
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 12 - The Modern Drama
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The Death of a Doctor
Heinrich ibsen's play, The Poisoning of the Baths, is about a doctor who discovers that baths are being poisoned. But he soon learns that dividends and profits are concerned neither with health nor principles. Even the reformers of the town withdraw their support from the reckless idealist. These plays of ibsen constitute a dynamic force which is gradually dissipating. He not merely undermines existing pillars, indeed, he builds an ideal future based on the sovereignty of the individual within a sympathetic social environment. Poverty also necessitates charitable organizations that thrive off the very thing they are trying to destroy. poverty makes weak people, slavish puny crime of christianity,. bernard
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