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34 Henrik Ibsen
daunted. It asserted itself with even greater de
fiance in
"
An Enemy of Society," a powerful
arraignment of the political and economic Lie,
Ibsen s own confession of faith.
DR. THOMAS STOCKMANN is called to the po
sition of medical adviser to the management of
the
"
Baths," the main resource of his native town.
A sincere man of high ideals, Dr. Stockmann
returns home after an absence of many years, full
of the spirit of enterprise and progressive inno
vation. For as he says to his brother Peter, the
town Burgomaster,
"
I am so glad and content.
I feel so unspeakably happy in the midst of all
this growing, germinating life. After all, what a
glorious time we do live in. It is as if a new
world were springing up around us."
Burgomaster. Do you really think so?
Dr. Stockmann. Well, of course, you can t see this
as clearly as I do. You ve spent all your life in this
place, and so your perceptions have been dulled. But I,
who had to live up there in that small hole in the north
all those years, hardly ever seeing a soul to speak a
stimulating word to me all this affects me as if I were
carried to the midst of a crowded city I know well
enough that the conditions of life are small compared
with many other towns. But here is life, growth, an
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