In the play An Enemy of the People, Dr. Stockman wanted to point out his discovery to the public that the main economic center, the bath, was being poisoned and it was harming people’s health, however when he was giving the speech of what he had done he also talked about how the leaders in the government were corrupted and the people in the town were too blind to see the truth which angered the crowd. The public marked him as the enemy of the people and the truth was being upside down. And what Dr. Stockman had done could be described as rebellion due to Camus’s perspective of revolting.
The rebellion began with Dr. Stockman thought there might be something wrong with the water in baths so he decided to do further research on it, and the conclusion by the university confirmed his former assertion. He talked about it with his mayor brother, but the mayor persuaded him not to show it to the public …show more content…
When someone tried to argue with him, he then turned the target towards schools and the education level of the public, which angered the crowd. As a result, instead of the government took no action on this issue and the factories continued to poisoned the bath, Stockman was the one who had been blamed during this speech. It is hard to judge whether the rebellion is successful or not, but it is obvious that the speech itself was destroyed. On one hand we could say the rebellion damaged Stockman’s family, he received the title of the enemy of people and people all around the town came to attack his house, it was hard for he and his family to live in this town any longer. But if any person in the speech was being illuminated like Horster, then we could say this rebellion was kind of successful because it had achieved Stockman’s originally purpose that was to let the public see the