Plagues

Gilbert. The Plague. New York: Vintage International, 1991. Print. Written in 1948, Albert Camus’ The Plague is a study of human behaviour in a time of widespread crisis caused by plague. Based on a modern city named Oran in Algeria, where plague which was troubling the people for almost a year, rises suddenly killing people each day. The novel follows Bernard Rieux, a doctor in the city of Oran, who becomes alarmed on noticing number of rats dying in the streets before the plague started killing

The Plague of Athens, taking place in 429 B.C.E., is the first mass killing plague known to historians today. However, this doesn’t mean that it wasn’t as dangerous as plagues later on in history. In total 100,000 people died which is equivalent to more than one-third of the Greece population. In the book “The Plague”, the city of Oran is overrun by a deadly disease. In both the Plague of Athens and the novel “The Plague” by Albert Camus, similarities occurred such as the diffusion of the disease

meaningless in the past, until plague completely remodels their lives and creates new values and meanings. Just like coal becomes diamonds under enormous pressure, the disaster reshapes Camus’ characters into new people, both individual and social. For almost a year the epidemic isolates the city from the rest of world, and the fates of every citizen of Oran become intervened in unique aspects of their lives. Their very existence comes into question. Subject “The Plague” has been used by many writers

The Plague, there is a small town call Oran and ever day life is simple, until one day a man's patient falls gravely ill. The patient has symptoms the doctor has never seen before and thus ends up dying. This one person's death is the starting point of something dreadful that would soon fall upon them. Albert Camus uses the main narrator, Rieux, to show the context of the novel and the effects of the plague on the townspeople. In the beginning of the novel the townspeople do not see the plague as

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

A visiting plague in the town of Oran provides the perfect situation for Camus to analyze the effects of isolation that people feel during a traumatic event. Citizens of the town isolate themselves from each other as they fight their own personal battles, and the city isolates itself from the outside world to prevent the spread of the disease. One major effect of personal isolation that Camus emphasizes is the struggle to communicate an experience with others. The language barrier that people come

The Bubonic Plague killed over twenty-five million people during the Elizabethan Era (David Perlin, PhD and Ann Cohen). “The origins of the Black Death can be traced back to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia in the 1320’s (Ed. Geoffrey J. et al).” The Bubonic Plague has picked up many nicknames. For example, it has been called “The Black Death,” and “one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse” (Ed. Geoffrey J. et al). The Bubonic Plague was very prominent during its time with many people’s lives being

Black Death The Bubonic Plague was likely the first semi-global pandemic that rightfully merits the name which means affecting all people. The period of time in which the disease wreaked havoc was also known as the “Black Death." Alexandere Yersin was a French bacteriologist and discovered the bacteria in Hong Kong This diabolical disease is characterized by both positive and negative outcomes for the few people that managed to survive the plague. The total number of people who died subsequently

The plague was a catastrophic time in history, and happened more than once. It took millions and millions of people’s lives. It destroyed cities and countries, and many people suffered from it. What is the plague? The plague or referred to as the Black Death, according to the CDC (2015), “is a disease that affects humans and other mammals and caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling

The Black Plague is a disease that spread around the world and killed many people. There are three different types of the plague; Bubonic, Septicemic, and Pneumonic (Dugdale). The Black Plague effected Europe greatly and effected there way of life. It came to Europe around the 1300s and had a great impact on society in the 1500s (History). Important parts of the black plague are the different types of the plague, how they spread, treatments for them, and effects the plague had on Europe in the 1500s