Character of Morten Kiil

MORTEN KIIL --IMPERSONAL
Morten kiil is first presented to us when he comes to enquire of Dr. Stockmann’s discovery in act II. Though at point, he doesn’t understand the implication the discovery would have on his tanneries, he does not believe that these ‘animals’ are harmful. He however goes on ahead to encourage Dr. Stockmann to ‘pull their legs’.

He doesn’t seem to have any sympathy for the town’s authorities and world really enjoy seeing the conflict and assuming it as a revenge for having been hounded from the town council.
    When he later comes to stage in Act V, he has fully understood that he’s partly to blame for the impurities affecting the baths. He takes the money he would have given as inheritance to Mrs. Stockmann, Petra and the children and uses it to buy shares in the baths. In doing this, he intends to arm-twist Dr. Stockmann to denounce the research he had done and remove his name from the list of those to be blamed. He says in (Pg 100) “the whole of money is invested in the baths now. And now I just want to see whether you are quite stark, running mad, Thomas! If you still make out that these animals and other nasty things f that sort come from my tannery. It will be exactly as if you were to fray broad strips of skin from Katherine’s  body and Petra’s and the boys’  and  no decent  man would do that unless be  were insane .
An impersonal person is one who can be considered lacking in human warmth and sympathy. We find such is Morten kiil who does not sympathize with Dr. Stockmann or his family but goes ahead to try to arm-twist Dr. Stockmann, and in the long run, deny his family the inheritance he would   have given them,.