The plague is slowly infiltrating the thoughts of the citizens of Oran one by one just as the physical illness has. We have begun to see the psychological sense of the plague through the portrayal of Rieux’s thoughts constantly consumed with the dying rats and the journal of Tarrou filled with narratives of the plague intertwined with normal everyday journal entries. From the beginning of the novel, we see the plague, more specifically the rats, consuming the life of Rieux through his constant interaction with them in his day to day life. The most notable event of the consumption of his brain with the plague is when he goes to check on Cottard. The narrator states that, “in the intervals of the man’s breathing he [Rieux] seemed to hear the
Rieux and the volunteer sanitary squads are in many ways the heroes of the story. They continued to fight against the plague despite being beyond hope of ending it themselves. Their response to this crisis (and the ensuing suffering and death) is the main focus of the book and this response must be shown if the theme is to be accurately
When this book is set, the plague was thought to have been caused by witches and not by bacteria that was very contagious, and caught from rats coming from the Netherlands. This thought process of witches causing the plague brought up a trend of
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.
The Great Plague killed nearly half of the European population during the fourteenth century. A plague is a widespread illness. The Illness was also known as the “Black Death”. Most of the European people believed the plague was the beginning of the end of the world. They were scarcely equipped and unready for what was to be entailed. It was by far one of the worst epidemics yet to be seen in those times.
From the reading “The Black Death”, the descriptions that stood out the most were the effects that the plague had on the animals. As described by the author, the plague effected both humans and animals. In paragraph seven, this point was emphasized in very grave details. The author stated that “One day, for instance, the rags of a pauper who had died from the disease were thrown into the street, where they attracted the attention of two pigs. In their wonted fashion, the pigs first of all gave the rags a thorough mauling with their snouts, after which they took them between their teeth and shook them against their cheeks. And within a short time they began to writhe as though they had been poisoned, then they both dropped dead to the ground”
As time unfolded, the plague became unbearable because it was now being spread from one person to another quickly especially if one had the flea host within them. The plague caused fear amongst the people and resulted in economic and political downfall during this period. This is because it was very challenging for a person to work affected with the plague. The reason is that once one became affected with the plague, spots painful red spots appeared on an individual’s body that turned black with
The Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history. It was first discovered 550 years later in the 1800s by Alexandre Yersin, a french biologist. In his honor, the plague was named Yersinia Pestis. The plague traveled in two major ways. Yersin discovered that it traveled by infected fleas; the flea would attempt to feed on a human or animal and would then regurgitate the disease into the new host, further spreading the illness. Urban areas across Europe were populous with rats, which were one of the main hosts of the plague. These rodents spread the Black Death throughout cities in days. The unaffected still were not safe if they did not come in contact with an infected flea or rat. The plague also traveled pneumonically, or through the air. It caused large boils full of blood and pus, which would pop and spread. Another symptom was coughing, which was one of the many ways of proliferation. The disease eventually spread throughout Europe and killed a third of it’s population. It’s wrath caused many shortages, loss in hope, riots, and even some good things, such as many changes in art, science, and education. Therefore, the Black Death was one of the most life-changing pandemics in history.
The Plague and the Book of Jobs How there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?" Then Satan answered the LORD, "Does Job fear God for nought? Hast thou not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face." And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand." (Source: Chapter 1, 6-12, http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/RsvBJob.html) The report is geared towards establishing the presence of hope in the face of extreme suffering. The report argues that suffering should be seen as more of a means to correct one’s flaws and develop fully than to be seen as something negative. My support is therefore for the way of life adopted by the doctor in Albert Camus’ book, The Plague. The report will first present a brief outline of the two stories and then put forward their similarities and differences. Finally the report
The black plague took thirty to fifty percent of Europe’s population from the years 1347 to 1351. For many people, it was a devastating loss for Europe’s population and Europe would never be the same after this tragic disaster. Many people roamed the streets of Europe delirious from unbearable pain, unable to keep food down, and overcome with fever. Citizens of Europe were covered in black, oozing boils that were unbelievably painful. These black, painful boils are where the plague got its name, “The Black Plague”. The Black Plague spread through Europe, killed half of the population, and had terrifying symptoms.
We have heard from various reports, including a fictional story by an Italian, Boccaccio , about its terrible effects. This story described that this virulent disease could only have been sent by an angry God. It described scenes that created terror in the streets here. The plague sickness begins with just a bit of swelling under the armpits or the groin would quickly grow to the size of an egg. Soon there would be similar boils all over the body, and these would spread across the body, the family and village.
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.
Death is everywhere, the plague caused lots of it. The seven rooms represent the seven deadly sins because the story’s tone is too eerie to be talking about the positive things in life and not the negatives. The first room represents the sin sloth. The color blue is very relaxing and calm. When thinking of the color blue I think of things like the sky and having no worries, it doesn’t make me think of work at all.
The Plague (French, La Peste) is a novel written by Albert Camus that is about an epidemic of bubonic plague. The Plague is set in a small Mediterranean town in North Africa called Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, one of the main characters, describes it as an ugly town. Oran’s inhabitants are boring people who appear to live, for the most part, habitual lives. The main focus of the town is money. “…everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits. Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, 'doing business’” (Camus 4). The citizens’ unawareness of life’s riches and pleasures show their susceptibility to the oncoming plague.
In a quiet town in the middle ages a disease spread throughout the town. Everyone was getting sick and dying the disease was called !!THE BLACK DEATH!! (The Plague ).There were many doctors but they didn’t know how to cure this illness, they came up with some crazy ideas to try out on their patients, everyone thought that they would work… they never worked sadly. Even though they never worked people still tried it and that ended up killing them.
What an interesting chain of events that has occurred in The Plague by Albert Camus. Right from the beginning, the reader is sucked into this town of clear denial when a rampant plague hits. It is very interesting how the townsfolk react to this type of trauma. Many people are in denial, simply not approaching the problem directly. For example, “the local press, so lavish the news about the rats...