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cultural attributes that are both widely practiced within Algeria. This idea of cultural contrast can be seen in The Plague, written by the influential philosopher, Albert Camus. This philosophical fiction is set in the French-Algerian port city of Oran, sometime in the 1940s, and hosts many cultural aspects that contrast those that are widely practiced in Algeria. The novel

What would you do if a plague epidemic infected your city? In the book, The Plague by Albert Camus, a great sickness contaminates the city or Oran and numerous rats hurry into the open to die. Eventually the authorities put the whole city under quarantine, which angered citizens. The story begins with Dr. Bernard Rieux discovering a dead rat on the ground with blood spilling out of it’s mouth, then he finds many more lying out in the open. He assumes that either hunger has driven the rodents out

The Power of Language in The Plague In his novel The Plague, Albert Camus presents a pseudo-historical documentary of a plague that confines and controls the citizens of Oran within their city gates. The plague possesses the power of life and death over the people, as it determines which citizens will face their death or those who work to stop death. These latter men, personified by the character's of Rieux, Grand, and Tarrau, each struggle endlessly to master the plague's power over their

“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.” -Albert Camus, The Fall In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, the author utilizes three main characters: the narrator, Tarrou, and Father Paneloux to reflect on the primary views of religion and science. The narrator, Rieux, most closely resembles Camus’ own perspective while Tarrou and Father Paneloux represent the radical views on the two opposite

situation--sick, exiled, and restricted--but also the European conflict. Bernard further elaborates that Camus wrote La Peste with the plague as an obvious reference to “the kind of imprisonment [. . .] the Germans imposed on occupied France” (165).” Oran is cut off from the outside world, which is equivalent to France; the different attitudes of the

Shaver 1 “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.” -Albert Camus, The Fall In Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, the author employs three main characters -- the narrator, Tarrou, and Father Paneloux -- to represent extremist views on religion and science in culture. The narrator, Rieux, most closely resembles Camus’ own perspective while Tarrou and Father Paneloux represent the radical views

Before the housing development began, Oran Park was originally a raceway. The raceway was operational from February 1962 to January 2010. The raceway held motoring events that were popular to the entire state. In addition to the raceway, there was also farmland. Before the development occurred, dairy farming was a major use for this land. The dairy farm was then demolished in order to put the race track in. On this land in the early 1900s there was also a trotting track which was horses raced

he Role of Setting in the Plague 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

In The Plague by Albert Camus a town called Oran became suddenly taken over by an epidemic “the plague”, killing off thousands of people. One character greatly affected by the plague goes by the name Rambert (A journalist from Paris just doing some research). The plague dramatically changed the way Rambert thought because three types of environmental characteristics that surrounded him: Death, despair and isolation. Therefore, these three characteristics showed the dramatic effects an epidemic can

small city called Oran. In this city the seasons rarely change and everyone settles for what they have and demonstrate almost a complete feeling of contentedness in their everyday lives. In the novel he also shows that the saying “you don’t know what you have until it’s gone,” may ring true in many cases. Camus shows that people show the actions of contentedness in their ways and don’t realize what they have until time has run out by explaining the functions of the people in Oran, showing