An Enemy of the People
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All Themes Power and Public Opinion Truth and the Media Women, Family, and Duty Individualism vs. Authority Class Systems
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All Characters Dr. Thomas Stockmann Katherine Stockmann Petra Stockmann Peter Stockmann Morten Kiil Hovstad Billing Captain Horster Mr. Aslaksen
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An Enemy of the People

by

Henrik Ibsen

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The Baths

An Enemy of the People portrays a Norwegian town that has just built, at great expense, a complex of baths that will attract visitors and invalids (at the time, thermal baths were thought to cure…

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