Purchase Solution

An Enemy of the People study notes

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

1. Explain the title An Enemy of the People. To whom does this title refer and why is this character an enemy of the people?

2. How would you describe the relationship between Petra and Dr. Stockmann? Is Petra's occupation and belief system like the majority of women in her society? Explain

3. What was easy to understand and what was difficult in relation to the social and cultural context and issues in the text?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

600 words of informal notes offer some study guidance for the play, An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen.

Solution Preview

Welcome warmly to BrainMass! Please rate 5/5 for my sample ideas to guide you. My response is comprised solely of brainstorming to give you some food for thought to launch your own research, essay, or further work.

1. I regard the title to infer that Dr. Stockmann, in his fervent and highly unethical quest about, as actually the people's "enemy" in the sense that his uncompromising attitudes and actions make him a rival in his corrupt agendas. Much like the polluted spa, he, too, is polluted with his ideologies and fake facades. The fact that a doctor would play a role and actually avert the spread of disease is quite heinous and villainous for sure, marking him as an apparent "enemy" indeed morally, humanistically, professionally, etc. By suppressing the discovery of contamination in the ...

Solution provided by:
Stacy Shaneyfelt, MA
Education
  • BS , Slippery Rock University
  • MA, Slippery Rock University
Recent Feedback
  • "thk u"
  • "Thank you. Posted one more.. if you are online pls help. "
  • "thk u"
  • "thk u"
  • "thnk you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Symbolism in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

The quiz will identify several potential symbolic motifs in Coleridge's famous poem. It will stimulate the student to consider possible topics for essays. Furthermore, it will provide a brief review of some of the symbolic content of the poem.

Fallacies - Academic and Research Writing

This quiz discusses the different variations of fallacy and how they come into play in writing.

The Basic Components of Writing

Knowledge of the basics of writing is necessary for student essays at all levels. This quiz will test your knowledge on the basic components.

Literary Elements

Quiz yourself on basic literary elements! Understand important terms necessary for ELA!

Developing Your Professional Voice

Linda Bergman, author of “Academic Research and Writing”, outlines several guidelines that are useful to help writers develop their professional voice in writing. This quiz helps students hone in on some of those methods and provides ways that they can easily implement them into their essays.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Imprecatory Psalms

    As such, in matters of obedience to Christ, there will be much more emphasis on the words, actions and teachings of Christ. That being said, the Psalms is a book of prayers expressing ones devotion and worship to an omniscient God.

  • Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Adaptation

    656110 Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan: A Case Study of Adaptation Using "Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan - A case study of adaptation in battle" provided by Richard Kugler, discuss Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan.

  • risks and threats bring a community together

    Our own identities are strengthened by the existence of an enemy 7. Enemies help us to consider ourselves part of "the in group" - the concept of self congratulation. 8.

  • Gender-Selective Terrorism

    Martin (2014) further explains it as follows, "Terrorism directed against an enemy population's men or women because of their gender.

  • Historical knowledge

    438776 Historical knowledge I need guide to write a paper about the importance of history. What would society be without history?Why can it be an enemy? Why can it also provide an advantage?

  • Cold War Era Threats

    Conclude with one question for further study on the Cold War era Start by reading Chapter 2 in Farber's Age of Great Dream.

  • Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil"

    Charles Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" is discussed in 300 words of reader response notes.

  • Loyalists

    This argument works if one claims that war with another country makes that country an enemy & anyone who sides with the enemy will be consider an enemy & a threat to the security & well being of the nation.

  • British Loyalist Example Problem

    This argument works if one claims that war with another country makes that country an enemy & anyone who sides with the enemy will be consider an enemy & a threat to the security & well being of the nation.

View More Related Solutions