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  Enemy of the people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term enemy of the people (Russian language: враг народа, "vrag naroda") was a fluid designation under the Bolsheviks' rule in regards to their real or suspected political or class opponents, sometimes including former allies.
Close relatives of enemies of the people were branded "relatives of an enemy of the people", which effected in restrictions of their rights.
Since 1937, the ranks of the "enemies of the people" were significantly extended with the Traitor of Motherland Family Members.
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 An Enemy of the People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Enemy of the People is a play written by Henrik Ibsen (1882).
He is taunted and denounced as a lunatic, an "Enemy of the People." In a scathing rebuke of both the Victorian notion of community and the principles of democracy, Dr. Stockmann proclaims that in matters of right and wrong, the individual is superior to the multitude, who are easily led by self-advancing demagogues.
With the entire town pitted against him, Stockmann considers leaving with his family; but he decides to stay and set up a school for poor children in the same hall where he was denounced as an enemy of the people.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People   (479 words)

  
 Enemy of the people
The term enemy of the people (Russian language: враг народа;, "vrag naroda") was a fluid designation under the Bolsheviks' rule in regards to their political or class opponents, sometimes including former allies.
Being branded an enemy of the people automatically meant imprisonment, deportation, or execution, often accompanied by property confiscation.
The extreme treatment of opponents is one of numerous reasons why the Bolshevik regime is identified as totalitarian.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/en/enemy_of_the_people.html   (420 words)

  
 Enemy of the people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
enemy of the proletariat (враг пролетариата;, "vrag proletariata")
In particular, the term "enemy of workers" was formalized in the (Click link for more info and facts about Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code)) Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code).
Since 1937, the ranks of the "enemies of the people" were significantly extended with the (Click link for more info and facts about Traitor of Motherland Family Member) Traitor of Motherland Family Members.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/en/enemy_of_the_people.htm   (622 words)

  
 An Enemy of the People by Yumi Kim
An Enemy of the People by Yumi Kim
In An Enemy of the People, published in 1882, Ibsen launched a scathing attack on the press, the authority and the system of majority rules.
People like Hovstad and Aslaksen are easily swayed as they never stop and think for themselves.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/kim2.html   (907 words)

  
 An Enemy of the People
Similarly, in An Enemy of the People, we learn about Dr. Stockmann's earlier investigations into the problems of the water contamination, his indebtedness to his brother for his job, and the dangerous and virtually criminal cutting of corners that occurred when the town's therapeutic spa was built.
In An Enemy of the People the symbols are the town spa, the toxic wastes from the nearby tanneries, and the concepts of public opinion and the popular majority.
Thus in An Enemy of the People his principal variations are his emphasis on the characterizations of the Stockmann brothers and also his introduction of three sets of villains confronting Dr. Stockmann in the fifth act (the Mayor, Morten Kiil, and Hovstad and Billing).
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And most of the people here are in just the same case--see-sawing and edging first to one side and then to the other, so overcome with caution and scruple that they never dare to take any decided step.
I am going to prove to you, scientifically, that the "People's Messenger" leads you by the nose in a shameful manner when it tells you that you--that the common people, the crowd, the masses, are the real essence of the People.
The kind of common people I mean are not only to be found low down in the social scale; they crawl and swarm all around us--even in the highest social positions.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/aeotp10.txt   (19373 words)

  
 PERSPECTIVES: "Enemy of the people" (03/02/03)
Lenin's Bolsheviks styled themselves as the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and promised "the people" a future of brotherhood and bounty, but first, they said, they had to eliminate all opposition - so-called "enemies of the people," otherwise known as "vermin." There were millions of them.
Once the "enemies" were eliminated, the state could move forward to the "perfect society," where poverty and inequality would be banished.
Failure to achieve that was blamed on the "enemies of the people" who were then put to work building Siberia's infrastructure, where much of the country's lumber, coal, copper, gold and other minerals were located.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/090313.shtml   (1025 words)

  
 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He finds himself in a situation resembling that of Dr. Stockmann in Ibsen's drama, "An Enemy of the People." Dr. Stockmann discovered the municipal baths were contaminated, but good burghers worried about the destructive effects of the truth on the town did not want the doctor revealing it.
There will be a large pool of people not worth bothering about, the American losers in the globalization race for ever cheaper or more capable substitutes in every aspect of manufacturing, marketing, and distributing.
Then there is a large pool of educated, middle-class people, the types who stay at the office twelve hours a day to complete a project and have the benefit of a corporate gym.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1682537   (1663 words)

