Personal Response of Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen.

I feel that I didn’t like most of the characters, the only one I liked was the Major. He is the only character that I don’t feel is hypocritical, he may be a bad person but he is someone who shows his intentions. Thomas Stockmann is a reckless person who doesn’t have a good objective, he is a person who doesn’t think about his own, he doesn’t think about his family. Hovstad and Aslaksen are extremely hypocritical people who only follow people and are never the leaders. I feel that I didn’t like the plot, we went from two brothers fighting over a bath and then one of them wanting to be a teacher, it’s a story because it could happen, but it is not likely to happen. The setting was in a small town in Norway before the 2000s, in some places it was at the home of the characters, like at Dr. Stockmann’s home, at his studio, and at Captain’s Horsters home. The language is a formal one from the past years that uses too many metaphors, some of them are difficult to understand and that’s why I have to read it twice. I don’t like this language because it is complicated and being a student whose my second language is English it makes it much more difficult to understand it. Some image that were imagined for me was the physique of Peter Stockmann, I imagine him as a slim and imposing man, who has a rather distinguished mustache, he is always dressed in a suit. Another one that intrigued me a lot was Thomas Stockmann’s physique as I feel that he must look like his brother but they are completely different in physique because their personalities are not similar. I also imagine how nice the town in Norway must be as they say it is beautiful, I imagine it is a little old but nice. I feel that the story can be similar to real life because the story talks about how there will always be people with much more power who will manage to manipulate and abuse their power. That there are going to be people who are just going to be followers of the wrong and corrupt one. In life, there will be people who want to improve and make this world a better place but they can’t rise above the people with power because they simply won’t succeed they would lose more than they gain by trying to do good for a cause. I feel that I am a combination of Peter and Thomas. Peter because I am a person who thinks about his family, and has priority in it, but I am not a selfish person and I question moral decisions. I am similar to Thomas in the sense that I always seek to tell the truth and be straightforward with people, sometimes I am a reckless person but I am not self-centered in the fact that I know that we are all alike.

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