Theme of Love for Money and Power in An Enemy of the People

Drawing illustrations from Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of  The People, write an essay in support of the following statement: “ The Love for money and power can make one inhuman”.
-    A general statement on the effect of the love for money and power.
-    A definition of love for money and power. It must be tied to the question
-    Accept any other relevant introduction be it general or contextual.
Content
The candidate should use different characters whose lover for money or power makes them act inhumanly.
    (i)    The Mayor: Peter Stockmann
-     His love for power makes him manipulate the pressmen who end up rejecting the Dr. Stockmails report. They instead publish his.
    -    He doctor Stockmann’s his brother.
-    He claims that the residents will pay for the relaying of the pipes a process which will take two years.
    (ii)    The Pressmen(Hovstad , Billing and Aslaken)
-    They withdraw their support for Dr. Stockmann because they feared for their newspaper as well as the payments for they would have to make as citizens for the relaying of the pipes .
-    They later visit the  doctor to strike a deal with him.
(iii)    Morten kill
-    His tannery being the major pollutant he urges the doctor to manipulate the report.
-    He buys the shares from the baths cheaply hoping to sell them later expensively when the doctor his son – in – law ‘ owns up’ that he was wrong.
(iv)    The town council
-    They are money – minded. When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the baths are contaminated and comes up with a plan of relaying the pipes, they sack him.
-    They would rather risk the health of the town’s people than tell the truth about the baths.
Accept any other relevant well illustrated point.