Enemy of the People, discovers that the town’s primary source of monetary income is the spa, which is located, seemingly unnoticed by the populace, over a cesspool containing many harmful chemicals. After acknowledging his brother’s discovery, Mayor Stockman, Dr. Stockman’s brother, ultimately forbids publishing the find in the town paper. Dr. Stockman, however, is reluctant to allow this discovery to go unforeseen to the citizens. Though a public hearing is attempted to spread the news about Dr. Stockman’s findings, the citizens are not supportive because of many societal issues including: a spineless majority who elect corrupt politicians in a democratic system, both of whom incessantly interrupt Dr. Stockman from finishing his speech. Firstly, Dr. Stockman delivers a speech to the crowd at a town corner about the water at the spa, but when he is interrupted numerous times stating that he is wrong, he implies that the c...
The mayor, a figure supposed to lead and help the city, abuses his power accepts bribes of food from Looper, and eventually makes the decision to live out his days in a small room stacked with food until he dies: “ ‘The mayor has a secret treasure room in the pipeworks.(158)” Because Doon works in the pipeworks, he discovers Mayor Cole’s refuge full of goods from Looper in Tunnel 351, and eventually reports it to the guards. Soon, there is a search out for Doon and Lina, for “spreading vicious rumors.”
In the play, An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen the people are in danger of becoming sick from a contamination at the baths. The baths are a body of water that is a natural spring that has healing properties to it for those who are crippled or have some sort of illness. Because of this, it is the main attraction in the town and the majority of the income is from the baths. The main characters of the play, Dr. Stockmann and his brother and mayor of the town, Peter Stockma...
Henrik Ibsen, who was born in Norway but made his name internationally, was a painter as well as the one of most famous playwrights during the period of Realism. Ibsen’s plays are well-known by the themes of domestic and political issues and conflict in nineteenth century. Scholars call it “Ibsen’s problems play” (Henrik Ibsen, 650). In addition, in Ibsen’s plays, the general topics that are usually discussed are hypocrisy of the society, restriction of women, and the self-sacrifice.
The Mendacious Acts of Mrs.Helmer and Hale Vindictive notions come in various of forms. Whether the notions uprise in a legal or moral sense, the tendency to be “selfless” in a “selfish manner” occurs frequently in the plays “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen and “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell. In both of the theatrical works ,the truth is unveiled ; leading to the uncorrelated duet of Nora Helmer of “A Doll’s House” and Mrs.Hale of “Trifles” ,in both relevance and irrelevance. In the three-act play , “A Doll’s House” , Nora Helmer , wife of Torvald Helmer and acquaintance of banker , Nils Krogstad , commits the atrocious act of forgery in order to claim money from Krogstad for the sake of “love.”
In Lord of the Flies by William Goulding, the boys on the island begin as civilized English kids, but soon turn into a pack of ravaging savages. Many times in the novel the boys forget their moral compass and act in a frenzy of excitement. Jack is the inciting force behind these frenzies, often shouting commands or leading in chants and dances. The boys take these commands and ensue into mob mentality, forgetting their individual thoughts and beginning to think as one. The excitement that takes place when this mob mentality begins causes the boys to do terrible and unthinkable things. In doing so they forget civilization and the threat of punishment, and act as animals. Mob mentality is the responsible for the boys’ decent into savagery.
Henrik Ibsen was born in March of 1828 in the town of Skien, Norway. Ibsen spent most of his young life in poverty. At 16 years old, he moved to the town of Grimstad to apprentice for a future in pharmacy. Although Ibsen did not succeed in pharmacy school, his time spent in Grimstad still had importance because it was here that Ibsen discovered his knack for poetry. After spending several years in Grimstad learning and reading, Ibsen thought it time to head to Christiania. His intensions were to take entrance examinations for University in hopes to start his journey in career in literature.
So, that is why they tried to prove Dr. Stockman an unreliable source, trying to force his “false findings” on the public, and making them suffer. The way Mayor Stockman implemented this was using the newspaper and the public itself. He first went to Hovstad and explained what would happen if this news made the papers, and Stockman offered him a different solution. He suggested they bash his brother, make him look like a terrible man, and hopefully that leads to the public backing us up. Mayor Stockman says he is doing all this for the greater good, but in reality it is affecting everyone poorly. Yes, you are bringing in income for the civilization and it is keeping your community afloat, but it is all coming at a risk. The baths were scientifically proven to be a major health risk causing harm to those who use them. So, by law you are doing something completely wrong. Another thing Dr. Stockman mentions is this idea of majority or ruling by majority. At first, he believed he owned the majority of the people that mattered the most, but quickly lost control of them. These people contributed to his falling and un-credible source of
Social activism existed in this country of the United States of American since its Founding Fathers, and it continues to exist today as American citizens strive for improvement for the future. With this long history, citizens have joined various social movements. Social movements result from the unity of people to strive for a change for certain problems. The gatherings for a change can inspire and can scare the reality that already existing. The struggles for change first must evolve from a person’s resolve. The reasons of why people communicate, collaborate, and go into motion must be understood to further the understanding of why social activism continues to occur. Three theoretical claims have enlighten society
the truth of the hazards that the baths presented before any more people became ill. He
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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.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, is a piece of nonfiction that tackles the rich themes of racism, power, discrimination, and fear. The book follows a narrator that is seemingly always looking for acceptance in every community. However, this text reflects the ideology and reality that all blacks still face in the modern day. That reality is fear of not being accepted and never finding out where they truly belong; hence the title of “Invisible Man”. In Ralph Ellison's, Invisible Man, the narrator experiences invisibility through his humanity, emotional state, and academics.
Aldous Huxley once wrote, “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” This is clearly a statement about public acceptance and tolerance of dissimilar people. Aldous’ beliefs can be seen in his book, Brave New World by two outcast characters, John Savage and Bernard Marx. Bernard and John are both outspoken about their ideas on society, but differ in their actions when faced with temptations.
After reading, "Ibsen 's Motherless Women" written by Ellen Hartman. Hartman tries to make the understanding of how children who grow up without a mother are usually more challenged then those who don’t. They think and live more diverse rather than growing up with a maternal figure, she goes into details about how the characters in his stories are more likely to do what shouldn’t be done, just because the female protagonists grew up motherless. I agree with the observation they made of women because women had it difficult back then already, not imagining the experience of being motherless. For instance a mother guides a child and without that they have to grow up making decisions on their own. Life was more difficult for Nora because she
“Greed is the root of all evil.” A quote from the Bible that describes many plays and stories. The Marxist theory uses a similar outlook on that saying, but it does not convey the message that the quote does. Using the Marxist theory, good can still be done though it typically isn’t. “A Doll’s House” is the perfect example of this theory, and the quote. Its narrative is almost wholly centered on economic status and money. The characters like Nora, Ms. Linde, and Krogstad are primarily main characters because of the money issues they have got themselves stuck into. It leads their actions till the very end of the play up until some of the characters realized that money was controlling their thoughts and actions.