Do you think the doctor’s final solution to the problem was the best possible one in the circumstances?

Solution

Dr. Sadao was a very careful, considerate and a trained person who can adopt himself according to the circumstances. When the enemy is being brought to the house, Dr. Sadao says “The best thing that we would be to put him back into the sea.” But Dr. Sadao does not take this view and rather tries his best to help the wounded man at the cost of his life. As a doctor he has been morally trained not to let a man die if he can help it. It is this person who acts appropriately well in time. At the same time he takes him to his house, treats and gives shelter the enemy. His wife cooperates in this matter though the domestic servants leave the house and the maid Yumi refuses to wash the patient.

Dr. Sadao is aware that he is helping an enemy. He is in a strict mood to get rid of him at the earliest possible. He thinks to hand him over to the police but he canot do so due to love for humanity. Further he points out everything before the General who in turn promises to get the enemy assassinated through his private person. But that does not happen. Dr. Sadao is in a fix what to do. Ultimately he resorts to the best possible solution available at the point of time under the available circumstances. After treatment he helps the man escape in a boat and ensures his freedom. In this way Dr. Sadao gets rid of the enemy without having killed him. He rises above all and varied narrow prejudices and acts in a true humanitarian manner.

Some More Questions From The Enemy Chapter

Will Hana help the wounded man and wash him herself?

What will Dr. Sadao and his wife do with the man?

What will Dr. Sadao do to get rid of the man?
Or

How was the plan of the prisoner’s escape executed in the story, “The Enemy”.

There are moments in life when we have to make hard choice between our souls as private individuals and as citizens with a sense of national loyalties. Discuss with reference to the story you have just read.

Dr. Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?

How would you explain the reluctance of the soldier to leave the doctor’s house even when he knew as he could not stay there without risk to the doctor and himself?

What explains the attitude of the General in the matter of the enemy soldiers? Was it human consideration, lack of national loyalty, dediction of duty or simply-self-absorption?

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