Henrik Ibsen wrote ?An Enemy Of The People? in 1882 in response to criticism and controversy surrounding the subject matter of his previous play ?Ghost,? which was about syphilis.
Some 70 years later, Arthur Miller adapted Ibsen?s original ?Enemy? in response to the ?red scare? hysteria whipped up in the U.S. in the late 1940s.
Someone once wrote that ?An Enemy Of The People? has inspired 85% of all Hollywood film plots. It?s a great topic: The tyranny of the majority is always a danger in a democratic society, and the U.S. has been guilty of unconscionable acts in the name of majority opinion.
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