The Plague

The Black Death was a plague that struck in Europe in 1347 and was made worse by its rapid spread and the previous famines in Europe. The first records of the plague were in central Asia, specifically Mongolia. The Plague moved closer to Europe through trade routes because plague-carrying fleas would create homes in the fur of ship rats, and many ships began to carry the plague. Eventually the Plague spread to Europe because one of the 12 vessels traveling from Crimea brought it to Sicily in October

Alex Chaisson Mrs. Kilburn English 2 CP 22 February 2016 The Plague and War The plague was one of the most horrific times in history. Lives were lost and the feelings of freedom was taken away from the people. This infectious illness was forced upon people and made them turn to unusual measures. These actions by the people and the spread of the disease relates to the happening in war. However the book The Plague by Albert Camus conveys a different understanding of war, specifically the Nazi

Plague Narrative Sam walked down the corpse ridden street. The smell would have been unbearad past an old abandoned tavern as a horse drawn cart hobbled by full of reeking bodies. The Plague had started 37 years ago when the gallys had arrived at Italy’s port. When the Plague hit, great panic almost spread as fast as the Plague itself. People adopted insane Ideas of how this happened and what to do. Even though Sam lived at a small town he had heard rumors of a exceptionally psychotic group called

During 1348- 1349, a devastating sickness swept over all of Western Europe that wiped out about half of the population. The Black Death, also known as The Plague and the Bubonic Plague, killed thousands over the span of two summers. The Black Death was caused by the bacteria Y. Pestis, which normally lives dormant in a flea's stomach. However, when a flea bites a rat, the rat becomes infected, which eventually leads to a human being infected. Since rats had a high abundance in 1348-1349, the disease

The black death is believed to have began in central Asia in the mid-thirteen hundreds, and killed millions. After it spread across Asia it was then carried down the Silk Road reaching Crimea by 1343. Scientists believe that the plague was carried by fleas on rodents, such as rats, being normal passengers traveling on merchant ships across the Mediterranean. The fleas were believed to have bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which is commonly present in the flea population on ground rodents in certain

unstoppable plague that strikes the town causing many to die at the hand of nature’s most merciless creation. Albert Camus, in his novel The Plague, demonstrates that life is absurd and meaningless through the random deaths of the towns people and the seemingly unstoppable plague. Doctor Bernard Rieux, in Camus’ novel realizes that the situation is absurd, but he continues to do what needs to be done. Rieux’s job as a doctor

In the beginning of The Plague, Father Paneloux emotes the essence of the knight of faith. The knight of faith is rooted in the world. He is never stuck questioning descions; he keeps moving through life. The knight of faith never questions the bad times in life. The knight of faith stand firm in his beliefs. ”But to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second looks as if one were standing and walking , to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in pedestrian-

Camus’ The Plague and the German occupation of France Camus's Novel explores the effects of a plague on the small town of Oran. However, the author’s real intentions are to portray the evil of Nazism that infects France near the end of World War II. The focus of the text is not how or why the plague has entered the town, but the impact it has on the cultural, physical, and emotional reactions of the people. France also experiences similar “symptoms” as the figurative characters of The Plague in that

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

Albert Camus uses the narrative of The Plague to impose catastrophic and absurd suffering upon a town and examine how its inhabitants behave. Through the divergent characterization of a humanist Bernard Rieux and a pious Paneloux, Camus explores human responses to the inevitable problem of evil in order to insinuate that while enduring despair, reason will always win out over faith. Bernard Rieux, the main character (and narrator unbeknownst to the readers until the end), is Camus’ prominent advocate