Messianism and the Third Kingdom: Intimations of the Twentieth Century in Ibsen’s <i>An Enemy of the People</i>
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ABSTRACT: In his own estimation, Emperor and Galilean (1873) was Ibsen’s major work, the one play most important to him. Yet it was right after the completion of this ten-act two-play cycle that he turned away from epic-style Romantic plays and began writing his more famous realist dramas. This article argues that the central theme of Emperor and Galilean, the dawning of a new age, was picked up again in his 1882 play An Enemy of the People. But whereas the historical material of the earlier play guaranteed the protagonist Julian’s defeat, in An Enemy of the People Ibsen has consciously created a messiah-like figure, in Dr. Thomas Stockmann, to succeed where Julian had failed. In fact, in his relentless pursuit of the Millennium, and his single-minded fanaticism and unrestrained desire to cleanse the world of “parasites,” Stockmann bears an uncanny resemblance to the messianic figures of the twentieth century, most notably Hitler.
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