  
 The Enemy of The People of God   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When the people of God are under the pressure of suffering, God will call an end to that particular struggle and give a period of relief.
He took a sow and had it slaughtered, ripped down the curtain to the holy of holies in the temple, marched in with the sow, and spread its blood all over the holiest place where God would be worshiped.
But he loved the people who would, so much that at one point he was cast to the ground in a daze, and subsequently it made him physically ill.
www.pbc.org /pbc1/dp/zeisler/4707.html   (3650 words)

  
 Enemy of the People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Would you fault Kerry for scaring people if his warnings about a draft were intended to fairly respond to the Administration's untenable twin positions: we will do whatever is necessary to prevail in Iraq, but we will not institute a draft to address the single most needed asset in Iraq - more troops.
The killing of 100,000 innocent people in 18 months is a rate of carnage that matches the barbarity of the "Rolling Thunder" that devastated Vietnam during our last descent into national insanity.
Legislation evinces the will of the majority, the exercise of the political will of the people at a given moment in time, as inconstant and ill-advised as such will may be.
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 Flak Magazine: The Enemy of the People?
John Doolittle, who actually favors lifting all limits on campaign contributions, compared efforts at campaign finance reform to the squashing of ants, the ants presumably being the voices of the American public (an unfortunate metaphor for a guy who would allow corporations and PACs to spend untold millions on direct campaign contributions).
But what seems like naivete is actually a very clever example of postmodern populism, where the political elite invoke things like "the will of the people" and "individual rights" to protect big business and other moneyed interests, the very things that pose the greatest threats to those rights.
In fact, these days it seems the "people" have seemingly very little say in determining what their "will" is. In politics, there is no truth; only power, and those in power can call whatever they want the "Truth" because no one is going to hold them accountable.
www.flakmag.com /opinion/cfinance.html   (572 words)

  
 An Enemy Of The People
Instead of receiving gratitude, he's labeled a trouble making traitor by the fellow townspeople (including his brother the mayor) who are getting rich from the spa and want to sweep the problem under the rug.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is a multi-layered play that was actually written in 1881 by Norwegian poet and dramatist Henrik Ibsen and updated 40 years ago by Arthur Miller to reflect the rampant McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Ibsen based AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE on a newspaper story he had read in the 1800s but didn't write it with environmentalism in mind.
www.lifeofanactor.com /anenemy.htm   (550 words)

  
 An Enemy of the People:Ibsen, Henrik:0486406571:eCampus.com
When the doctor learns that the famous and financially successful Baths in his home town are contaminated, he insists that they be shut down for expensive repairs.
For his honesty, he is persecuted, ridiculed and declared an "enemy of the people" by the townspeople, including some who had been his closest friends.
First staged in 1883, An Enemy of the People remains one of the most frequently performed plays by the writer regarded by many as the "father of modern drama." It follows in the wake of several other works by Ibsen's, including A Doll's House, currently a best-selling Dover Thrift Edition.
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 Arch-enemy Of The People Of God
His constant endeavor is to lead the people of God astray from the Lord and from their covenant of sacrifice.
Paul urges the Lord's people to put on the whole armor of God, that they may be able to withstand the wiles of the Devil.
The answer is that the Lord is supervising the affairs of His people and that He will see that all who are putting their trust in Him shall have opportunities for putting on the whole armor of God.
www.biblestudents.com /htdbv5/r5183.htm   (2283 words)

  
 God Is Greater Than Our Enemy - First, People, Prayer, Angels, Blessing, Change, City, Fear, Financi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Elisha prayed, and the enemy was struck with blindness.
When he was surrounded and outnumbered by the enemy, he was totally calm and unafraid.
Perhaps you have real enemies - hateful people who are trying to destroy you, your reputation, or your family.
christian.adoption.com /faith-based/god-is-greater-than-our-enemy.html   (699 words)

  
 Review: `An Enemy of the People'
t is an enduring bit of theater history that Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in retaliation to the negative reception his previous play "Ghosts" received from the Scandinavian press.
Although he claimed otherwise, Arthur Miller's hands can be seen all over "An Enemy of the People," cutting scenes and eliminating speeches, and generally simplifying Ibsen's complex cocktail of human motivations into a moralizing sermon against the political nincompoops of the day.
"An Enemy of the People" is the story of Doctor Stockmann, a naive do-gooder and scientist who detects dangerous poisons in the nearby springs.
www.princetoninfo.com /200009/00927p02.html   (954 words)

  
 EN11 - R28: An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People starts at 7pm tomorrow at the Rizal Mini-Theater.
There are 4 people unaccounted for in our class.
Based on the initial list, 2 people are watching it on a different date and that's Chris and Ram.
r28.blogspot.com /2004/06/enemy-of-people.html   (115 words)

