There is much to be said about Ibsen. I want to focus on one of his plays, An Enemy of the People (1882), which Ibsen wrote partly (or, probably more accurately, very much directly) in response to criticism that he received for his earlier play Ghosts (1881). That play centered on some issues that nineteenth century Norwegian society couldn't much appreciate—things like suffering from hereditary syphilis, sibling incest, and whether or not to opt for euthanasia.