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The theme of the story ‘The Enemy’ is that whether a doctor should try to save the life of a person irrespective of the fact that he is wanted by the law or belongs to an enemy country. This dilemma was faced by Dr. Sadao who had to take a hard decision whether he should hand over a seriously wounded prisoner of war to the police as a patriot or he should try to save his life as a doctor.
Dr. Sadao thinks that as a doctor he was trained to try to save the life of a human being as far as he could. So despite the danger of being arrested, he brings the young escaped prisoner of war to his house and operated upon him. Thus the life of the young American boy is saved.
Similarly in the Hindi Bollywood film ‘Achanak’, a criminal wanted by law comes to the clinic of a doctor. If the doctor hands over the criminal to the police, he was sure to die. So he decides to treat him to save his life. He is successful in doing so. But the law takes its own course when he is under police custody.