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The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 08 (of 11)

Chapter 5: CHARACTERS.
By Henrik Ibsen
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Two plays are paired here. In the first, a town’s medical officer discovers that the new public baths are contaminated and, when he insists on disclosure, faces political manipulation, press betrayal, and communal hostility that test the costs of truth. The second concerns an idealistic returnee who unsettles a comfortable household by exposing past compromises and hidden sufferings, as a wounded wild duck becomes a central symbol of shattered illusions and the moral complexity of human self-deception.

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

(1882)

CHARACTERS.

  • Doctor Thomas Stockmann, medical officer of the Baths.
  • Mrs. Stockmann, his wife.
  • Petra, their daughter, a teacher.
  • Eilif
    Petra     }their sons, thirteen and ten years old respectively
  • Peter Stockmann, the doctor’s elder brother, Burgomaster[5] and chief of police, chairman of the Baths Committee, etc.
  • Morten Kiil,[6] master tanner, Mrs. Stockmann’s adoptive-father.
  • Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.”
  • Billing, on the staff of the paper.
  • Horster, a ship’s captain.
  • Aslaksen, a printer.

Participants in a meeting of citizens: all sorts and conditions of men, some women, and a band of schoolboys.

The action passes in a town on the South Coast of Norway.