Camus Albert's 'The Plague': A Response to Part Five

1. (Inferences) At first, when I read this chapter, I didn’t understand what it had to do with anything that was happening in the novel. However, when I read it for the second time I noticed that it had a hidden message. I suspect that this line is supposed to make the main character (Tally) think about the world she lives in. In this quote it says the “flowers”, but I interpret it to mean the pretties. The flowers are very beautiful just like the pretty people, but they both choke everything around them. The pretty people make the uglies feel unpleasant about themselves. They

The plague affected people not only on a physical level but a mental one as well. The mental health of the citizens of Oran was amongst the plague's many victims, it suffered of exhaustion as well as being forced to handle mental confrontations. When the citizens dealt with these issues, some people lost their capacity to love as intently, but overall the general capacity of people to uphold their devotion remained resilient to the challenges the plague provided.

A book of horrors, fear and death. “The Plague” is a book by Albert Camus which weaves these emotions and events into one suspenseful tale. Each paragraph and section is written and structured in such a way as to give the reader insight into the feelings of the victims of the plague, and to show somewhat of a theme. The passage from section 4, part 4, line number 1 to line number 35 gives us a glimpse of the melancholy of the people of Oran to their dead loved ones to the extent that they do not attend All Souls' Day, for they were thinking of them too much as it was. Albert Camus fills this passage with figurative devices, including, diction, personification, pathetic fallacy, metaphors, irony and a turning point. The first two paragraphs

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

“Ring Around the Rosie” is actually an account of the times when the epidemic reigned. The familiar line stating “ring around the rosie” is a reference to the swollen, red rash that people affected by the plague would develop, specifically around the eyes. “A pocket full of posies” refers to how people would carry around fragrant flowers to mask the lingering smell of death that was so familiar. Some herbs were also believed to ward off the illness. The third line “ashes, ashes” refers to people feeding the ill ashes in order to expel the illness.

The plague terrified people with its symptoms and death toll, so the people gave them names to

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”

The Great Plague was a pandemic that killed many people, and for the people from the olden times the plague equaled painful death; it was torture. As a result, many people categorize ‘the Great Plague’ as a catastrophe that had caused huge damage in Europe, but without this epidemic, we many not have had substantial changes that lead us to the modern day we have now.

Some things are not as they seem. “Ring Around the Rosie” seems like a pleasant children’s nursery rhyme, but many believe it is actually a grisly song about the Black Death in Europe. The Black Death was a serial outbreak of the plague during the 1300s. During the Black Death, more than 20 million Europeans died. One-third of the population of the British Isles died from the plague. Moreover, one-third of the population of France died in the first year alone, and 50% of the people in France’s major cities died. Catastrophic death rates like these were common across all of Europe. However, just like the poem “Ring Around the Rosie”, the true effects of the Black Death differed from what many people believed. Though tragic, the Black

The plague was a disease that hit in 1348. It took countless of lives. This plague effects a lot of the people’s behaviors and how they were thinking about everything. It was the scariest thing that had happen. Countless of lives dead during this time because this disease spread so quickly. As this disease hit the people within three days after it hit a curtain area most of the population died. Depends on your body some could live longer than others, but most often it will hit them and they will die fast. In order, not to get sick, they had to move outside of the city limits, eat small amounts of food and don’t let anybody come in or leave. Another cure for this sickness was to not let it get to you and by laughing. The reverse from the law, both God and men fell apart because the

Characterization and point of view are two very important tools that authors use in writing fiction. They both interoperate with one another to advance the plot and contribute significantly to the meaning. An author’s choice of point of view can reveal the purpose, strategy or intentions that he or she aimed for as well. One such author that wrote his fiction with evident strategy is Daniel Defoe in his work A Journal Of The Plague Year. This story is about a man recording the events and observations of the plague “visitation,” as the narrator calls it, to London during the

But at the end, “the detailed scenes H. F. describes are his observations, not his experiences” (Kelly 55). So, by being more of a witness than a victim of the plague, he brings a lot of details to the story, which is his way of persuading his audience, by the use of Logos. For example, “As near as I may judge, it was about 40 foot in length, and about 15 or 16 foot broad; and at the time I first looked at it, about nine foot deep” (Defoe 2302). For some authors like Juengel, the excessive amount of details into the story goes more towards “eccentric and macabre” But, “What does the plague mean? ... Literature has reflected the tendency to make plague a vehicle for allegory, and the interpretive bent is usually religious: plague is the punishment of a sinful people by an angry god”

The Plague (1991) was originally written in French by writer/philosopher, Albert Camus. This translated work reveals the lives of the citizens of a large Algerian port city. The town of Oran traps its citizens, as the walls close due to an outbreak of a disease referred to as the plague. The text centers on physician, Dr. Riuex, as he and his colleagues attempt to save the plagued town. The setting that Camus chose for his writing plays a large role in the events of the text. Using various critical analysis, it is evident that if the setting had been different, many character profiles and main issues covered in the novel would have been significantly changed. The setting helps to exhibit many themes that Camus conveys throughout The Plague.

A Journal of the Plague Year is a first person account of what it was like living through the times of the plague. It recollects stories and other accounts of plague times heard by and collected by the Defoe from other involved individuals. Explains many aspects before, during, and after the plague of their ways of life and culture. Tells of tales of survivors of the plague but mostly off different tales of deaths and how they died in many outrageous and tragic ways of people killing their families, themselves, or masses of people. The whole journal is filled with collections of stories, but also with charts showing the deaths in different parishes and how they change as the plague raged on. In the end, it tells how life went back to normal for London and Defoe and his family.

Socrates, a Greek philosopher, once said that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (Apology 38b). Like Socrates, Albert Camus believed that a man needs to live meaningfully.