  
 Steve McQueen's "An Enemy Of The People"
Based on a play written by Swede Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People tells the story of a naive and honest doctor's fight to save the people of the small town he lives in from slow death caused by a polluted water system.
Enemy has been presented much as it would have been on stage, and you should watch it as though you were watching a live theatre production.
Enemy is a good effort at transferring a stage play to film, but not a great success.
www.mcqueenonline.com /aeotphv.htm   (418 words)

  
 Nanny Knows Best: An Enemy of The People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She is the enemy of integration and social cohesion.
A divided society suits Nanny very well; as long as people feel isolated and alone, unable/unwilling to mix with others and work with others for the greater good, Nanny will always be needed to fill that gap in their lives.
Her actions prove that she is the enemy of the people.
nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com /2005/02/enemy-of-people.html   (629 words)

  
 Enemy of the People Guide Sheet
Ibsen wrote from the mid- to late 1800's and is often credited with ushering in the Modem Age of literature.
An Enemy of the People is considered one of his greatest works.
Be able to intelligently comment on who really is the enemy of the people and why.
69.28.13.35 /english/honorseng/Summer%20Assignments/enemy_people_june04.htm   (393 words)

  
 Spectator, The: Enemy of the people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, the three major bombings in the capital in the past fortnight have wrought a strange and radical shift in the usually nonchalant mood of Moscow's unshockable natives.
Corruption scandals caused a brouhaha in the Western press and ruffled feathers in the Russian media and political elites, but didn't cause much of a stir among ordinary people (they had assumed for years that their rulers were crooks).
But what is most interesting are not the ins and outs of the theory itself - more about that later - but the fact that so many otherwise intelligent people are inclined to believe that their rulers could stoop to perhaps the most breathtaking act of political cynicism since the burning of the Reichstag.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199909/ai_n8861723   (1192 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Pinochet: An Enemy of the People
One million people were forced to flee the country and go into exile.
He is truly an enemy of the people--and he should have been tried and punished many years ago.
The forces in the UP put forward that the Allende government represented the "peaceful road to socialism"--and the people were not mobilized to take up arms against the reactionaries and their U.S. backers.
rwor.org /a/v20/980-89/986/pinoch.htm   (1267 words)

  
 In the literary pieces To Kill a Mocking bird , An Enemy of the People, and Julius Caesar theauthors use crowds to ...
In the literary pieces To Kill a Mocking bird, An Enemy of the People, and Julius Caesar theauthors use crowds to develop their themes.
Below is a short sample of the essay "In the literary pieces To Kill a Mocking bird, An Enemy of the People, and Julius Caesar theauthors use crowds to develop their themes.".
In An Enemy of the People, the public went against Dr. Stockmann for fear that they will be blamed for thinking wrongly.
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 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Work must not be the enemy, says Milburn
'People are beginning to see the link between terrorism in Africa and Iraq and the possibility of it on our own streets,' he said.
Howard has emphasised help for mothers to stay at home while their children are young, capitalising on accusations that Labour's linking of childcare to work opportunities is driving mothers out to the office.
But Milburn said work could be underrated: 'It's only a couple of decades ago that all people wanted was the chance of a job.
www.guardian.co.uk /Politics/publicservices/story/0,11032,1350960,00.html   (889 words)

  
 An Enemy of The People (LA)
I did my last shot on Gods And Monsters at 4.00p.m, on what should have been my first day at the National and was at the Tom Bradley International Airport only 4 hours later, with not enough time to dye my film's snow-white hair back to its natural sludge-grey.
London audiences flocked to 'An Enemy of the People' but I've been impressed how strongly my American friends in particular have reacted to the play, which reflects current concerns about big government and corruption in high places.
The story of a poisoned water supply is reminiscent of Polanski's 'Chinatown.' Bryan Singer ('The Usual Suspects' and Apt Pupil) recognised that Ibsen's play was the source for the movie 'Jaws'.
www.mckellen.com /stage/enemyla   (686 words)

  
 kingcountyjournal.com - Taproot presents `An Enemy of the People'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His play, ``An Enemy of the People'' issues a warning to the highly principled: It may not be worth it.
They are making sick -- very sick -- the people they are supposed to heal.
People harass Stockmann when he walks down the street -- and so on.
www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/184438   (285 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: An Enemy Of The People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Adapted by master playwright Arthur Miller from Henrik Ibsen's groundbreaking 1882 play, An Enemy of the People is a scathing indictment of a corrupt society.
Though "Enemy of the People" aired on National Educational Television (the precursor of PBS) in 1966, Arthur Miller's adaptation of the Ibsen classic feels like an extension of the "golden" era.
In the Norway of the 1880s, an idealistic doctor (James Daly of "Medical Center") discovers that water from a new spring is contaminated with deadly bacteria.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000687EF   (624 words)

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