ABSTRACT
Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov probe environmental conflicts of interest in which morality is pushed aside for economic reasons. Ibsen, in An Enemy of the People (1882), and Chekhov, in Uncle Vanya (1897), portray the defender of the environment as a medical doctor, trained in science. Both are appalled at the harm done to natural resources: money trumps justice. Ibsen and Chekhov attribute plague to moral corruption, as do Thomas Mann in Death in Venice (1912) and Albert Camus in The Plague (1947).
