An Enemy of the People

Henrik Ibsen’s play of Dr Thomas Stockmann, medical officer of a Norwegian spa town, who finds that the waters of its new baths are polluted and sets out to make the danger known.

Start reading5 acts, about 32,000 words

Famous quotes

• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Act I, spoken by BillingIn context

  • Leadership
  • Responsibility

• The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

  Act IV, spoken by Dr. StockmannIn context

  • Democracy
  • Freedom
  • Truth & Lies

• The majority has might on its side⁠—unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in the right⁠—I and a few other scattered individuals. The minority is always in the right.

  Act IV, spoken by Dr. StockmannIn context

  • Democracy

Contents

1. Act I
2. Act II
3. Act III
4. Act IV
5. Act V