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Environment
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Human Rights
Dr Tom Kerns
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Discussion Questions for
Henrik Ibsen's Enemy of the People
- In this play
some of the characters deal with the moral question of the town's responsibility
for polluting
the
waters
in a teleological manner and others in a deontological manner.
Choose one character from each side and explain how they exemplify
their
moral approach.
- Provide a
title for each scene in the play (two scenes in act one, two in act two
and
one in act three)
- What are some of the more important human rights standards that, in your judgment, seem to be at issue in this drama?
- Explain how you see those rights being dealt with in this drama.
- Do you think any rights are being compromised? If so, which rights?
- If some rights are compromised, how do you think the characters should have dealt with those rights.
- This play also says something about obstacles faced by environmental activists.
- How would you describe the main obstacle(s) faced by activists in this play?
- Have you seen anything like this in the environmental situation you are studying for your project?
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