An Enemy of the People is a morality play in rebuttal of Victorian community values. Its hero, the doctor Thomas Stockmann, attempts during the play's course to convince his Norwegian hometown to pursue an expensive solution to their dangerously contaminated baths, the source of much tourism revenue. While Stockmann had universal support in the creation of the baths, his erstwhile supporters turn on him when the town's financial wellbeing is threatened. The play is a sharp critique of Victorian morality and the idea of consensus-based correctness.
The term freethinking is used often in the play Almost all the characters except for Aslaksen and the mayor claim to be freethinkers it is important to note which of them sticks by their claims and to see exactly what the term freethinking means in a closely knit democracy The mayor raises a number of solid complaints against Dr Stockmanns proposal to fix the baths It is easy to root for the doctor and to see the mayor as a corrupt politician but it is not Ibsens intent to create a play of good
William Shakespeare Coriolanus Many of Shakespeares literature plays have characters that are filled with characteristics like pride affection ambition greed and anger to develop them into tragic figures Shakespeare creatively uses characteristics like these along with literary terms to illustrate how his characters are full of tragic flaws In Coriolanus Shakespeare translates the character Coriolanus into a tragic figure by emphasizing on his ambitious attitude and by using creative metaphors
The novel 1984 story of a totalitarian society which is controlled by a character known as Big Brother Big Brother has the ultimate power over the people in society He controls the minds of the inviduals In this dictatorial society it is a man by the name of Winston Smith who stands out He realizes that Big Brother makes everything go his way He also has realize that Big Brother has the ability to change everything as he pleases even the past As the novel begins Smith is just as every other per