Plato Vs Stockman

What factors in a difficult situation make a character favorable? Perhaps it is the one who is out for the greater good of the majority. Sticking to the right judgment is what many are all taught to do, but what if making the right and just judgement only brought rejection from the people. Out of the both leading noble men from An Enemy of the People and A Man for All Seasons, I believe that Dr. Thomas Stockmann is the greatest character because of his persistence and good intentions he carried. In Plato’s work, The Allegory of the Cave, there are people chained in a cave where they are shown shadow depiction of images. While there is a group of people casting these shadows, one of the chained prisoners is visited by someone who convinces him to leave the cave. Once out of
The village’s people are the ones who represent the people in chains because they are vulnerable to the King’s and the newspaper’s word. The mayor the newspaper people represent the people putting the shadows on wall because they’re trying to keep the information about the bathhouses away from the village people. Instead of telling the people the truth, they cast this shadow being that the bath houses are fine. Doing this ensures the power of the King and covers up the corruption going on within the government. The person who escaped this cave was Dr. Thomas Stockmann because he persisted that the information of the contamination of the bathhouses be reported to the citizens. Dr. Thomas Stockmann wants to the people to know of the contamination and that he believes it would be best of the bathhouse were to be closed to a couple of years for reconstruction. Stockmann’s ideas were seen as controversial because the King didn’t his power to be question as well as seen as corrupt. Also his ideas would ruin Morten Kiil’s invested fortune on the bathhouse if the information were to be