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4.3.(B) An Enemy of the People, Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828-23 May 1906), was, a Norwegian playwright, theatre director and poet. As one of, the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred, to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential, playwrights of his time. In 1869, he began to write prose plays., Some critics would say that at this point in his life. Ibsen, abandoned poetry and took up realism. In 1877, he began what, became a series of five plays in which he examines the moral, faults of modern society. In order of appearance, the plays were The pillars of society,, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and The Wild Duck., Like all of Ibsen's plays, An Enemy of the People was originally written in, Norwegian and is full of untranslatable wordplay. Specifically, a number of the, character's titles exists only in Norwegian bureaucracy., The holder of the truth, the man who can see the essence of the situation, is, bound to be unpopular, even if the masses catch up with his ideas in due course., That is why Stockmann finally sums up, the oft-quoted line: The strongest man in, the world is he who stands alone!"