Just finished reading Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People“, and, wow, I must say, this is definitely one of the better plays I’ve read to date.
It serves as a great commentary on majorities and mob-behavior, but isn’t so dense as to lose its audience in the process of coming to its conclusions. While at first glance it appears to lean towards espousing the rights of the working-man and the downtrodden, Ibsen soon arrives at the larger, more pertinent point, regarding the nature of “truth” in society. Without question, there is a dystopian vein, a-la “Brave New World”—granted, one is a play and the other a novel.
Anyways, my point is that this is a work that is very much accesible, with timeless meanings; I’d recommend it hands down to anyone looking for a good bit of intellectual stimulation.
